Our Texas Rangers against the Oakland A's 9/2 -9/4

[Windingmywatch]

If he's on the team next year he will be talked about like Murphy is.

Count on it ...

 

[jta4437]

Wasn't Colon part of that biogenesis crap? Why is he still playing?

There's a whole thread titled Bartolo Colon where this discussed and explained in depth

 

[Windingmywatch]

Not at all, just saying he's been an up an down player his whole career, usually rebounds after a bad/mediocre season... happens quite a bit with underachievers with talent, Overachievers like Murphy tend to give consistent performances until the skills start to erode at some point and the talent wasn't there to begin with

When was his last up season? When was the last one before that?

 

[WilltheThrill]

Check is WAR ... oWAR and dWAR: 0.2, 0.2, -0.1 He's no better than replacement value.

Alex Rios Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

Selective much? He's been a 0.2 WAR player in the whopping 3 weeks he's been with the Rangers. He's having a down season this year and was around a 1 WAR player with Chicago this season. Last year he was a 4.6 WAR OF. Calling him replacement-level based on 3 weeks of average play is ridiculous. Average replacement-level players don't hit 20 HR and swipe 30 bases.

 

[jta4437]

Check is WAR ... oWAR and dWAR: 0.2, 0.2, -0.1 He's no better than replacement value.

Alex Rios Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

he's played 21 games for us

And seriously? you're better than that

 

[jta4437]

When was his last up season? When was the last one before that?

2012, .851 OPS 4.2 WAR

2010 .791 OPS 3.0 WAR

 

[RevSader]

2012, .851 OPS 4.2 WAR

Then I hope JD can trade him to someone who believes he will be good in 2014.

 

[WilltheThrill]

2012, .851 OPS 4.2 WAR

Kind of left out that little tidbit, didn't he?

 

[1502tuley]

I'm already so frustrated with this game (sad that one is frustrated in a 1-0 game), I've started flipping back and forth between this game and the replay of the TCU/LSU game. My team lost in that one and I would still rather watch it that see our batters fail time and time again with RISP.

 

[Nightcrawler]

How are we gonna mess this one up?

 

[dammittman]

2 on, no outs, lets see how we screw this one up

 

[DT LUNA]

See that Wash? That's Gentry w/2 hits.

 

[RevSader]

All that so Kins can pop up and Adrian can ground out.

 

[Sexy]

Runner on third, less than 2 outs. Attempt #2.

Gut feeling a little bit better about this one.

 

[Nightcrawler]

There goes Wash giving up an out at the beginning of a game again....

 

[jta4437]

A hit would be great but one to the OF is acceptable

 

[Nightcrawler]

Strike 2 ..... Ugh

 

[Nightcrawler]

Biggest group of chokers ever

 

[Sexy]

C'mon Adrian

 

[WilltheThrill]

Great AB Kinsler. This is just miserable.