tOfficial 2014 Season thread

[romeo212000]

MLB Texas Rangers Blog Index - ESPN

Jpa is gone!!!

 

[DT LUNA]

MLB Texas Rangers Blog Index - ESPN

Jpa is gone!!!

No great loss.

 

[Nightcrawler]

MLB Texas Rangers Blog Index - ESPN

Jpa is gone!!!

Good riddance.... The team strikes out enough without him.

 

[fordman84]

Not really Rangers news anymore, but Nationals have announced Matt Purke needs Tommy John surgery.


Again kids, if you are a first round pick pitcher you BETTER sign with the team. Otherwise any college you go to is going to saddle you with tons of hard innings and wear out your arm. Take the money and let the pro's who have made a long term investment in you handle your arm.

 

[Bmurph]

Not really Rangers news anymore, but Nationals have announced Matt Purke needs Tommy John surgery.


Again kids, if you are a first round pick pitcher you BETTER sign with the team. Otherwise any college you go to is going to saddle you with tons of hard innings and wear out your arm. Take the money and let the pro's who have made a long term investment in you handle your arm.

Saw that and I agree with this

 

[jta4437]

Not really Rangers news anymore, but Nationals have announced Matt Purke needs Tommy John surgery.


Again kids, if you are a first round pick pitcher you BETTER sign with the team. Otherwise any college you go to is going to saddle you with tons of hard innings and wear out your arm. Take the money and let the pro's who have made a long term investment in you handle your arm.

Yep, monumentally dumb move on his part, take the money, set back the amount of a college education (or at least 2 years), let it draw interest and pay for it yourself if things don't work out

 

[Nightcrawler]

Not really Rangers news anymore, but Nationals have announced Matt Purke needs Tommy John surgery.


Again kids, if you are a first round pick pitcher you BETTER sign with the team. Otherwise any college you go to is going to saddle you with tons of hard innings and wear out your arm. Take the money and let the pro's who have made a long term investment in you handle your arm.

I remember when that happened. His dad was a dumbass.

 

[lainey12]

Not really Rangers news anymore, but Nationals have announced Matt Purke needs Tommy John surgery.


Again kids, if you are a first round pick pitcher you BETTER sign with the team. Otherwise any college you go to is going to saddle you with tons of hard innings and wear out your arm. Take the money and let the pro's who have made a long term investment in you handle your arm.

I think it's starting even earlier than that, young kids trying to throw too hard, too many pitches, way too young.

Dr. Andrews is now calling it an "epidemic"

 

[romeo212000]

I think it's starting even earlier than that, young kids trying to throw too hard, too many pitches, way too young.

Dr. Andrews is now calling it an "epidemic"

Teaching 12 year olds to spin the ball is flat out stupid too

 

[Bmurph]

Teaching 12 year olds to spin the ball is flat out stupid too

I was at the ballpark near my house the other day and overheard a guy calling pitches to his 8 year old. Whether he was actually throwing the pitches i couldn't tell you, but the dad called for a curveball and a slider and I thought I should go slap that guy. At 8 years old is beyond absurd.

Some of these kids are throwing year around now and have almost no offseason with all the traveling teams people have their kids involved in and such.

Heard where a high school kid threw 190 plus pitches or something in a game a couple weeks ago, thats just plain stupid

 

[romeo212000]

I was at the ballpark near my house the other day and overheard a guy calling pitches to his 8 year old. Whether he was actually throwing the pitches i couldn't tell you, but the dad called for a curveball and a slider and I thought I should go slap that guy. At 8 years old is beyond absurd.

Some of these kids are throwing year around now and have almost no offseason with all the traveling teams people have their kids involved in and such.

Heard where a high school kid threw 190 plus pitches or something in a game a couple weeks ago, thats just plain stupid

..... Is all I have to say about that.




I never threw anything but a four seam fastball and a change up until I was 15 almost sixteen. Then I added a slider but my I came straight over the top with it, just like my other pitches, and I only threw it maybe 5-6 times a game. My coaches long ago drilled into me that if I could spot my fastball and throw my change up for strikes, I'd be very successful.

