Series Thread: Rangers Host Tampa Bay Ray for Three Games July 17-19

[Bmurph]

Astros lose

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Let's keep winning well pitched games. Nice work from Eovaldi.

 

[Kelleyman]

Good to get series win. Maybe with Chapman rested we can sweep

Was curious if Eovaldi below drop would be addressed but nothing as far-as I could tell
Really surprised they let Guerra pitch to Corey after ball hit him. And CS made them pay
Great 2 games so far

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Good to get series win. Maybe with Chapman rested we can sweep

Was curious if Eovaldi below drop would be addressed but nothing as far-as I could tell
Really surprised they let Guerra pitch to Corey after ball hit him. And CS made them pay
Great 2 games so far

The velo was discussed on the broadcast if that's what you meant

 

[Nightcrawler]

Would love for tomorrow to be a blow out in favor of the rangers with the Rays using a bunch of bullpen guys.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

My main concern right now is that they are a little too dependent on the home run

 

[scotsman1948]

Latest rumor on what Texas would give up for Ohtani:

Brock Porter
Jack Leiter
Ezequiel Duran
Justin Foscue
Trisomy Morrobel

Not only NO but HELL NO

 

[DT LUNA]

My main concern right now is that they are a little too dependent on the home run

Yes and Duran and Traveras have not helped either. You know what they say,'live by the sword".

 

[scotsman1948]

Yes and Duran and Traveras have not helped either. You know what they say,'live by the sword".

Other teams have figured out that Duran hasn’t seen a slider he won’t swing at. Last night the pitching coach rushed out to the mount just prior to Duran batting and you could almost read the conversation. Slider, slider, slider

 

[Kelleyman]

So they let Hearn go but not Howard.
Hard to wrap my head around this but welcome up

 

[scotsman1948]

So they let Hearn go but not Howard.
Hard to wrap my head around this but welcome up

Can’t understand what they see in Howard.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

So they let Hearn go but not Howard.

6 of one, half dozen of the other. Sorry to see Taylor go but he just never put it together.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

The 10 teams that need Ohtani the most

8. Rangers

There is no doubting the Rangers’ “go for it” credentials in pursuit of their first championship. Not after the club dropped $500 million on a new middle infield (Corey Seager and Marcus Semien) and signed an entire rotation’s worth of veteran starting pitchers over the past two offseasons. If that wasn’t enough, Texas already pulled off the first significant trade of this Deadline season, landing Aroldis Chapman from the Royals to bolster their bullpen. So why stop there?

While the Rangers have roughly three-in-four odds of making the playoffs, per FanGraphs, they’re only a tossup to win the division and nail down that key first-round bye, with the still-dangerous Astros on their heels. Meanwhile, Ohtani is an ideal fit here in multiple ways. First, DH is easily the least productive spot in the Rangers’ lineup (.647 OPS). Second, with Jacob deGrom out for the season and Martín Pérez and Andrew Heaney not particularly effective thus far, another top-tier starting pitcher would be more than welcome, especially in October.

 

[scotsman1948]

Guess Bochy has seen enough of Duran. Grossman will DH today with Duran relegated to the bench

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Guess Bochy has seen enough of Duran. Grossman will DH today with Duran relegated to the bench

Could be a matchup play or just getting Robbie into a game.

 

[scotsman1948]

The 10 teams that need Ohtani the most

8. Rangers

There is no doubting the Rangers’ “go for it” credentials in pursuit of their first championship. Not after the club dropped $500 million on a new middle infield (Corey Seager and Marcus Semien) and signed an entire rotation’s worth of veteran starting pitchers over the past two offseasons. If that wasn’t enough, Texas already pulled off the first significant trade of this Deadline season, landing Aroldis Chapman from the Royals to bolster their bullpen. So why stop there?

While the Rangers have roughly three-in-four odds of making the playoffs, per FanGraphs, they’re only a tossup to win the division and nail down that key first-round bye, with the still-dangerous Astros on their heels. Meanwhile, Ohtani is an ideal fit here in multiple ways. First, DH is easily the least productive spot in the Rangers’ lineup (.647 OPS). Second, with Jacob deGrom out for the season and Martín Pérez and Andrew Heaney not particularly effective thus far, another top-tier starting pitcher would be more than welcome, especially in October.

Would rather not trade away what it would take to get a 2- month rental with minimal chance of resigning him

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Would rather not trade away what it would take to get a 2- month rental with minimal chance of resigning him

probably the toughest choice a GM has ever had to make.

 

[scotsman1948]

Could be a matchup play or just getting Robbie into a game.

Maybe. But Duran can’t stop swinging at sliders and TB has thrown him nothing but sliders except for that 1 pitch that McClanahan threw him and he hit a homer and Cleveland threw him nothing but sliders

 

[scotsman1948]

probably the toughest choice a GM has ever had to make.

I can think of a couple of pitchers and at least 1 batter that we could get for a lot less in prospects

 

[saddles]

Think of what you would give up for the best pitcher on the rental market. Then think of what you would give up for the best hitter on the rental market. Add those two packages together and start with that as what you would give up for Ohtani. He is better that those other two so you would have to add something to that combined package.

I understand he is worth a ton, I just am very hesitant to pay it.