2019 Texas Rangers Spring Training Thread

[DT LUNA]

Oh boy!! Dave and CJ

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

 

[Duane1952]

Oh boy!! Dave and CJ

Something I'm not looking forward too.

 

[Duane1952]

I beginning to wonder if Mendez will ever be a major league pitcher.

 

[saddles]

Guzman: Knee (he had surgery on the meniscus in 2013 and said he occasionally gets some soreness there.

From Evan Grant.

 

[Duane1952]

Choo is not having a good spring. Hope this is not a sign of things to come.

 

[saddles]

 

[Nightcrawler]

Time will tell if our pen is burnt and Miller is the only one I have read who is on a limited pitch count. I do think one of the reasons we are not going the opener route is so we can have guys pitch multiple innings as a hedge. My guess is Hamel gets regular work.

To me the biggest beef with management is pitcher development. For example, Marteen has become the darling with the Twins due to some tweaks. We shall see how that plays out. But regardless the outcomes have not favored us.

I think this is spot on.

The last good home grown starter was probably Colby “long ball” Lewis. Holland ended up being a dud.

Darvish was imported from Japan. We gave the Phillies an arm and a leg for a developed “ready to go” ace Cole Hamels. Matt Harrison was a Braves product.

We need to bring in someone who knows how to develop pitching. Other organizations seems to have guys who can. We don’t. I remember people were excited about Luke Jackson coming out of our system a few years ago and I literally had to cover my nose every time he was in the game because he stunk so bad.

 

[Kelleyman]

Pence-Old man warrior on the base path

 

[DT LUNA]

This is a hard game to watch

 

[Kelleyman]

I beginning to wonder if Mendez will ever be a major league pitcher.

And he left the game with left elbow tightness. Does not sound good

 

[Kelleyman]

Odor goes with the pitch away and gets the RBI. Nice

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

We usually have 2 or 3 pitchers go down to Tommy John each year. Mendez might be the first. Maybe we can manage to not have any of our top 7 or 8 pitching prospects go down with it this season.

 

[saddles]

Woodward said we aren't going with an Opener because the 3 TJ guys have to go through a long toss program just before each game and they can't do that coming in later in the game.

For that, I am thankful we have the TJ rotation.

 

[saddles]

I think this is spot on.

The last good home grown starter was probably Colby “long ball” Lewis. Holland ended up being a dud.

Darvish was imported from Japan. We gave the Phillies an arm and a leg for a developed “ready to go” ace Cole Hamels. Matt Harrison was a Braves product.

We need to bring in someone who knows how to develop pitching. Other organizations seems to have guys who can. We don’t. I remember people were excited about Luke Jackson coming out of our system a few years ago and I literally had to cover my nose every time he was in the game because he stunk so bad.

The thing about it is, we have changed up approaches and personnel more than once, and yet it has remained a problem. I have a good feeling that the results are about to change though, if we are patient and don't trade them away for a quick fix for a wildcard berrh. Mendez and Jurado may be the end of the long line of disappointments. I think a lot more successes will be mixed in after those two guys.

 

[Kelleyman]

 

[Kelleyman]

The thing about it is, we have changed up approaches and personnel more than once, and yet it has remained a problem. I have a good feeling that the results are about to change though, if we are patient and don't trade them away for a quick fix for a wildcard berrh. Mendez and Jurado may be the end of the long line of disappointments. I think a lot more successes will be mixed in after those two guys.

I am hoping and think you are correct but if they don't get some solid results JD may end up as president only. They were one strike away but not due to pitching development.

But the thing I think is different is the new guys hired are into the updated analytics from the cutting edge teams.

So yes I am optimistic about some of our pitching prospects on the way

 

[Kelleyman]