on the sauce?

to add R A Dickey to that pitching list…..or was that Hart that got rid of him?

JD is the fuck up.

See, the thing is, it isn’t a glass. It’s a bottle. And the bottle has a neck. That’s called a bottleneck. So what’s in the bottle may never come out, or alternately, could be lost in the fizz if the bottle is shaken.

As long as John Hart is the franchise’s bottleneck, I won’t blame JD, Wash, Nolan Ryan, or Adam Morris for anything that goes wrong. His presence at drafts and deadlines nauseates me.

better stuff than stinking ass Harrison

In my last blog entry. I’m not a minor league guru or anything (like Jason Parks or thedirkatron) but here’s what I came up with:

As for Hunter, he will become just the second player from the class of 2007 draft to make it to the Majors (the Washington Nationals Ross Deitwiler got a callup and pitched a single inning last September) after just 161 total minor league innings. Hunter, a 22-year old right-hander who is listed as 6′ 3″ 255 (although most personal accounts believe him to be heavier than that) throws an 89-94 MPH fastball along with a breaking ball that is supposedly his best pitch, and a changeup tossed in for good measure. None of his three pitches are really considered above-average, just solid – it’s probably due to this fact that he’s seen his strikeouts decline as he’s climbed the minor league ladder, which has in turn made his control an increasingly key part of his success.

Hunter started 2008 with high-A Bakersfield, where he logged 58 innings and went 5-4 with a 3.55 ERA, a 1.22 WHIP, and an excellent K/9 of 7.71. Promoted to AA Frisco in May, his numbers jumped to a 3.78 ERA and a 1.32 WHIP, as his K/9 was slashed to 4.82 and his BB/9 spiked from just 1.23 in Bakersfield to 2.92 in 52 innings. That’s a notable spike, but Hunter was quick to adjust, rediscovering his control after a promotion to AAA Oklahoma – he has put up a 1.08 BB/9 since the jump, and has subsiquently gone 2-2 with a 3.24 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP in 33 innings despite his K/9 dropping slightly again to 4.59.

Hunter sounds to me like another Joe Blanton, only with better control – a guy who will probably give up his fair share of hits, but will also get enough outs with his stuff to be a solid starter. His swift rise through the system this year has so far concurred with what the Rangers projected him as – a quick-starting back of the rotation innings eater who might provide us with some stability in the 4th or 5th spot in the rotation by 2010 if not 2009. If he performs well, I could conceivably see him knocking Luis Mendoza (who is back to being horrible of late) or Feldman (to limit his innings) to the bullpen for awhile, and sticking in the rotation until the Rangers decide to shut him down for the season – this should be a very interesting debut.

nevermind

if you want to know the how I feel. We needed to trade for pitching