The Peagle flies again - Rangers back home to kick off June: SEA @ TEX 6/2-4

[Kelleyman]

Maybe the new game 2 starter

 

[Kelleyman]

Here we go. He is not doing well methinks

 

[saddles]

The whole team is it hitting that great as well

Acuna had a pretty good May and Harris finished the month looking a lot better over the final 2 weeks.

They do need their hitters in the upper levels to get hot.

At least Huff looked great in May.

 

[scotsman1948]

I think they will replace Miller with either Huff or someone they trade for at some point between now and late next month.

When Duran comes back they will have to send Leon packing.

Okay but for 2 to 5 games that seems unnecessary

 

[scotsman1948]

Here we go. He is not doing well methinks

Don’t really understand what the development list for. Thought it had something to do with conditioning

 

[saddles]

Okay but for 2 to 5 games that seems unnecessary

Teams do it all the time though. I can't remember the last time we only had an emergency-type backup for 1B.

Miller may be a poor answer, but until they are ready to get someone else, he is the only answer we got.

Who knows, maybe they are working out Smith or will work out Duran at 1B until they are comfortable with one of them to backup Lowe. It only took a little while to gat Gallo ready to play 1B and he did it really well right off. So maybe they will have Smith or Duran ready within a couple of weeks.

 

[scotsman1948]

Teams do it all the time though. I can't remember the last time we only had an emergency-type backup for 1B.

Miller may be a poor answer, but until they are ready to get someone else, he is the only answer we got.

Who knows, maybe they are working out Smith or will work out Duran at 1B until they are comfortable with one of them to backup Lowe. It only took a little while to gat Gallo ready to play 1B and he did it really well right off. So maybe they will have Smith or Duran ready within a couple of weeks.

All possible. I was just pointing out Garver can handle 1B for 1or 2 games

 

[Kelleyman]

Official now

 

[saddles]

An interesting list from Scott Lucas;

A non-comprehensive list of ex-Rangers farmhands who are playing in indy ball now:

Atlantic League:
P Derek Holland
P Neil Ramirez
P Jerad Eickhoff
P Jake Lemoine
P Brady Feigl
P Brett de Geus
P Tai Tiedemann
P Joe Kuzia
IF Curtis Terry
IF Cristian Inoa
IF Andretty Cordero
IF Jake Hoover
OF Pedro Gonzalez

American Association:
P Akeem Bostick
P Nick Green
P Joe Corbett
P Nic Laio
IF Josh Altmann
OF Delino DeShields Jr

Frontier League:
IF Ti'Quan Forbes
IF Juremi Profar
IF Tyler Depreta-Johnson
IF Kenen Irizarry
OF Eric Jenkins

 

[Kelleyman]

I think the AL west is an extremely interesting division. All teams are seriously still going for it and may just cash in sooner than later with their prospects minus the lowly As who are refusing to field a decent team.

They look worse than the Astros when they were tanking

 

[saddles]

Rangers activate Mitch Garver from the injured list, option Bubba Thompson to Triple A

ARLINGTON — The Texas Rangers’ league-leading offense now has more reinforcements. The Rangers activated catcher Mitch Garver from the injured list on Friday...

www.dallasnews.com

"Garver’s return provides added flexibility to Texas’ lineup, where he can play designated hitter and spell Jonah Heim (who’s caught 44 of the Rangers’ 55 games) at catcher."

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

Jung is making it more and more difficult for anyone else to get seriously considered for AL ROY.

 

[scotsman1948]

The next 8 series are going to be tough: Seattle(3), St Louis(3), Tampa(3), LAA(4), Toronto(3), CHW(3), NYY(3) and Detroit(4).

It would be great to go through them and end up 17-9 but it won’t be easy

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

 

[scotsman1948]

Good start for Gray

 

[saddles]

Great start for Brock Porter this evening.

 

[DT LUNA]

Gray has used only 20 pitches after 2 innings.

 

[armadillooutlaw]

Anybody getting a feeling both starting pitchers are going to be carrying a shutout into extra innings?