K Rod??

by HITX on Jul 21, 2008 1:37 PM CDT

Rumored to be looking for a 5 year deal worth 75 mill, should Texas make a run at one of the Angels biggest impact players? K-Rod will be 27 years old. He is possibly the biggest difference maker on the free agent market this off season. We could move Wilson to the eighth inning. This would give the Rangers one of the top bullpens in the league for the next few years. I know that starting pitching is our biggest need but, with the best available player doctorine JD preaches, isn't this a no brainer?

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Should the Rangers make a run at signing K Rod in the off season?

Yes

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No

87 votes

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No

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by jamcadbury on Jul 21, 2008 1:38 PM CDT 0 recs

Fuck no.

by coolaid on Jul 21, 2008 1:41 PM CDT 2 recs

Not for that much I wouldn't,

and I’d be suprised if any team does that for a guy who works only one inning. Five year 60 mil tops is what he gets, imo.

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by NYTXFAN on Jul 21, 2008 1:43 PM CDT 0 recs

Health?

Isn’t he a health time bomb? That motion, his build?

by mattrpav on Jul 21, 2008 1:47 PM CDT 0 recs

i prefer it

to a slow and controlled motion like a dan haren. less stress on the arm.

by SteveP on Jul 21, 2008 1:52 PM CDT up 0 recs

No No No No No No No!!!!!!!

I’d say No a hundred times if it helped convince you

He’s looking at being a ridiculously overpaid guy whose arm may fall off at any instant. He sounds to me like a classic Angels signing, or San Fran signing. Better not be a Ranger signing…

Ugh… nightmares.

by JBImaknee on Jul 21, 2008 1:53 PM CDT 0 recs

DL

Ranger FA pitchers signings = DL

"An effortless 98" - Scott Gardner after Neftali Feliz's first AA pitch

by RangerMad on Jul 21, 2008 1:58 PM CDT 0 recs

Cut about two years and $40 million off that contract and I'll listen

Not that he’s a bad closer, but even a bad closer would have 30-35 saves at a minimum with as many opportunities as K-Rod has gotten 40 out of. Assuming eight blown saves instead of three, the Angels would still lead the division.

by Inkara1 on Jul 21, 2008 1:59 PM CDT 0 recs

Will Carroll has him tabbed

As a guy who’s likely to implode at any point.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Stuff-You-Need-Brett-Favre-action-figure-bench?urn=nfl,93739

by BudLight on Jul 21, 2008 2:05 PM CDT 0 recs

I agree with Will Carroll

He has great Francisco Cordero potential … as do most closers. There’s also a lot of talk at HH about a very self-centered personality.

by robert_d_wilfong on Jul 21, 2008 6:04 PM CDT up 0 recs

What best available player doctrine?

You mean in the draft? I’m confused.

by LiamP on Jul 21, 2008 2:07 PM CDT 0 recs

Yes, the same one

I know that it has been used in the draft. I was simply applying it here too. If that is too far of a reach, how about using the impact player through free agency doctrine, like with Gagne 2 winters ago.

by HITX on Jul 21, 2008 2:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

I don't understand.

Best player available only makes sense in the context of a draft.

Gagne wasn’t an “impact player” acquisition. He was a “let’s hope he rediscovers some of his previous form so we can flip him at the deadline” acquisition.

The closest “doctrine” that could be applied to signing a guy like KRod is ””don’t pay out the ass for closers”.

by LiamP on Jul 21, 2008 2:23 PM CDT up 0 recs

Quote from JD himself

This isn’t me talking. These were JD’s words after the signing. In addition, we were in a totally different situation at that time then I expect this team to be at the deadline next year. Simply put, Is KRod the biggest impact player on the market this off season? I think so. Would he make the Rangers a better team? Without question.

by HITX on Jul 21, 2008 3:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

"biggest impact player on the market"?

I doubt it.

I think this team is far more than a KRod away from going to the playoffs. CJ has been erratic and scary all year, but we aren’t 10 games out because of him.

Maybe you could argue that having KRod allows us to stick CJ in a setup role, and that saves a few games. But that is a stretch.

The Rangers win using their offense. This means that their scores have a much higher variance than a pitching-focused club. This means fewer 1 or 2 run games and more 4 or 5 run games (in both directions), lowering the utility of a closer. Low offense teams like the A’s and Dodgers need an impact closer, not the Rangers

by JBImaknee on Jul 21, 2008 4:06 PM CDT up 0 recs

Who is??