 

[lainey12]

don't get me started on this pitching and kids thing....I'll never shut up.
It's horrible and the parents are delusional.... (not all of them, just most of them)
Some things never change


As Romeo pointed out, the first thing you need is control, if you master that you're already going to be 100 steps ahead of the kid who's parents thinks he needs to throw as hard as can, K as much as he can.
Fundamentals and control first, then you can slowly throw in other pitches and you keep a limit on those.

 

[lainey12]

I was at the ballpark near my house the other day and overheard a guy calling pitches to his 8 year old. Whether he was actually throwing the pitches i couldn't tell you, but the dad called for a curveball and a slider and I thought I should go slap that guy. At 8 years old is beyond absurd.

Some of these kids are throwing year around now and have almost no offseason with all the traveling teams people have their kids involved in and such.

Heard where a high school kid threw 190 plus pitches or something in a game a couple weeks ago, thats just plain stupid

8 years old?...190 for a HS kid? Must not have been an adult with an IQ over 60 around

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

What a freakin' throw by Cespedes.

Cespedes' outstanding throw home | MLB.com

 

[TheRangerDude]

Hate to say it about a rival but the A's are freaking good this year. They might finally have the team to take all the way. It's just nuts who they do it with. It seems lucky but numbers suggest this is just who they are. This far into the season, they lead the MLB in both pitching (ERA, BAA, WHIP, amongst others) in addition to leading the MLB in offense (Most runs but 18th in AVG, the key is they get on base-lead in OBP).

If they continue to hold these ranks they will be tough for anyone to stop. And I think they are doing it without 2 of their starters-one really good one. How is it that pitchers just find their stuff there? I mean its crazy how many pitchers go there and find their best stuff again. Kazmir looks like the guy doing it this season. Jesse Chavez and Drew Pomeranz have seemed to find something there too. Also, it almost seems like they hit on nearly every pitching prospect too.

I mean like them or not you really have to tip your cap to what they are able to do with there pitching on such a tight budget. They really must have some of the best pitching scouts and pitching development programs there are.

I still have no idea where this offense comes from though. I look at the lineup and the numbers they produce just don't make sense to me.

 

[Bmurph]

The Texas Rangers' awesome scoreboard warning fans not to do The Wave - SBNation.com

Some people are just too dumb to get it

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

Did jest.

 

[romeo212000]

The Texas Rangers' awesome scoreboard warning fans not to do The Wave - SBNation.com

Some people are just too dumb to get it

People who sit next to me and do the wave get a little of my beverage spilled in their seat while they're standing up.

 

[gregrey972]

Did jest.

Ok I have to admit...this made me laugh a little...haha

 

[Nightcrawler]

Hate to say it about a rival but the A's are freaking good this year. They might finally have the team to take all the way. It's just nuts who they do it with. It seems lucky but numbers suggest this is just who they are. This far into the season, they lead the MLB in both pitching (ERA, BAA, WHIP, amongst others) in addition to leading the MLB in offense (Most runs but 18th in AVG, the key is they get on base-lead in OBP).

If they continue to hold these ranks they will be tough for anyone to stop. And I think they are doing it without 2 of their starters-one really good one. How is it that pitchers just find their stuff there? I mean its crazy how many pitchers go there and find their best stuff again. Kazmir looks like the guy doing it this season. Jesse Chavez and Drew Pomeranz have seemed to find something there too. Also, it almost seems like they hit on nearly every pitching prospect too.

I mean like them or not you really have to tip your cap to what they are able to do with there pitching on such a tight budget. They really must have some of the best pitching scouts and pitching development programs there are.

I still have no idea where this offense comes from though. I look at the lineup and the numbers they produce just don't make sense to me.

They still have to do it in the playoffs. The playoffs is a different style of baseball. The A's won't be seeing mediocre pitchers anymore. They will see pitchers who throw good quality strikes. I'm not giving those guys any credit until they make it to the World Series.