for gallagher or marshall instead of asking for one of them + murton

…what is he really going to bring in return?

At the end of last season, we’d have done just about anything for just one decent outfielder. Now we are up in arms because we have too many decent options to fill in after Hamilton (Boggs, Murphy, Byrd, Bradley, JMJ)

of Salty, Murphy, and Harrison land a guy like Greinke from KC or Johnson/Volstad from Florida?

Laird will be traded before Salty? Who would you rather keep? Has TT shown he can produce enough at the plate to warrent getting rid of Laird?

shocker. Go ahead, try and block those waiver moves :)

Now granted these are Rookie league, but I’m intrigued

His ERA has jockeyed around the four-run mark all season, but if you zero in on the walks column you see something interesting, and hard to diagnose.

In his first nine appearances this season, spanning 16 innings, Hamburger didn’t walk anyone, striking out 19.

In his next seven appearances, spanning nine innings, he issued 13 walks, striking out 11.

In the remaining 11 games he pitched for Elizabethton, spanning 11.2 innings, Hamburger once again walked nobody, striking out 10.

36.2 IP/ 13BB/ 40K, albeit in rookie league is definitely something you can build on, and all that as a closer.

I don’t think the organization should have dumped players and "waived the white flag" unless they were going to get legitimate returns on the trades.

those A’s should be an exciting team to watch the next couple of seasons.

This is as underwhelmed I’ve been on a trade for a while. I would have preferred to have Eddie anchor the bullpen the rest of the year and let him walk than get a minimal return. Like others have said, is this seriously all we could get for Eddie? I have to think more as offered at the deadline. If we held out on making a deal then because we still hoped to make the playoffs, then I am extremely disappointed. However I think a C- or D is a little harsh. Maybe B- to C range for me.

That being said, I’d prefer to be disappointed in the return for Eddie G in August than Tex last year…. It’s not like it will really bite us in the ass either way.

Trying to get a bounty for the guys he had to sell this year would have been difficult, but the comination of Nolan and the fact that they were playing pretty well seemed to really cloud their judgment. This deadline reminded much more of old Rangers, who always believed that eight games and four teams out of the playoffs meant that they were right in it.

Post a summary after.

Ask if it has ever been cinsidered having TAG, Eric, and Victor anchor both the Radio and TV broadcasts, simultaneously?

why he was benched?

is the weight they appear to be giving the risk/rewards, psyche, etc. If they had any thought about keeping these guys in a vain hope to be “competitive” or contend for a playoff spot, I’m disappointed. If they thought the returns just weren’t good enough to justify possibly alienating core players, I’m more sanguine about that.

I also think people are expecting JD to turn every aging veteran he trades into a Max Ramirez or Engel Beltre type talent.

Bad market.

I’m really surprised by the concern over the Guardardo trade.

But nearly everyone thought that they could have gotten more for Rauch and that they just blew it.

I don’t think they could have gotten a whole lot for Guardado, and I understand that not every trade is going to turn out like the wonders of last year’s deadline. But there have been way too many years where the Rangers vainly tried to contend when they should have been focused squarely on the future. The concern we’re expressing is for fear that attitude has returned when we thought the front office really finally had a plan in place.

There have been way too many years when the Rangers blew opportunities to acquire talent and/or make decisions on young players at this time of year because they were trying to “finish strong” or weren’t willing to give up on hope. I was really hoping that had changed, this deal arouses my fears it hasn’t.

and was a bit disappointed as well. But maybe if he can play in September and rack up some numbers he’ll move up. OF/1b/DH is just a very very strong crop of players in the AL.

Also, I’m not sure what September call-ups will do to that list. My guess is since the thresholds are percentage cutoffs, a dozen or so crap players at the bottom of the list will drop the typeA/typeB threshold a bit lower.

its how bad the return was. its not trying to assume we could have gotten some really high ceiling 17 year old A baller or a decent AA starter, its assuming you had to be able to get better than a 21 year old minor league free agent relief prospect with ok numbers in rookie ball..

im not all upset about it, it probably wouldnt have been someone likely to ever make a difference anyway, but i have a very hard time believing that when everyone was scrambling for relief pitching noone offered up better than hamburger.

…He’s probably feeling pretty good. He’s drawing a major league paycheck again.

And as for your second question: LSB has him listed on our active roster and i have never heard of him??

I can’t really answer that one. I don’t know if you’ve never heard of him.