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

[Bmurph]

get the ball down AJ

 

[donaldson79]

WAs me

Good pick up sir.

 

[romeo212000]

I knew AJ at Coors was gonna be bad.

 

[jta4437]

Arenado kills us everytime it seems

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Yep throw away game.

 

[Bmurph]

altitude isn't going to be Griffin's friend today, this one may be ugly for him

 

[WilltheThrill]

Playing from behind. Again. I can't remember the exact %, but I read the other day that since July 1 the Rangers' opponent has scored first in almost every single game. The number is staggering when you consider that for a league average team that number should be somewhat close to 50% over a large sample size (and the Rangers are clearly better than league average, or should be).

 

[WilltheThrill]

So is Chirinos every 3rd-4th game going to be a thing going forward? If so, I'm very not ok with that.

 

[Bmurph]

Thanks Nolan

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

I knew AJ at Coors was gonna be bad.

I just don't understand why our heavy hitters can't also take advantage.

 

[Bmurph]

I just don't understand why our heavy hitters can't also take advantage.

Collectively they are swinging the bat like shit for the most part or watching 3rd strikes, that could be part of it

 

[donaldson79]

We're fortunate to only be behind by 2. Although Arenado got a single which drove in a run, the pitch had HR written all over it.

Now let's get our bats going.

 

[Bmurph]

Swinging at shit pitches like that doesn't help

 

[WilltheThrill]

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but we're going to be on the hook for $9M per year through 2020 for Fielder. Detroit pays $6M, insurance pays $9M, and we're stuck with the remaining $9M.

So you can look at it two ways- either we're saving $9M a year now, or we're wasting $9M a year on nobody.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Keep fouling it off Mitch. Get that pitch count up.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Strikeout party!!!

 

[Bmurph]

Nice to have such good AB's early games

 

[jta4437]

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but we're going to be on the hook for $9M per year through 2020 for Fielder. Detroit pays $6M, insurance pays $9M, and we're stuck with the remaining $9M.

So you can look at it two ways- either we're saving $9M a year now, or we're wasting $9M a year on nobody.

Spent a little time trying to convince them of this, and that he wasn't "retiring" just unable to play, we can't make him retire, but we don't have to, and won't, clear him to play b/c his neck is jacked, his official retirement won't come until 2020

 

[saddles]

Someone made note the other day about how many times he's taken a called 3rd strike recently. And here's another example.

Why not give the guy a day off? Or two?

Did you hear Norm this morning suggest that if Desmond was incapacitated for any extended length of time that Profar would play in CF instead of DeShields?

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Much better second inning for the Griff.