Series Thread: Battling Rangers go to Oakland Coliseum to fight the A's

[Bmurph]

crack will do that to ya Tom

 

[ESPN Refugee]

Just turned on the TV little while ago and I kid you not I totally forgot Wash was back with Oakland as 3B coach it kinda startled me at first.

 

[donaldson79]

Good night gents

Evening.....happy trails.

 

[handicappers]

The game isn't over. What's with all the negative posts?

 

[romeo212000]

The game isn't over. What's with all the negative posts?

Just a bit of a hangover often yesterday's events.

 

[Bmurph]

Kinsler with 6 more HR's than Prince so far

 

[saddles]

Profar hit his 5th HR tonight. He may get a chance to hit one up here soon.

 

[saddles]

We have had 4 catchers play this year for us and they have hit a total of 6 HRS compared to Fielder's 2 while Fielder has had about 10 more at bats than they have.

 

[Nightcrawler]

The maneaoh whatever guy for Oakland tonight shut them down. Unfortunately, this team tends to get shut down by pitchers everyone else crushes. Dickey had his best games against us and now this guy.

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

The decreases in swings and misses is definitely concerning.

He's our #5... this is what a #5 pitches like. Some decent nights (like last night) and some horrible nights. It sucks, b/c he had a higher ceiling --- but at this point, he is what he is.

 

[RevSader]

He's our #5... this is what a #5 pitches like. Some decent nights (like last night) and some horrible nights. It sucks, b/c he had a higher ceiling --- but at this point, he is what he is.

Not been the same since that shoulder injury last year. He bounced back from the knee surgery fine, but now he has shit command his secondary pitches are garbage.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

He's our #5... this is what a #5 pitches like. Some decent nights (like last night) and some horrible nights. It sucks, b/c he had a higher ceiling --- but at this point, he is what he is.

He's supposed to be the #3.

 

[saddles]

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Watch the trailer for “Pitch,” the new show about a woman pitcher in the bigs

Romeo, set your DVR.

 

[romeo212000]

Watch the trailer for “Pitch,” the new show about a woman pitcher in the bigs

Romeo, set your DVR.

I ought to ban you for even linking that here.

 

[DT LUNA]

He's supposed to be the #3.

Right now I think Lewis is #3 and Derek and Martin is a toss up for #4/5 till Griffin and Yu returns.
1 Darvish 2 Hamels 3 lewis 4 Griffin 5 Derek/Perez ( based on current performance )

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Right now I think Lewis is #3 and Derek and Martin is a toss up for #4/5 till Griffin and Yu returns.
1 Darvish 2 Hamels 3 lewis 4 Griffin 5 Derek/Perez ( based on current performance )

I suppose you have Griffin as the #2 currently? Not that I disagree.

 

[saddles]

I wonder if what Derek is experiencing is common for the type of injury that he had. I would also like to know if how he has pitched since that injury is ever going to get better or is this what he has to be for the rest of his career. I really wish we had some local writers who actually researched something like this and gave us an informative article. I know there was talk of a drop in velocity earlier this year and I would like to know if that is normal and if it can be expected to improve.

 

[romeo212000]

I wonder if what Derek is experiencing is common for the type of injury that he had. I would also like to know if how he has pitched since that injury is ever going to get better or is this what he has to be for the rest of his career. I really wish we had some local writers who actually researched something like this and gave us an informative article. I know there was talk of a drop in velocity earlier this year and I would like to know if that is normal and if it can be expected to improve.

Honestly, it's a total crap shoot.

 

[saddles]