Bigsteve argues who should they have thrown out there and he is right that we have what we have, I feel we have what we have but have lost perspective. Last year we threw out SP like Eyre and I believe he is still in the farm, Loe and Rupe plus added Nippert. Are these guys more important to the rebuilding process than the three H’s and Mendoza? No way IMO. Would they have performed any different? Nobody knows but the performance would not have hindered the development of the youth and rebuilding process. Richard Bach used the term “Perspective, use it or lose it.” My question is did management and some fans lose perspective on the rebuilding year because of the success the team had coming into the last 10 games??? Hindsight says yes, but then again it is always 20/20.
The good will and excitement this team had 2 weeks ago has turned sour. The sour smell is made worse by the hope for this team getting back on track only a short time ago. Siging Smaok is an imperative because he is the best player available and the team needs a good PR move now IMO. We will not get equal potential in the comp pick next year.
This team needs to refocus on their plan to rebuild for the future. Their performance this year has been better than expected and probably should have been considering the Pythag vs actual performances. Good job Wash and team, lets move on.
JD need to make some moves and given his track record he probably will. If they work or not only time will tell as his past moves have been both good and bad. Hicks needs to free up some money. Given his track record I think this is not as likely as JD doing his part. But it is HIS money and not mine. The kids need to focuss on consistantcy (Wash is right) in the minors. The vets need to focus on the health and be preparred for next season as they were for this ST. The offense needs to work on their defense and range and shut up about the pitching. Next year, ahhh, next year will be better.

Nobody in the Rangers organization floated those ideas out to me. Nobody responded when I floated them out to them before I wrote my little blog item. It was my thinking about one way this could possibly play out. I also think I said pretty high up in my post that I don’t endorse walking away from him. And I do understand the need to pay him significantly above slot.

But I was just trying to point out that I don’t think the world ends if Justin Smoak isn’t willing to take a well-above-slot bonus (we’re talking in excess of $500k above slot, maybe $1 million above slot). All I was trying to do was throw out another very possibly contrary point of view about how things could play out. And how they could play out without being Barry Zito all over again. I will say this: If the Rangers don’t get Smoak and do get quality pitching this winter and more quality pitching next June and start to actually get contributions from the pitchers in the minor league system, I think they will be OK.

I also understand the logic that Smoak in a year or two could be used like Matt LaPorta in a deal for pitching. All for that. Like I said, only trying to point out that there are other solutions IF this doesn’t work out.

is that Wash has taken control of the decision concerning his rehab assignment…