Jim Callis chat

by Adam J. Morris on Dec 26, 2007 3:12 PM CST in News

Jim Callis did a chat session today...one of the highlights:

Rangers Question Please! TEXAS: A couple of Rangers questions, What is your take on the Hamilton/Volquez trade and what is your take on the state of the Rangers minor league system? THANKS!

SportsNation Jim Callis: (2:28 PM ET ) Rangers have really restocked their system in the last year via trades and the draft. I loved that deal from the Texas side. I know the Reds have more outfielders than they know what to do with, and I guess they felt like Hamilton's body won't hold up after all the abuse he has subjected it to. But I don't believe in Volquez.

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Wow, what insight from Callis!

sarcasm intended

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by RangerMoto on Dec 26, 2007 2:57 PM CST reply actions

Callis

plenty of vigor, a little short on vim.

Tomorrow Never Knows

by t ball on Dec 26, 2007 3:18 PM CST up reply actions

yeesh

'vim' gave me unix flashbacks...

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by RangerMoto on Dec 26, 2007 3:34 PM CST up reply actions

I guess you have to pay

to get his "good stuff."

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by inactive lsb user on Dec 26, 2007 3:56 PM CST up reply actions

I know I tend to

...be a Callis apologist, but what exactly are you guys finding fault with there? Misguided or just to brief and obvious? If it's the latter, what exactly would you say in a chat where you answer like 50-100 questions and have already gone into detail on BA.com about what you thought of the trade, as well as your thoughts on the Rangers system as a whole?

If it's the former, being concerned about Hamilton's health and not buying into Volquez are off base?

Also, you have to pay to get that stuff as well, just ESPN (or BA).

by Brett Perryman on Dec 26, 2007 7:18 PM CST up reply actions

My beef?

"I don't believe in Volquez."

why? any data or reasoning behind that?

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by RangerMoto on Dec 26, 2007 7:55 PM CST up reply actions

Yes, I would say so

The guy has been following him fairly closely for like three years now. We've heard all kinds of opinions echoing that around here and otherwise since the trade has gone down, and I'm pretty sure that Callis has stated in greater detail previously why he doesn't really believe in him (no breaking ball to speak of, questionable command).

If you read his chats regularly, you know that his answers in them are generally very brief, with little background for his opinions, mostly because of the pure volume of answers he gives each time, but also because he is on the record for most of these things in other forums and is answering things for the 40th time (as is the case with that trade).

I don't agree with Callis - at least to some degree - on lots of players, but I've found that he is one of the few guys around who I quite often find that when I do disagree, I turn out to be wrong and he turns out to be right. That makes me want to at least respect his opinion. I guess you're welcome to be more suspicious.

by Brett Perryman on Dec 26, 2007 8:19 PM CST up reply actions

the insight helps

thanks, z

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by RangerMoto on Dec 26, 2007 8:23 PM CST up reply actions

also...

...are you guys gonna do an opening day countdown like last year? Or are you waiting for SN 2.0 before you make the html change?

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by RangerMoto on Dec 26, 2007 8:24 PM CST up reply actions

for the record

I'm not a Callis supporter or detractor, just felt like making a snide comment.

Tomorrow Never Knows

by t ball on Dec 26, 2007 10:48 PM CST up reply actions

For the Record

I don't believe in Volquez, either.

by FuturePants on Dec 27, 2007 9:06 AM CST up reply actions

It's a chat

you normally don't go into a full scouting analysis in a chat.

Personally, I don't believe in Volquez as anything other than a back rotation/reliever guy either.

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by DJCahill on Dec 27, 2007 9:40 AM CST up reply actions

Any Rangers on his top 50

Hop on the bandwagon while It's still fashionable: Rickey Henderson for Centerfield in '08!

by BudLight on Dec 26, 2007 5:55 PM CST reply actions

I can't find his top 50 on the Internet

On Sickels' site someone posted highlights from the top 50. No Rangers were included. :( I'm guessing Andrus won't be there.

by Ajax on Dec 26, 2007 8:32 PM CST up reply actions

I think you're right

...that there won't be a Ranger on there.

As far as Callis' top 50, I think that the reason he's throwing them out there is that he has finished hit list that is going into the Prospect Handbook, in which each of their main editors give their top 50s as a frame of reference and a preview for their top 100, which is about the last thing that they put out in terms of the seasonal cycle of rankings.

by Brett Perryman on Dec 26, 2007 9:11 PM CST up reply actions

Honestly

I can't think of a Ranger who deserves to be on anyone's top 50.

And that's coming from a Rangers apologist.

But we sure do have a ton of dudes who fit in the 51-200 range.

"God plays by his own rules, folks. And HGH is f***ing legal as hell up in heaven." -Andy Pettitte

by thedirkatron on Dec 27, 2007 2:25 AM CST up reply actions

ditto

The Rangers might have more guys in that 50-200 range than any other team. In a year or two they might have several guys who are 100 and a handful of top 50.

Tomorrow Never Knows

by t ball on Dec 27, 2007 6:40 AM CST up reply actions