Series Thread: Rangers Host the Astros For Three Games August 5 -7

[DT LUNA]

mlb and espn are already alerting viewers about the developing no-hitter in Arlington. Valdez now at 5innings only threw 5 pitches in that inning.
Rangers have only managed 4 balls lightly hit to the outfield and none hit with any effort

Got to pay for the walk off

 

[DT LUNA]

This kind of play is getting old and hard to watch. This is not good baseball and changes are needed.

 

[jaar01]

It's gonna be a no hitter. Pathetic.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Dunning needs to get his act together.

 

[DT LUNA]

Dunning needs to get his act together.

As does the offense

 

[Senator_fan]

Not even close to getting a hit.

 

[Duane1952]

The Rangers need make changes at CF, RF, 1B and Catcher next season.

 

[jaar01]

Dane Dunning is batting practice. Why is he so bad now?

 

[Duane1952]

Thank you Cory no hitter gone. Shutout gone.

 

[saddles]

Dustin Harris with 2 HR tonight.

 

[Senator_fan]

Have to pitch around Alvarez or walk him especially in that situation. I’ve been saying this since last season. Let somebody else beat you.

 

[saddles]

The White Sox finally won tonight.

 

[saddles]

Urena will start tomorrow's game.

 

[fanman8825]

The Rangers need make changes at CF, RF, 1B and Catcher next season.

Sometimes as a gm you have to be able to anticipate what might happen with a player going forward. Usually signs are there to help you make that decision. I don't see this with CY at all and Bochy as well.
Tavares should have been traded in the offseason coming off his best year instead wait and watch his value plummet. Same with Garcia who will be 32 and Lowe too.
This team can't hit worth a lick and it's time to start bringing up some players from RR to see what they can do. You don't have to bring up 3or 4 but it would not hurt to bring 1 or 2 guys to see what they can bring to the table.
All I have seen this year is mismanagement of certain positions and having no clue how to build a bench

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Sometimes as a gm you have to be able to anticipate what might happen with a player going forward. Usually signs are there to help you make that decision. I don't see this with CY at all and Bochy as well.
Tavares should have been traded in the offseason coming off his best year instead wait and watch his value plummet. Same with Garcia who will be 32 and Lowe too.
This team can't hit worth a lick and it's time to start bringing up some players from RR to see what they can do. You don't have to bring up 3or 4 but it would not hurt to bring 1 or 2 guys to see what they can bring to the table.
All I have seen this year is mismanagement of certain positions and having no clue how to build a bench

I can see Leody and Lowe but Garcia I can't buy that we should have seen that he should have been traded because he was 32. He will always be a 250 hitter but since being with the Rangers he has hit 31, 27 and 39 HRs and has been an RBI machine with 90,101 and 107. In the playoffs he hit 323 with 8 HRs and 22 RBIs and that after just hitting 200 with 1 HR and 1 RBI in the wildcard series. Plus he has had 16, 10 and 11 OF assists plus a big one in the World Series. If we are honest with ourselves we were pretty fired up about having Garcia back this year after how the season ended with him.

 

[saddles]

I can see Leody and Lowe but Garcia I can't buy that we should have seen that he should have been traded because he was 32. He will always be a 250 hitter but since being with the Rangers he has hit 31, 27 and 39 HRs and has been an RBI machine with 90,101 and 107. In the playoffs he hit 323 with 8 HRs and 22 RBIs and that after just hitting 200 with 1 HR and 1 RBI in the wildcard series. Plus he has had 16, 10 and 11 OF assists plus a big one in the World Series. If we are honest with ourselves we were pretty fired up about having Garcia back this year after how the season ended with him.

Had the Rangers not made the postseason last year, I would have been fine with trading Adolis.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Had the Rangers not made the postseason last year, I would have been fine with trading Adolis.

Yeah. After what he did in the postseason it would be really difficult to trade him.

 

[scotsman#1948]

This kind of play is getting old and hard to watch. This is not good baseball and changes are needed.

and a good GM, I recognize that I would never be one, would see that by now and make the tough decisions by knowing when it's time to do so.

Grossman, Taveras, Jankowski and Ornelas have no future with this team and it's time cut them and bring up players who might. the last few weeks I've been pushing for CY and Bochy to make the move and bring Crim, Fabian & Harris up to replace them with Huff being called up on September 1st when the rosters expand to 28.

and to those 2 open 40-man spots, i would add Teodo and Acker

 

[saddles]

Fixing this team will more than likely take more than one offseason. We might as well prepare ourselves for that.

One of the reasons for that is because our farm system has slipped a lot. That could have been remedied to a great degree had we been sellers a few days ago. Our free-agents-to-be could have brought back some good young talent.

One thing that has hurt our farm system is poor drafting of position players. The 2021 draft saw us select 3 hitters in the second, third and fourth rounds. Zavala and Moller have been busts. Cauley is liked by some analysts, but he has a long way to go. We lost our second and third round picks in both 2022 and 2023, and that has hurt our system as well. The deadline deals last year hurt us, also

The farm is just not going to be much help for awhile when it comes to supplying us with offensive production. There are four guys at Round Rock who could possibly help, but so far the Rangers don't seem to trust them very much. Those guys are Dustin Harris, Justin Foscue, Sam Huff and Blaine Crim. If one or two of them are actually the real deal, then maybe things could look a lot brighter.

Where do we go from here? We have to hope 2025 brings us a whole lot more health. Maybe we can trade Lowe and bring back someone who can help us by late next year or 2026. We have to draft better. We have to get prolonged looks at the four guys I mentioned above. We need to give Duran every opportunity we can, to develop into a goid hitter. It would help if we could find a surprise in our system. Maybe that could be Josh Hatcher, Cody Freeman, or Abimelec Ortiz.

It may take getting Langford, Carter, Jung, Smith and Walcott all on the same team and having them all be healthy. That might not take place until 2026. In the meantime, go out and sign good relievers for next season and hope for good health for the team in 2025. Try to start replacing some poor offensive starters over the next couple of years.

 

[saddles]

Yeah. After what he did in the postseason it would be really difficult to trade him.

Down right impossible