Screwed Bmac up. IMO

First inning was pretty painful to watch. Not sure if it was the delay, nerves, or what but his control just sucked.

His velocity was ok. Got up to 91 a few times but still was at 89/90 most of the time. I guess he can survive on that if he hits the corners, keeps it down and has his offspeed stuff going good, but those high fastballs he throws scare me. I was impressed with his offspeed stuff when he was able to locate it. Let’s just hope he builds on this and keeps improving over his next 4/5 starts. The Rangers really need this guy for the rotation next year.

that first inning had disaster written all over it. So settling down for an OK outing was a positive.

2008 – yep, it can’t end soon enough.

For a guy that hasn’t pitched in a year, he was very impressive to me. He could throw any pitch at any time in the count and threw them for strikes. He had most of the Indians fooled and the only thing that hurt him was that 89mph pitch he thought he could blow past the hitters eyes that got hit to the wall. Looked a ton better than he did in the past and this is just the first start.

I could live wit hit a little longer:

At this point, in terms of draft position, we are currently at 12th. From what recent weeks have shown, its a pretty safe bet that Cleveland (2 back) and Colorado (3 back) will pass us. After that, there are certain other teams that could pass us as well. Furthermore, not counting the previous 2 teams that I just mentioned, there are 6 other teams (Baltimore, Oakland, Atlanta, Pitt, Cinc., SF) within 6 games in the win column. Of those teams, Balt is the closest at 2 games out of the win column. However, they probably have too tough a schedule to pass the games. As for the other 5, I see SF, with Zito at least somewhat turning it around, and with the rest of that strong rotation possibly passing the Rangers. Therefore, we may end up having a very solid 9th pick in the draft. Hey, I could live with losing a few more weeks if our draft position continues to improve….

I’m curious to know how a fairly polished young pitcher comes to the Rangers and has his curve and change — his two best pitches — regress.

You are curious about that?

The Good- Woo Hoo BMac is back. He looked decent for his first time out. He’ll get better and better barring any more injuries.

The Bad- Josh Rupe….What a disaster of an outing. I’m with you Ed Coffin some trailer park has lost it’s idiot so Josh get in that trailer til I say you can come out.

The Ugly- I’m over you too Mad Dog. You remind me of one of the bats I used to kill with a tennis racket when I was a kid. They’d sneak into the house from the attic on occasion.
Look at his face closely… BAT FACE!!

Can anyone explain why we haven’t heard any thing at all about Rick Peterson? After the Mets fired him, I figured it was just a matter of time before he got hired in Arlington, especially considering the ties he has with Wash. I know he’s not the “be all, end all” of pitching coaches, but couldn’t he help somehow? I’m terribly afraid this organization is going to screw around and permanently ruin BMac, Hurley, Harrison, et al.

Every pitcher has his own personal coach. Find out who was the coach most responsible for that pitcher being a highly rated pitcher at one point and bring him in to work with that pitcher every day.