Series Thread: Moving along to San Diego May 8-9

[DT LUNA]

Not much to lose and everything to gain. Let's win a series.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

The bizarre "2 there, 2 here" series with a west coast NL team.

 

[DT LUNA]

The bizarre "2 there, 2 here" series with a west coast NL team.

Yeah I just grouped them together. Hope that's ok.

 

[DT LUNA]

@romeo212000 please delete may 10,11 from thread

 

[Bmurph]

National writer ranks the start of Mike Napoli's season among the worst in baseball | SportsDay

Rangers have too many of the same guys on this team it appears. The mostly all or nothing, HR or bust guys wont get it done, with that many of them in the order every day. Need more OBP, guys that can hit for avg and will take a walk, spread through the lineup.

 

[donaldson79]

Yeah I just grouped them together. Hope that's ok.

Totally unacceptable. YOU'RE FIRED! Clean out your desk, turn in your computer and fob, and we'll get back with on Wed to discuss your severance package. ha ha ha

 

[saddles]

I was thinking the two series like these two were put together into one thread last year.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Yeah I just grouped them together. Hope that's ok.

I think we were OK. Same team over all 4 games. I certainly wasn't meaning to be critical of the thread title.

 

[saddles]

I was thinking the two series like these two were put together into one thread last year.

Yes, we did. Here is a link to the thread last year for the Colorado home and away series. All 4 games were placed into one thread.

Series Thread: - 2 there, 2 here with the Rangers and Rockies 8/8-8/11

 

[DT LUNA]

I think we were OK. Same team over all 4 games. I certainly wasn't meaning to be critical of the thread title.

Did not take it as critical. All's good

 

[saddles]

Evan has a terrible idea here. The Rangers have derailed the development of enough young starters already over the past few years. Let's don't do the same to Sadzeck.

 

[saddles]

Rangers’ start is on GM Jon Daniels, not Beltre

The idea the American League West was going to remain the worst division in baseball for a third straight year has caught up with the local baseball club and its GM/president. When the team was winning the AL West, Jon Daniels gets the credit. As the team’s main baseball guy, he gets the blame, too.


The Houston Astros have returned to the club that it was in 2015, and our Rangers have the second-least good record in the American League. They are just eight games back of first place. But they are only 4 1/2 games back in the wild card standings.


Don’t bother selling the line that things would be different if Adrian Beltre was on the field rather than the disabled list with a bum calf. We bought a $175 million payroll product on the belief it was good when, in fact, it is just highly paid.


They can’t pitch it very well. Their hitting stinks. And they can’t catch it too good, either. Other than that, though ... lot of positives.


Their team batting average of .220 ranks 29th in MLB. But they do rank fifth overall in strikeouts, so that’s something.


Their team ERA is 4.27, good for 17th in MLB. Their bullpen ERA is 5.50, 27th in MLB.


And the team’s fielding percentage of .977 is 26th in the major leagues. Their 24 errors are tied for the second most in baseball.


With a tick under five months of baseball remaining in the season, there is, of course, plenty of time. And there is recent precedent for a reversal of play, too.


In 2015, Yu Darvish was on the shelf for the season when he required Tommy John surgery during spring training. On May 3, 2015, the team dropped to 8-16 and 9 1/2 games out of first place. That team eventually reached .500 on Aug. 4 and went on to finish first in the AL West with 88 wins.


But that club also acquired Cole Hamels on July 31, and then made its push.


This team doesn’t have the type of pieces to make that type of acquisition even if the deal presented itself. And now Hamels is out for two months .... sorry, eight weeks. Big difference.

My feeling before the start of the regular season was that this was, at best, an 85-win team that could contend for a wild card, and that the AL West was going to catch up, which it has.


There is plenty of time and countless games remaining for the Rangers to get their garbage together. We have seen, repeatedly, that how a team starts is not an accurate reflection of how it will finish. But, right now, this club stinks.

 

[DT LUNA]

Mac Engel was on Fox 4 last night. He was not shy laying the blame on JD for the team's dilemma.
Anyone want to comment?

 

[RevSader]

Mac Engel was on Fox 4 last night. He was not shy laying the blame on JD for the team's dilemma.
Anyone want to comment?

Mac Engel is an eternal pessimist. In this particular piece Bennie posted, he makes a claim and then does nothing to lay out any proof as to why he is wright. That's pretty bad writing in my opinion. He seems to think Texas only won back to back AL West division titles because the AL West stunk the last two years...It's not much better this year.

