16-12 the rest of the month
Assuming the Rangers don't score 10 runs in the final 4 innings of tonight's game (while holding the Yanks scoreless), Texas will be 10-16.
There are 28 games remaining in May. If the Rangers go 16-12 over that span, they will be 26-28, two games below .500.
I think that's the dividing line. At 26-28, assuming that the Angels aren't en fuego in May, the team is probably close enough that you can drink the Kool-Aid and say that the team can still contend.
At 25-29, though...you are 4 games under .500 two months into the season. You probably have to start making calls to try to determine what the market is for Kenny Lofton, for Eric Gagne, for Sammy Sosa, for Brad Wilkerson. And for Mark Teixeira.
This team is playing horribly right now. The team is better than they have shown, but if they can't get it in gear, that doesn't really matter. If the Rangers play poorly enough in the first two months to put themselves out of contention, it is moot.
The Rangers need 16 wins between now and the end of May.
And if they don't get those 16 wins, the highlight of the summer is going to be seeing how much the Rangers can get in exchange for Teixeira.
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Like I posted in the game thread
And, just for the record, I advocated blowing the roster up last year. They can still win with this team, but they're going to have to get off their asses. And the best-case scenario is they back into the playoffs with less than 90 wins. That's nothing to be proud of unless they go on a miraculous run and win the World Series. I'll bet the first person to respond $1000 if this team wins the whole thing. Doubt I get any takers.
Should've blown it up. Millwood, Otsuka, Blalock, Young, Teixeira...these players had varying degrees of value and with them alone you could put together the makings of a championship team. Hicks doesn't have the balls for that sort of thing, though."
by Dustin on May 1, 2007 8:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Latest Trade Values
Present Trade Values reflect present realities:
Millwood, down.
Blalock, Slightly down.
Aki, slightly up.
Young, OMG! Who wants my gas-guzzling Cadillac?
Tex, OMG, who wants my gimpy-knee'd slow starter before Boras shows up?
by 3Bagger on May 1, 2007 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn, Adam...
by hurlerhurley on May 1, 2007 8:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Rangers
by lwjr on May 1, 2007 8:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
maybe we need
by hurlerhurley on May 1, 2007 8:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
5 Blow It Up Issues
- With Oakland doing the same, will they dilute the trade value?
- Good Draft Coming, so, maybe wait for that Draft to make in-roads first? (So, wait)
- Trade Tex in June-July? And if his 2007 #'s suck?
- Trade Old Guys on one-year deals, but for what?
- If you're JD, you can't claim it's time to blow-it-up, can you? Why trade Danks then? Seems sorta schizophrenic.
by 3Bagger on May 1, 2007 8:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
The Danks Trade
by rangeressary on May 1, 2007 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
True...But...
The Psycholgical Biggie was JD giving up Youth to San Diego for short-term fixes. That was last year. And you're right, that's not schizophrenia, maybe senile-dementia? Can you get that at 29?
by 3Bagger on May 1, 2007 9:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
2 pitching prospects
by SteveP on May 1, 2007 11:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you're going to start blowing up this team...
There's adequate talent on this team; just poor chemistry and no direction.
by Wharter on May 2, 2007 8:26 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
HARDEN
by kaiser on May 2, 2007 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
mojo
by hurlerhurley on May 1, 2007 8:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
At least
by isaacbrock on May 1, 2007 8:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I hope that was sarcasm
by barasch10 on May 1, 2007 9:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Are you sure?
Man, it's depressing when your team sucks. And as you all know, we have lived through a long time of our team sucking.
by texnykazrus on May 1, 2007 8:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Well...
If they lose tonight, they've shown they are a 100 loss team.
I think they are better than a 100 loss team.
by Adam J. Morris on May 1, 2007 9:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well... I don't know
AND LSB
So call me suck up, but I've always loved AJM
by hurlerhurley on May 1, 2007 10:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Ug
At least I was excited until I noticed that Chris Young has a 2 hit shutout through 7 and that Adrian Gonzalez has 7 home runs, 25 rbi's, and an eqa of .314 already.
It would be real nice to have Gonzalez ready to step in at first after we traded Tex for prospects.
by BAC on May 1, 2007 11:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Spring Training
As die-hard fans, we should have noticed the mediocrity.
Ironically, the players hazed the most have been the best. And the "sure things" have been anything but.
by 3Bagger on May 1, 2007 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Spring Training?
by a bebop a rebop on May 1, 2007 11:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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The guy's who matter most. #1 SP, #2 SP, #3 SP, etc. They all sucked in March. And still suck.
With a few exceptions, the players who struggled in March, have struggled in April. Kata, JHJ, Sosa, each were good in March. And decent in April.
The question is, are the Rangers this bad? Or just playing this bad right now?
Millwood and Padilla could get better. McCarthy (or his replacement) cannot get worse. The hitting must improve, or, we just suck.
by 3Bagger on May 2, 2007 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
So the Astros will be trading?
Oh I forgot, this only applies to the Rangers.
by Sharky on May 2, 2007 1:34 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Boy
As far as Wilkerson, I can tell you his trade value. A bean pie and a bag of corn nuts.
by DJCahill on May 2, 2007 3:32 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
May
by Arnold Babar on May 2, 2007 6:16 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Blowing it up
by rentz on May 2, 2007 7:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Rambling thoughts
I have forgot how much the team is paying Brad Wilkerson, but he is horrible. He has no clue at the plate. I am losing faith in Jon Danials. While the Chris Young trade did bring Aki, in the long run this trade will haunt the Rangers.
Just a few rambling thoughts.
Hicks is a terrible owner. The Stars have done nothing under is ownership, the Stanley Cup team was already in place when he bought them. The Rangers continue to do nothing under his ownership. I am sure his soccer team will suck within a couple of years.
by lwjr on May 2, 2007 7:50 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
better than they've shown?
based on what? some stupid pythagerian formula? past results finishing in third place?
this team sucks - they have not executed in any aspect of the game this entire season, except possibly the all important running game.
They are terrible on defense, they have terrible pitching, and the hitting is barely major league caliber
sure they can do better, but I'm not sure they are better than they have shown.
so far they have shown they are last place team, and that is exactly what they are
this goes directly back to two previous seasons when everyone held out some ridiculous false hope that being a few games back in July meant the Ranger s were close and "anything" can happen if they just get to the playoffs.
they should have blown this thing up two seasons back and definitely last year.
this is depressing - Hicks should refund every season ticket holders money and apologize for driving this thing into the ditch
by simplesimon on May 2, 2007 7:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Based on this:
And I think we know that the starting pitching, while it is not great, should be pretty solid.
Yeah, they suck at defense. I don't think that will change, unfortunately.
The fact that they're 10-15 or whatever is actually ENCOURAGING. They simply cannot play much worse than this. Hopefully.
by Dustin on May 2, 2007 4:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
They can
by Ed Coffin on May 2, 2007 12:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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