Dumb, Dumb…

Happy Birthday Minnesota, or KC, or whoever else could use a switch hitting DH-type.

This is BS. I am freaking outraged. Should have DFAed BB.

I am going to go all Miles on someone.

repeat my comments in this one.

basically… i would rather have DFA’d broussard or various others, but Botts needed to show something, even in 50-100 at bats at a time, and he hasn’t. Id rather look at botts/shelton and DFA broussard, but im not going to get that upset over botts anymore as long as its not broussard getting at bats vs lefties.

Shelton has a better minor and major league track record than botts and is only a month older, and combine that with his emergency catcher ability that makes it even easier to use salty as a DH or pinch hitter when hes not catching. I like having shelton up and think the swap is fine for the team. Neither are long term solutions though.

Botts wont be picked up. Hopefully when broussard continues this debacle of a season he will be released and botts will get another 200+ at bats as a final chance.

So uh yeah.. my preference would be botts/shelton splitting time and broussard gone, but its not that big of a deal.

this is fucking rediculous how can i root for this pathetic franchise, every year i buy season tix or game packages and feel like a huge f’ing sucker by MAY. i know Botts hasn’t been hot but since he has had time to play he has been servicable a lot more frigging servicable than that fraud BennyB(who I wanted) this makes no baseball since at all I hope Botts gets claimed by somebody and makes frigging ivy league fraud P.O.S GM eat it every time we play them. who’s next in a rebuilding year that we are suppose to be finding out what we have we DFA Tejeda, Gallaraga, Cruz and Botts and keep Guardado,Broussard, and sign Kaz Fukup(hes 31) great job J.D. Way to see what you got I know these guys haven’t proven anything yet but there upside is so much more than a bunch of 30 something topped out stop gaps. I need to find a national league team to root for.

as bad as broussard has been, there really is nothing to suggest that botts in any way is a better player, offensively or defensively. and there actually is enough to suggest that shelton is better than botts, especially when it comes to hitting lefthanders.

i don’t like that this move was done after 2 weeks of “regular” playing time, especially since they probably went to rudy and he a gave a definitive declaration like “he’ll never be good.” But if you had to make a move, i think this is the right one.

I don’t think Botts gets picked up either but I’m not so sure of it.

Shelton gives the club a 3rd catcher. We’ll see Salty more at DH now.

From Texas Rangers Blog

Richard Durrett

Jason Botts is disappointed that he’s been DFA’d and is ready to move on. Some of his comments:

“I think I’ve been here for a pretty long time and I deserve a fresh start somewhere else. It’s not the most negative thing to me right now that this has happened. I’m excited about it.”

Asked if he thinks he’ll get back to the majors?

“I don’t know. I think there’s plenty of examples of people leaving the Texas Rangers and going on to really great things. There could be something huge in my future. Kind of an exciting moment.”

Not that I wanted Botts to fail (I wanted him to do well), but given that he has been quite simply BAD while in Texas, I can’t blame them for DFA’ing him.

But I will be happy to not have to hear people whining about him not getting playing time. He’s a guy who cannot field and cannot hit. He got his fair shot

We let go someone who cant play defense and is only held on for his hitting skills, which he did not seem to have?

So we DFA’d someone who could not field and could not hit? Damn, what a terrible organization. Everybody should be fired.

I also think he’ll clear waivers.

I liked Botts look and plate presense, rather intimidating.

I understand why the club wants to go this route, and I completely understand why Botts has already thrown a verbal jab at the organization.

He was very patient while this club wasn’t giving him a shot. I would have liked to have seen him play at least half the season up here.

If Botts is claimed, it’s the best thing that could happen to him. If he’s sent back to AAA, I see him being packaged off in some sort of deadline deal. His future is not with this organization. Good Luck Jason.

Shelton at 1B
Salty catching
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couldnt we have dfa’d nippert i think we are all forgetting who the worst guy on our 40 man is

I’ve mentioned before that I went to high school with him at Paso Robles High School. Now I cover sports for the newspaper in the next town over (Atascadero, which is Paso Robles’ biggest rival) and I talked to the former AHS baseball coach (retired from coaching now but runs the scoreboard and announces at games still). He said he remembered Botts as a pitcher and as not much of a hitter in his high school days.

I found it interesting.

I am in the camp that wishes it would have been BB instead of Botts DFA’d, but dear lord. People are getting all worked up because we DFA’d a 28 year old DH that hasn’t hit AT ALL in 350+ PAs in his big league career. He was a 46th round draft pick. The guy replacing him is the same age and has a better minor league and major league track record.

Who cares? Is this the next Travis Hafner, Carlos Pena or AGon? NO. He may turn out to be a servicable DH, but the kind of servicable that you can get anywhere. Either way, he’s a non-factor and will still be in the organization. However, after his comments, I wouldn’t mind if they gave him his outright release and let him go see what organization is going to give him 500 ABs without any kind of performance to get acclimated to the big leagues.

You would have thought that we released Hamilton.

isn’t just that Botts got DFA’d. It’s the way his whole career has been managed, i think he should have gotten his shot sooner. I know people will say he needed to make them give him a shot but how many times was he blocked by older declining players? The guy’s 28 now and most players seem to hit their prime in that 27 to 29 year range. Half a season of sporadic at bats and obviously it’s got to be difficult to get into a groove or make adjustments when you don’t know if you’re playing, sitting or being put on a plane.

Obviously I’m sad that it happened and wish we could’ve just plugged him into the lineup until the All-Star break and see if he could adjust to major league pitching if given an extended shot… but the fact is that Botts had a chance to show something, anything and pooped out a big steamy pile of foul-smelling fail. Some of us Botts-lovers might not think he got a “fair shake”, but he didn’t hit at all in his “unfair shake”, so that’s that, I guess.

I still think he has the potential to be a good major league hitter, and I really hope he catches on somewhere else and ownerships the whole league.

But I put the odds of him getting claimed at 15%, so he’ll probably stick around OKC at least a few more months.

Bleck.

I’m sad.

I was pretty upset earlier. I recorded the game and when I saw Shelton at 1B I was excited that the Rangers finally DFA’d BB. When I heard it was Botts I was fucking pissed. Now I realize that I was/am over-reacting but this just makes no sense. BB has no place on this team. Especially with Shelton here now.

I have been a fan of JD for the most part, but I just don’t get this move. This team was not going anywhere this year or last year and to only get him a month of AB’s here and a month of AB’s there just isn’t right. After reading his comments I can’t say that I really blame him for being upset. Yes he could have performed much better in th short time he was given, but I am one of the few that thinks he may have been able to figure it out.

I like Botts (maybe not as much as Dirkatron but…) and really hope he catches on somewhere else and succeeds, but I think he will clear waivers and end up in OKC which means he will not get another shot until the Rangers release him outright. For whatever reason JD and Co. don’t want to give him a fair shot imo. And the comments he made aren’t going to help that either.

BB is dead to me. Screw that guy. He is meaningless and I loath the fact that he is still on this team. End of overreacting rant.

are bad for a reason.

wasn’t it just a week or 2 ago when JD had his “talk” with Wash about playing him more? What could he have possibly seen that made him change his mind and DFA him in such a short period f time? I just don’t get it.