Texas Rangers 2018-2019 Offseason Thread

[Duane1952]

Very glad football is mercifully over.

Quite a yawnfest not much different than some may consider this offseason has been. Go Rangers

Baseball season can't get here soon enough.

 

[Kelleyman]

Baseball season can't get here soon enough.

Yeah for sure.............and BTW. Pitchers like Greinke and Cliff Lee would not sign here but......Nolan did... he probably liked the heat

 

[Duane1952]

Yeah for sure.............and BTW. Pitchers like Greinke and Cliff Lee would not sign here but......Nolan did... he probably liked the heat

Being from Texas probably had a lot to do with it. Heard he missed Whataburger. That sure was a while back.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

It will be good to get this young man healthy again.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Baseball season can't get here soon enough.

I am with you on that. You can only talk about so many things in the off season. Look forward to seeing if some of our youth continue to grow plus it is 1 year closer to having that roof. As a fan I am soooo looking forward to that. It will up my attendance greatly.

 

[Duane1952]

I am with you on that. You can only talk about so many things in the off season. Look forward to seeing if some of our youth continue to grow plus it is 1 year closer to having that roof. As a fan I am soooo looking forward to that. It will up my attendance greatly.

I will more. Just can't put up with the heat in July and August, like use too.

 

[saddles]

Rangers bullpen taking shape for 2019 season

 

[DT LUNA]

Surprised at no interest in Diekman

 

[Nightcrawler]

I am with you on that. You can only talk about so many things in the off season. Look forward to seeing if some of our youth continue to grow plus it is 1 year closer to having that roof. As a fan I am soooo looking forward to that. It will up my attendance greatly.

The other way to look at it.....we only have to suffer one more year at globe life park.

The new stadium can’t get here soon enough.

 

[saddles]

This lesson learned in 2018 could give Rangers’ Odor first consistent season of career

A quick rundown of Rougned Odor’s career:


2014: Pretty good.

2015: Really bad, then pretty good.

2016: Really good.

2017: Really bad.

2018: Really bad, then really good, then good.

Odor knows that slumps happen. They happen to the best hitters in the game, but they don’t last because they know how to shake free from them. They trust their approach at the plate.

Odor didn’t know that, or didn’ t know how to apply it, going into 2018 after a season that saw him hit 30 homers but post only a .204 average. He beat that last season by nearly 50 points, batting .253 after sinking as low as .169 in May.

But he wasn’t chasing pitches out of the strike zone as much, and he started waiting on pitches he understood he could handle. That’s something he had heard from hitting coaches, but it started to sink in after listening to and watching the stubborn Shin-Soo Choo.

If the pitcher wouldn’t throw one of his pitches, Odor would let them pass as Choo often does. As result, Odor piled up walks at a career-high rate.

In all, he took 43 walks, 22 of them in July and August as he launched 13 of his 18 homers on the season.

“I was not trying to get walks, but I was trying to be selective at the plate to hit my pitch,” Odor said. “I think that helped me a lot in the second half, because I was not swinging at the bad pitches. I was making the pitcher throw my pitch.”

So the wild swings from season to season, and even within a season? A thing of the past, Odor says. If that proves to be true, he could once again be a force in the middle of first-year manager Chris Woodward’s lineup.

 

[saddles]

What Jeff Wilson failed to mention about Odor's 2018 season was that he once again finished in a terrible slump. In his last 130 AB he slashed a line of .185/.246/.269.
https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/mlb/texas-rangers/article201934884.html

 

[saddles]

If there has been a theme to the Rangers' philosophy on pitching acquisitions this winter, it's been about prospects or projects.


Right-hander David Carpenter, who agreed to a minor league contract this week with the team, definitely fits into the latter category. Also, he shouldn't be confused with the "other" David Carpenter, who attended South Grand Prairie High School and pitched at about the same time.

This David Carpenter, 33, hasn't pitched in the majors since 2015 due to shoulder issues. The Rangers are his fifth organization since the Atlanta Braves traded him to the New York Yankees after the 2014 season. He was 10-5 with a 2.63 ERA over 126 innings in 2013-14 with Atlanta, but had just 24 innings since.

 

[saddles]

Can a Matt Harrison signing be far behind? lol

 

[Bmurph]

Seems to have been a theme for 15 years......

 

[DT LUNA]

Seems to have been a theme for 15 years......

Steady as she goes Murph. Steady as she goes.

 

[Kelleyman]

What Jeff Wilson failed to mention about Odor's 2018 season was that he once again finished in a terrible slump. In his last 130 AB he slashed a line of .185/.246/.269.

Well we can count on you to relay the terrible downside. Cheers

 

[Kelleyman]

 

[Kelleyman]

 

[Kelleyman]