BBQ cookoff at the Grill: KC @ TEX 5/10-12

[DTC]

Why even throw it home??
The run had already scored..
Why didn’t huff catch it though?
Why wasn’t Richards backing up the catcher?
Fundamentals guys…

 

[Kelleyman]

Just on board. Sounds like errors have been made. Dare I ask how Allard is doing

 

[DTC]

Just on board. Sounds like errors have been made. Dare I ask how Allard is doing

Seager and Lowe have both made errors.
Allard did pretty good. 3 IP 1 ER

 

[saddles]

After Perez's last start I was thinking along these same lines.

 

[saddles]

That would be nice.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

This team can be hard to watch

 

[Kelleyman]

This team can be hard to watch

That is why i listen or follow online at times

 

[Kelleyman]

So why is Culbertson playing 3B again tonight?

 

[DTC]

That is why i listen or follow online at times

Wouldn’t want to watch the last few pitches..
Error on a ground out to the pitcher.. bad throw to 1b… then a wild wild pitch let him go to 3b

 

[Kelleyman]

And now a run on an apparent dribbler

 

[Kelleyman]

Fundamentals with emphasis on mental missing from Ranger baseball

 

[True Rangers Fan]

little league team. I'm tapping out.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

 

[DTC]

2 on with no out.. let’s go guys!
Maybe Semien will get a crack at a 3 run HR to tie the game lol or maybe a grand slam

 

[DTC]

2 on with no out.. let’s go guys!
Maybe Semien will get a crack at a 3 run HR to tie the game lol or maybe a grand slam

Eh.. very Semienish result

 

[DTC]

Good night..

 

[scotsman1948]

Could be a chicken/egg situation... maybe consistency would help them perform?

i would have to have some faith in the personnel before i could put a consistence team on the field. i have faith in Semien, Seager, Garver, Lowe (some), Heim and Adolis (some) and no one else on the roster. it's time to move on from Miller, Culberson, Kole, Ibanez, Solak and White, and bring up some of the kids like Harris, Hauver, Smith, Wendzel, Jung & either Thompson or Taveras. and go with a set lineup:

Thompson or Taveras CF
Semien 2B
Seager SS
Garcia/Hauver RF
Lowe 1B
Garver DH
Harris/Smith LF
Heim/Huff C
Jund/Wendzel 3B

 

[saddles]

Jeff Wilson writes about Hickory's Marc Church.

Marc Church has also been hard to hit for Hickory.

Church didn’t allow an earned run in April before surrendering two runs apiece in his first two May appearances. He’s a premium strike-thrower who is at his best when his four-seam fastball is up in the zone and his slider is doing its usually nasty things.

He entered Wednesday with 27 strikeouts and two walks this season in 14 2/3 innings, and 76 strikeouts and 10 walks in 42 career innings. Church was shut down in August last season with forearm inflammation.

“When he’s at the top end of the zone he’s pretty much unhittable,” Rangers vice president Ross Fenstermaker said.

Church, 21, will be prone to getting hit from time to time if his command isn’t great at the top of the zone. But who isn’t prone to that?.

The Rangers are intrigued by the notion that their 18th-round pick in 2019 could morph into a starter, or at least a multi-innings reliever, and they are planning to stretch him to to 60 pitches to see what it looks like.

Fenstermaker said that Church’s third pitch is a seldom-used changeup, but the fastball and slider are so good that he could buck the old-school belief that a starter needs three quality pitches to survive in the majors.

 

[saddles]

More from Jeff Wilson about how they are handling high school draftees:

Cam Cauley and Ian Moller were the Rangers’ third- and fourth-round picks in the 2021 draft. They debuted together in the Arizona Complex League. They are roommates, along with fellow prep draftee JoJo Blackmon (11th round).

Neither Cauley nor Moller wanted to stay at extending spring training. One, apparently, expressed his displeasure.

That’s fine. That’s even good. And it’s all water under the bridge now.

The Rangers shipped Cauley and Moller to Down East on Monday, and Cauley made his debut Tuesday night (0 for 5).

The plan the Rangers hatched in spring training was to help make life a little easier on the duo. With no short-season teams anymore, the Rangers are attempted to replicate the experience Cauley and Moller would have had in short-season ball.

They aren’t going to play every day but will get stead at-bats, similar to how infielder Thomas Saggese went through the 2021 season.

Saggese opened this season at Hickory. Cauley and Moller will have that chance in 2023.