okay, not so many I guess.

now that it is actually happening, I find myself being very upset by it. Davis better be up in a month. Davis’s numbers prove that he needs some development time in the majors.

his salary isn’t cheap for a pinch hitter or fill-in type.

I think there are other options available to teams looking for someone like Cat that will be easier to acquire.

Did anyone else find this part odd?

“Catcher Gerald Laird said such chemistry is one reason a team that fell 7 ½ games out of first place a month into the season finds itself within 7 ½ of first at the All-Star break.”

So thanks to positive chemistry, they’re exactly the same number of games out of first now as at they were on May 1?

I know that’s probably supposed to be a good thing considering how poorly they played the first month, but it struck me as an odd quote…

Unless he comes back and just mashes the crap out of the ball while bounding around the infield like a gazeelse screaming at the top of his lungs, “I’m healthy! I’m healthy!”

Seriously, what team would be interested in him right now, and what could we possibly get?

gazeelse = gazelle

I’m half retarded this morning.

thediraktron no function coffee well without.

I think. The guy can’t even play 1B, let alone 3B. Again, it’s just incredibly sad to think what it looked like his career would be a few years ago and what it’s become.

If he is playing instead of Davis in August I’ll be very disappointed.

This situation is sticky….

-Blalock could come in and play extremely well for 2 weeks, and we probably would still get very minimal back in a trade.

-Were are sending down a young player that was holding his own and is the future.

Here is a question for you?

Next year, Will the Rangers pick up Blalocks option and let him DH while Davis takes over 1B …...then let Bradley go for 2 picks?

Surely not….while both are injury risk, Miltons right-handed bat and the way that he works the pitcher is much more valuable than anything Blalock brings to the plate.

If only that Beckett deal would not have fell through….stupid Marlins!

I don’t know why people are getting all riled up about Blalock taking over for him for a few weeks or even until September. Davis is 22, he hasn’t seen more than 65 plate appearances, and he’s not perfect out there.

Ideally, this is what I see as happening:

1. Blalock comes up, and gets time at first base. I doubt he’ll be traded, as two weeks really isn’t enough time to convince a team to give up anything useful for a guy off the DL at a new position. However, by September the Rangers will know what they have with Hank, and I bet his trade value will increase by then (as dirkatron says, its as low as it has ever been right now)

2. Davis goes down to OKC and is able to improve his game. (Pause while people laugh at me for saying that…). Davis looks like Mark McGwire out there, which isn’t a bad thing, but I doubt he’s going to maintain the 1 homer every 10 ABs pace he’s had. And if you aren’t hitting 60 homers a year, you’d better put up a better BA than .259 and a better OBP than .328. He’s K’s 1 in 4 ABs so far.

Sure, we all have known for a while that Davis K’s while hitting his homers, but I’d like to see him polish his game up a little bit. Because if he can swing a little less and take a few more walks while maintaining his production, he’ll be a superstar. And I think its easier for him to learn that away from Arlington

and not trade vets and send young guys down when vets get healthy, im gonna have a very hard time cheering this team on for the future. i guess with nolan and his imaginary ability for us to win it all this year, the best i can hope for long term is a meltdown and double digits out by the deadline so he cant possibly say we have to go fot it. otherwise we are being led by a guy whose long term vision is shit.

nolan: we can win it all
jd: our pitching is shit (2nd worst in baseball) and our best trade piece walks for picks 5 years off from contributing if we blow this. didnt you used to play this game?
nolan: im from houston, we always go for it. we can win it all.
jd: shoots self.

“Chris Davis is safe. Chris Davis is safe.” + Hank didn’t play 1B last night in Frisco. = ???

Yeah.

actually IS because of his injuries? he did it before the wrist problems and if hes healed from carpal tunnel then I dont know why he couldnt throw accross diamond anymore…

everything I recall has just been speculating, and while its a definite possibility I dont know that you can really just assume so (again, barring quotes or a story i never saw).

at the time the move was made it was still thought davis would be down for quite a while, and shelton/cat was giving us no power from 1b. He and wash supposedly thought it was better for the team for him to play 1b. Well, now its not.

then the actual move was delayed months by blalock’s injuries, and of course davis has emerged.

all blalock said that i saw was that he doesnt want to be yanked back and forth. would getting moved back to 3b before ever playing a mlb game, and only playing a couple minor league games, at 1b really qualify as being yanked around?