AUG 17-20 Rangers host San Diego

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

What is going on with Minor?

something major

 

[DT LUNA]

Trade value is not even a question

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Trade value is not even a question

might get something for Lynn

 

[DT LUNA]

May have to go to Dollar General if this keeps up. Getting low on ice cream.

 

[UK Cowboy]

I didn't see it but I do not have a problem with it. Make your pitches and don't fall behind 3-0. I say the hitter should do what he normally would do regardless of the score.

I agree. It's rare, but I have seen teams blow 7 run leads. Run Rules are for Little League. Don't ask the other team to quit playing hard, either play better or have your team come off the field and hit the showers. No problem with Tatis swinging no matter the score

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

I agree. It's rare, but I have seen teams blow 7 run leads. Run Rules are for Little League. Don't ask the other team to quit playing hard, either play better or have your team come off the field and hit the showers. No problem with Tatis swinging no matter the score

I realize I'm going to get misunderstood and probably shit on for this, but taking on 3-0 has been in the game a long time.

 

[DT LUNA]

I realize I'm going to get misunderstood and probably shit on for this, but taking on 3-0 has been in the game a long time.

Right you are. It was just the circumstances that got people upset. I had no problem either way.

 

[UK Cowboy]

I realize I'm going to get misunderstood and probably shit on for this, but taking on 3-0 has been in the game a long time.

You are right, but I think in general, you take on 3-0 to work a walk and try and drive up a pitch count. I know for myself, if I have a good hitter at the plate, I'm giving him the green light on any 3-0. First, the player has worked the count to 3-0, so he has shown a good eye already, will likely take ball 4 anyway if it's not a strike. Second, he will likely pass on a fastball right down the pipe, then likely get an offspeed strike on the next pitch and be sitting 3-2 and an extended zone on full count. JMO

 

[DT LUNA]

Profar has got to be happy with that one.

 

[Kelleyman]

Minor does not look like he has a lot of value now. I wonder what his interest is

 

[Kelleyman]

Woodward may have been a bit misunderstood on the mic last night but it came across whiny and excuse filled. Why the reporter chooses to ask this sets him up for failure just by being honest. The problem is now it infuses and IMO poisons the team with excuses and softness.
The whole TV crew all 3 of them need to be overhauled IMO

 

[Kelleyman]

Rangers don’t come across tough minded minus mostly Lynn

 

[DT LUNA]

Minor could find himself back in the pen

 

[Kelleyman]

“I find it funny that I’m being labeled as the old-school guy,” the manager said with a nervous chuckle. “I’ve thought about a lot of the gray area in the game when it comes to the unwritten rules. We’ve moved past a lot of these things. The line is one (place) for one person and one (place) for the other. Just because I was upset about it doesn’t mean that I was right. Doesn’t mean that it’s wrong that he swung. I’m always willing and open to listen to discussion.

“Did it cross the line? In my opinion, yes. But maybe that’s because I’m scarred from the years I’ve been in the game and what I’ve heard and witnessed from people in the past. That doesn’t mean I’m right, though. That doesn’t mean that he was wrong to swing 3-0. Maybe that’s the new norm. Maybe that’s OK.”

It’s always going to make for an easy target when someone invokes an unwritten rule against one of the brightest young stars in the game, especially when the act in question made the score 14-3. It can come off as sour grapes, whining, or (in a twist of fate) poor sportsmanship. It didn’t take long for the internet to point out that Woodward’s lone grand slam as a big-leaguer came in the ninth inning of a game his team was leading 10-4 at the time.

Article today quoting Woody

 

[DT LUNA]

Joey hit that one like my ole friend Donaldson of Tenessee haha

 

[saddles]

Adam Morris will hate this.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

Minor could find himself back in the pen

He will have to take Lyles with him.

 

[saddles]

You are right, but I think in general, you take on 3-0 to work a walk and try and drive up a pitch count. I know for myself, if I have a good hitter at the plate, I'm giving him the green light on any 3-0. First, the player has worked the count to 3-0, so he has shown a good eye already, will likely take ball 4 anyway if it's not a strike. Second, he will likely pass on a fastball right down the pipe, then likely get an offspeed strike on the next pitch and be sitting 3-2 and an extended zone on full count. JMO

Yep, let a good hitter have the green light.

 

[DT LUNA]

He will have to take Lyles with him.

Never know from one moment to the next