 

[RevSader]

Evan has a terrible idea here. The Rangers have derailed the development of enough young starters already over the past few years. Let's don't do the same to Sadzeck.

You bring him up to start games or not at all. Same thing with Mendez.

 

[RevSader]

Rangers’ start is on GM Jon Daniels, not Beltre

The idea the American League West was going to remain the worst division in baseball for a third straight year has caught up with the local baseball club and its GM/president. When the team was winning the AL West, Jon Daniels gets the credit. As the team’s main baseball guy, he gets the blame, too.


The Houston Astros have returned to the club that it was in 2015, and our Rangers have the second-least good record in the American League. They are just eight games back of first place. But they are only 4 1/2 games back in the wild card standings.


Don’t bother selling the line that things would be different if Adrian Beltre was on the field rather than the disabled list with a bum calf. We bought a $175 million payroll product on the belief it was good when, in fact, it is just highly paid.


They can’t pitch it very well. Their hitting stinks. And they can’t catch it too good, either. Other than that, though ... lot of positives.


Their team batting average of .220 ranks 29th in MLB. But they do rank fifth overall in strikeouts, so that’s something.


Their team ERA is 4.27, good for 17th in MLB. Their bullpen ERA is 5.50, 27th in MLB.


And the team’s fielding percentage of .977 is 26th in the major leagues. Their 24 errors are tied for the second most in baseball.


With a tick under five months of baseball remaining in the season, there is, of course, plenty of time. And there is recent precedent for a reversal of play, too.


In 2015, Yu Darvish was on the shelf for the season when he required Tommy John surgery during spring training. On May 3, 2015, the team dropped to 8-16 and 9 1/2 games out of first place. That team eventually reached .500 on Aug. 4 and went on to finish first in the AL West with 88 wins.


But that club also acquired Cole Hamels on July 31, and then made its push.


This team doesn’t have the type of pieces to make that type of acquisition even if the deal presented itself. And now Hamels is out for two months .... sorry, eight weeks. Big difference.

My feeling before the start of the regular season was that this was, at best, an 85-win team that could contend for a wild card, and that the AL West was going to catch up, which it has.


There is plenty of time and countless games remaining for the Rangers to get their garbage together. We have seen, repeatedly, that how a team starts is not an accurate reflection of how it will finish. But, right now, this club stinks.

I kept waiting for him to have suggested things Jon Daniels should have done differently, but I guess he has no ideas of his own...

 

[Bmurph]

Evan has a terrible idea here. The Rangers have derailed the development of enough young starters already over the past few years. Let's don't do the same to Sadzeck.

yeah I think if you are gonna bring him up to get him some exposure, then you don't stash him in the BP where he gets very few reps. Let him come up and make a start or something if you need him and then back down

 

[Bmurph]

Mac Engel is an eternal pessimist. In this particular piece Bennie posted, he makes a claim and then does nothing to lay out any proof as to why he is wright. That's pretty bad writing in my opinion. He seems to think Texas only won back to back AL West division titles because the AL West stunk the last two years...It's not much better this year.

Probably stinks just as bad or worse really, now with the Rangers not being much of a contender. Really all the teams aside from the Astros have taken hits to their SP due to injuries and they weren't all that great in that regard in the first place.

If youre gonna bitch and place blame then you can at least offer ideas or suggestions or your 2 cents to make it relevant. Hell have some accountability so you can take the heat when the shit you come up with doesnt lend to much success either. We at least do that on here ourselves. Hell even Nightcrawler offers his input when he bitches about shit all the time.

 

[RevSader]

Probably stinks just as bad or worse really, now with the Rangers not being much of a contender. Really all the teams aside from the Astros have taken hits to their SP due to injuries and they weren't all that great in that regard in the first place.

If youre gonna bitch and place blame then you can at least offer ideas or suggestions or your 2 cents to make it relevant. Hell have some accountability so you can take the heat when the shit you come up with doesnt lend to much success either. We at least do that on here ourselves. Hell even Nightcrawler offers his input when he bitches about shit all the time.

That's why Engel is just a drive by critic to me. Also he has really really shitty opinions on Yu Darvish.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

That article was trash.

Jon Daniels isn't a member of the coaching staff. The pitching and hitting deficiencies do not fall on JD. The biggest thing that I think JD should have done differently right now is not signed Napoli. But even with that, that's one problem in a large group of problems.