about not blocking their own guys with over-the-hill marginal vets anymore?

Guys with a swing like Botts need consistent playing time to get in a groove. He was (deliberately) deprived of that opportunity by Washington.

In his last 16 plate appearances, Botts gave the Rangers 6 walks, a home run and a double. I think he was about to get locked in (historicallly, big walk numbers anticipate a Botts breakout).

In 80 plate appearances this year, Broussard has given the Rangers 5 walks, three homers and no doubles. Plus, he sucks.

Plus, this boils down to a guy who should not have a job and won’t be here in a year (Washington) calling the shots and getting his way with another guy who shouldn’t have a job and won’t be here in a year (Broussard).

does not know how to rebuild. and, this is why we have no hope for a couple years from now which is what they always say. We’ll compete in 2 years. Well, they never do because they don’t know how go through the growing pains of a young player. It makes me sick to see the players the rangers give away just before they make it to the bigs. It also makes me sick to think of what is going to happen with the current crop of youngs players on the cusp.

I keep thinking back to Adam’s recent post about the plan vs. the implementation. Daniels seems to have the right idea about how to rebuild on a theoretical level, but the implementation makes no sense. Botts may well have failed if given the chance, but it makes no sense to ‘save the season’ if that disrupts the building process, esp. to keep a one-year reclamation project like BB on board. As always with this team, the short-term trumps the long-term…and the long term never really seems to improve.

And NothinG is so right. What are we going to do when all this promising prospects start to break in. Sigh.

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The front office does not want to disintegrate the fan base by letting the season get out of hand.

However, I would think any “fanbase” we lose that way would probably be very easy to recover once we field a winning team. However, by trying to cater to the more fickle fans through hole pluggers, not playing younger future players when they are ready, and not giving enough looks to question marks, it probably pisses off those more loyal fan base a whole lot more. More importantly, it is going to dramatically slow the rebuilding process.

I suspect his upside might be to be what Cat is now. A marginal platoon hitter with no defensive ability.

However, that being said, I still don’t understand the Broussard fascination. As I said during spring training, he is a butcher in the field, he can’t hit, and they are paying him way too much. He will not help you win today, he will not help you win in the future.

However, it is also tough to get on board with all the hubbub over cutting Botts. He’s 28, he can’t field, and he hasn’t been able to hit. Personally, I would have given him ABs to at least Memorial Day or maybe the Fourth of July, but its easy to see in closed door meetings, Rudy telling them he doesn’t think he will ever be a big time hitter.

Didn’t JD sorta give Wash an “order” to play Botts over the road trip? That wasn’t much more than a week ago. How does this team go from “play Botts instead of Broussard” to “DFA Botts” in such a short span of time?

I have to wonder if there’s some sort of insider reason we aren’t hearing about, like an article I read earlier this season about a younger pitcher (I wanna say Tejeda) who gave up a walk-off homer and stayed on the mound, thinking he had another batter to face.

Did they just decide that, given our current defensive woes, we don’t have space for another defensive liability? What do you guys think?