Series Thread: Surging Rangers hosting the Chicago White Sox

[DT LUNA]

Pick up your brain Leo.

 

[RevSader]

The defense plays it's worse when Yovani is on the mound.

 

[romeo212000]

Now that is exciting.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Looking for a sub-20 pitch 1st, YoGa.

Nope.

 

[RevSader]

When guys are late on 90 you must have some good stuff.

 

[RevSader]

We're gonna be stuck with this guy. What playoff team would want him?

 

[romeo212000]

You're not getting that inside strike.

 

[RevSader]

Thanks for hitting it to one of the bigger parts of the park.

 

[RevSader]

DDJ doing thangs

 

[DT LUNA]

Damn! DDJ

 

[jta4437]

TEX lack of offense in April made it tough for pitchers who didn't command the strike zone. Corby and Martinez did and despite the poor run support kept the team in games. Detwiler with ERA in the vicinity of the Runs Scored flirted with danger every outing.

Not sure why TEX thought they could make Detwiler into an SP after WSN moved him to the bullpen last year. He had one season where he performed somewhat effectively ... got a salary bump above league minimum ... and lasted a third of the next season before going down. That was 2013. He was done in June. In 2014 he appeared in 47 games with 63IP. Hardly a long arm ... but he had a SP salary.

Detwiler is part of that long line of NL SP spares TEX has acquired over the past five years or so. Wandy Rodriguez and Yovani Gallardo break that mold. But Detwiler comes from the same Rich Hardon mold ... and other spares TEX got from CHC.

As for DeShields -- he's performing incredibly. Way above past expectations. Tweet last night from LSB's Tepid Participation. Maybe DDJ is the real deal ... and the entire Houston system missed it.

Doesn't change the absurdity of your statement that we started winning when Detwiler was DLed, b/c the issue wasn't ultimately him, it was the lack of offense,

you can try and spin it in another direction all you want that he shouldn't have been tried as a starter, but that still doesn't make it the reason we struggled as a TEAM in April, it wasn't one guy, it was a lineup of underachievers and some weak starting pitching,

but even without Detwiler the pitching isn't that much better, and the offense is scoring more runs.... with an improved winning %... go figure

 

[romeo212000]

DDJ jus keeps whooping ass.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Love DDJ.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Alright Prince... the right field fans need a souvenir!

 

[jta4437]

Alright Prince... the right field fans need a souvenir!

I'd settle for a opposite field single, I feel like he's sort of abandoned that approach after his recent HR binge

 

[jta4437]

I'd settle for a opposite field single, I feel like he's sort of abandoned that approach after his recent HR binge

Orrrrr right up the middle works too

 

[RevSader]

White Sox aren't a good team. Let's put up a crooked number.

 

[romeo212000]

Fuck off Mitch. That was terrible.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Mitch has lost the touch.

 

[RevSader]

Did Elvis swing at two balls?