If it’s not KRod just curious, who would you say is?

by HITX on Jul 21, 2008 4:20 PM CDT up 0 recs

hahahaha

God I hope The Giants sign him.

Just imagine how much fun it will be in 6 years when they look back and realize they paid $200 million to two pitchers whose arms completely fell off.

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by BAC on Jul 21, 2008 2:07 PM CDT 0 recs

No way

Rather spend that money on Sheets in a heartbeat.

"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005

by Agreen07 on Jul 21, 2008 2:21 PM CDT 0 recs

+ a billion.

Ian Kinsler has finally earned the right to be the third of my co-favorite players.

by utlonghorn24 on Jul 21, 2008 2:25 PM CDT up 0 recs

or Sabbathia

While I don’t think that CJ is the closer of the future for us I think we should have some other internal candidates emerge like Madrigal or Thomas Diamond or even someone else.

"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round." - Tony Romo

by kentbenfer on Jul 21, 2008 2:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

Never spend that much money

on a reliever.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 21, 2008 2:43 PM CDT 0 recs

I really wouldn't want to spend that much money

on an entire bullpen.

Warner Madrigal makes Ezequiel Astacio look downright handsome.

by tricer on Jul 21, 2008 2:45 PM CDT up 0 recs

Cheapskate.

by LiamP on Jul 21, 2008 2:52 PM CDT up 0 recs

Agree.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 21, 2008 2:53 PM CDT up 0 recs

No

I don’t mind the idea paying for an elite shut-down closer, cause I think having a lights-out closer in the playoffs is a huge advantage, but it would have to be the perfect situation and it would have to be the absolute perfect closer.

This is not that perfect situation, and K-Rod is not the perfect closer due to his injury concerns.

I’d much rather us take that 15mm and put it towards signing CC or Ben Sheets.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Jul 21, 2008 2:59 PM CDT 0 recs

No

K-shod is no Rivera, and he acts like a tool out there. I know his save numbers are good but otherwise his numbers are down.

"I am not a never-nude" - Tobias Fünke

by jcAustin on Jul 21, 2008 3:15 PM CDT 0 recs

You're right, he isn't

Rivera is nearing the end of his career, while KRod is entering his prime. It’s been a season or 2 since Rivera was in his league.

by HITX on Jul 21, 2008 3:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

huh?

Rivera – ERA 1.22 WHIP 0.68 53K 4BBI in 44IP
Rodriquez – ERA 2.25 WHIP 1.25 45K 27BBI in 44IP

"I am not a never-nude" - Tobias Fünke

by jcAustin on Jul 21, 2008 4:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

Look at the last 3 yrs

KRods been the best, hands down. Not to mention Rivera is 38 years old.

by HITX on Jul 21, 2008 11:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

Last 3 years

ERA+
Rivera: 251, 142, 337
KRod: 264, 162, 184

WHIP:
Rivera: 0.96, 1.21, 0.67
KRod: 1.10, 1.25, 1.25

Hands down? I don’t think so.

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by bigsteve on Jul 22, 2008 11:50 AM CDT up 0 recs

No doubt

Rivera has been better. You probably can make a case that KRod will be better over the next three years, given Rivera’s age, but he sure as hell isn’t going to be worth $75m.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 22, 2008 1:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

No Way

We don’t need to spend that kind of money on a pitcher that pitches one inning on those occurrences when we have a 3 run or less lead going into the 9th.

This is the Texas Rangers, professional destroyers of hope, we're talking about. - BAC

by nikpin on Jul 21, 2008 3:33 PM CDT 0 recs

JD and Hicks should go all out

Sign CC, Sheets, K-Rod, resign Bradley. Those 4 should go for a combine 60M a year?

I would trade or let go Millwood, Padilla, Laird, Guardado, Byrd, Jennings, and Cat. Padilla would be an awesome #3 but his 11M salary makes the 60M easier to swallow. All those guys would free up something like 35M.

Bradley is making 5M now and I put into estimates that he would get something like 3 years at 10m a year. So you would only have to add 5M to the total.

So that means would would be able to add CC, Sheets, K-Rod, and Bradley’s extension for like 20M. That’s pretty good!!!

This is also not putting into account that you have players that get raises like MY.

Players added vs. players subtracted

CC > Millwood
Sheets > Padilla
K-Rod > Guardado – CJ taking Guardado’s spot.
Bradley = Bradley
Salty/Teag/Max > Laird
Boggs/Murphy = Byrd/Cat
Jennings is crap

That’s an awesome improvement for a 20M increase.

by Coolbean04 on Jul 21, 2008 4:25 PM CDT 0 recs