Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Houston For Three Games With the Astros April 12-14

[saddles]

From Tepid:

After tonight, I’m in less of a hurry to move Teodo to the ‘pen. CH was functional tonight and the FB/Slurve were both good. Had some overthrows, had some timing issues, but Ima let that dude cook as a starter for at least another couple months.

 

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[Kelleyman]

Despite whatever reason AH had, he knew he was not going to let Wyatt succeed. He,IMO, is a dishonest person. No umpire could miss three calls that badly.

Yes it makes you wonder if he has an agenda to teach a rookie that he is the big dog and not him

Comes across to big for his britches. And yes it shames the whole profession and helps further the cause for robo umps

 

[Kelleyman]

When we need 40 man spots over the next few weeks we should have some easy decisions.

Burke to the 60 day and then released
Anderson put on waivers
Walsh released or traded
Ornelas released
Trade Taveras
Releaae or trade Knizner and bring up Huff

Yes a lot of roster decisions ahead with Lowe Lorenzon and soon Scherzer ahead to the roster
To me Grant and Brock just don’t have it and need to be off the roster
So we need another LHP which has to be either Heaney to the pen or bring up Kelly
I like LeClec but keep him lower leverage for now. I think Yates or eventually Sborz will have to close
Unless there is injury where can we fit Church at this point?
Latz is a keeper and ok with giving Urena a spot. Pruitt does not look like he has it so wonder if he was ready to opt out? Still he may be the first one sent down
I was surprised he was activated

I suspect we keep Walsh but send Davis W back down until Josh J is ready
Catcher is tough as Kizner does not look offensively or defensively at this point. Obviously Huff is a bigger threat offensively

 

[Kelleyman]

If we can get a win today then IMO this has been a successful series

 

[Nightcrawler]

If we can get a win today then IMO this has been a successful series

We seem to struggle with Houston in the regular season. I’m glad we only have 6 games left total with them after today.

 

[Kelleyman]

Looks like Cole Winn is to be activated

 

[Kelleyman]

Cody Bradford has back soreness. Rangers will put him on IL to give him 15 days. Lorenzen will start on Monday in Detroit

Via EG. Ouch

 

[saddles]

Looking forward to seeing how Cole does in a one inning role.

 

[saddles]

Yes a lot of roster decisions ahead with Lowe Lorenzon and soon Scherzer ahead to the roster
To me Grant and Brock just don’t have it and need to be off the roster
So we need another LHP which has to be either Heaney to the pen or bring up Kelly
I like LeClec but keep him lower leverage for now. I think Yates or eventually Sborz will have to close
Unless there is injury where can we fit Church at this point?
Latz is a keeper and ok with giving Urena a spot. Pruitt does not look like he has it so wonder if he was ready to opt out? Still he may be the first one sent down
I was surprised he was activated

I suspect we keep Walsh but send Davis W back down until Josh J is ready
Catcher is tough as Kizner does not look offensively or defensively at this point. Obviously Huff is a bigger threat offensively

Pruitt most likely gets DFAed in a couple of days.

 

[saddles]

Sam Huff has gotten off to a great start. His OPS is at 1.060.

 

[DT LUNA]

Let's trade for Altuve for a hitting coach

 

[DT LUNA]

Sam Huff has gotten off to a great start. His OPS is at 1.060.

Bring him up.

 

[DT LUNA]

This offense has got to pick otherwise we can forget about the pitching problems.

 

[DT LUNA]

Ski is a better bet at the plate than Taveras. When will Bochy wake up and smell the coffee.

 

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Taveras at .191 now. Last year he hit .227 over his last 256 at bats. He is closing in on 1200 at bats in his big league career. It is time for him to be replaced. Maybe they have to wait until Lowe gets back, but it needs to be done soon.

 

[DT LUNA]

Jonah that was terrible.