Is a very scary question. One that may keep me up late tonight, as I ponder…

IDK-somethings gotta give, right?

SIGH…........

one that will take him in his office and chew his ass out when he makes a stupid bonehead mistake. The problem with Wash is he is too nice, the players take advantage of him. Get a Piniella like manager, or a smarter Doug Rader (black belt karate) who will get in the players face if they keep missing the cut off man or argue with the ump as runs score. The Rangers need more of a no-nonsense type. Let’s see micromanager (Buck) didn’t work, the Mr. Nice Guy players manager didn’t work, how about not so nice and no nonsense? I bet the bonehead mistakes would cease and desist, noone likes getting chewed out by the boss.

prospects. Maybe they’ll make it, maybe they won’t. I hate giving up a player who has developed and has a place in the team’s future for more prospects. Jack is that player. I can’t see dealing him for more prospects.

The pundits all stated Wright didn’t fit the Rangers plans mainly because Wright had performed meagerly and inconsistently until this year. If he stays consistent this year, rest damn assured, the Rangers will make him a part of their plan. (Jack was inconsistent for a long time and finally figured it out, so why can’t Wright?) That’s crazy to trade a successful pitcher, assuming arguendo he produces this year, just because he’s a tweener right now.

if Boston gave up a Gabbard and Murphy, two fringe but MLB ready players, plus a very, very hot young prospect – either a stud 5 tool prospect like Beltre, or a stud pitcher prospect like Feliz, I don’t care what level, I would pull that trigger in a second.

that said, I don’t want to trade anybody outside of Broussard, Catalanotto, Guardado or Fukumori without being overwhelmed

I remember one as well, but more for the reason of “Oh my god, he actually did something productive”

someone has to play 1B. I would have been happy with Shelton and Botts, I don’t understand the Broussard signing either. But really even if he keeps tanking, it’s not a disaster that will sink the organization for years. A reasonable risk. Why don’t you give some credit to Daniels for the improvement in the outfield and depth of prospects in the org? Yes, he’s made some bad deals, but I like his willingness to take risks that might pay off big. Every GM makes bad deals, you can’t just play safe.

JD sees that the 1B of the future for this organization is probably a year away from being in the big leagues. So to bridge the gap between last offseason and when Davis arrives he went looking for a one year replacement. He probably went to Wash and asked him if he had any certain players in mind for that spot simply out of courtesy. Wash mentioned BB. Now at the time Botts wasn’t considered a 1B. That didn’t happen until about midway through the offseason. After we got Shelton if I remember correctly. I believe it was after we signed Milton Bradley and it was apparent the due to bradleys injury Botts would need to find a position in the field to get more playing time. So really the options for JD were limited. There were guys like Broussard and Sean Casey and i think JD took his managers opinion into consideration on such a short term player. Had Broussard gotten off to a hot start and this stretch of play was in June or July then people wouldn’t be up in arms. He has a history of good defense having never made more than 7 errors in a season. And his bat has been serviceable throughout his career. Nobody is going to be winning any WS titles with Ben Broussard batting cleanup but he hasn’t been as bad as he’s been to start the season.

You really think that a month after coming aboard the team president is telling the manager to get his 25th man more playing time?

Really?

But unlike Salty, he has not performed well enough at AAA to justify a call-up. Maybe if he strung together 2 or 3 good starts, then you could justify calling him up, but for the short term, it’s Feldman or Murray.

Or, god forbid, Sidney Ponson (blech).

We all know Eric Hurley will be in Arlington sometime this year. But now is not the time. He went down to OKC after a decent spring and hasn’t used the momentum of a good spring in his favor. His last start was better but still nothing like what you would expect from your top pitching prospect. And certainly nothing to warrant getting called up for. There is also other issues with Hurley. Namely his 40 man status. In an ideal world you wouldn’t have to worry about 40 man rosters and options and stuff like that and could just bring up whoever you wanted whenever you wanted. But the reality is it would take alot of work to get him up. Now if one of our guys went down with a season ending injury and there was a permanent spot in the rotation we could give him then sure go ahead and do it. But for a little 2 week appearance that would ultimately force us to potentially lose a player to waivers and also burn one of his options is not the right move. How many games has German Duran played thus far in his time here? Two. Do you think those two games helped him that much that it was worth burning an option when we could have just as easily brought up a guy like Arias who is already using an option.

is commendable…

Given his previous success with regular AB’s, I thought that we’d at least be able to flip him for something serviceable. Damn, were we wrong, by about 3 years.

JD did essentially say this during ST. He was being interviewed by Josh and Tag and he stated that the measure of success for 2008 was the development of the young players. That is why there is a disconnect between Wash and JD. Washington wants to win each game. JD wants the young guys to play.

that you’re wrong