And you’ve based it on an article in which a guy says Guardado and Benoit are the only guys on the staff with above average breaking balls?

isn’t going anywhere. If anything, the recent string of success with young kids and recent acquisitions has solidified his position.
I also don’t think the firings are just a ‘win now’ decision. Like everyone else has documented, this staff has a long history of underperforming (and those that leave find success). When that happens, there is no value in giving it more time. We need to get the proper coaches and philosophy in place so we don’t scew up this next generation of prospects (Feliz, Main, etc…). I think the firing is a solid long-term decision, not a nearsighted one.

Nolan Ryan is starting to assert himself more as club president of the Rangers. Ryan was a driving force behind the removal of pitching coach Mark Connor and bullpen coach Dom Chiti.

thank you nolan!!!!

btw: i dont think that you can stretch the connection to GM, neither one of those guys had anything at all to do with the current regime. no connection what so ever. so to then connect them is kinda a stretch.

is going nowhere, he just got an extension.

Hicks won’t let this happen. He doesn’t want to pay off Daniels for the next 4 or whatever years.

when I click reply, it gives me this:

http://www.lonestarball.com/2008/8/7/588895/more-rangers-pitching-talk#

get rid of Daniels. He’s getting better all the time.

about people who use unnamed sources to lend credence to what may be one guy’s opinion. “Scouts say” or” a highly placed official suggests” tend to set off a red flag with me. Sometimes there is substance there but just as often there is not. I see no sign that Nolan is unhappy with Jon and I think the idea that Nolan wants Jon gone is a red herring.
Sure, some of the Ranger pitchers are probably being moved to the majors before they are ready but the fact is they are the best the Rangers have and choices are limited.

he’d have some of his own track record to hang him. I’ll let other list the litany of pitchers who are gone who are better than what we currently have. Personally, I wouldn’‘t fire him, but, he’s dug his grave, and given others enough reasons.

I still think he is our GM next year though.

Botts wasn’t doing his job (hitting), Broussard wasnt doing his job (hitting), Mark Connor and Chiti weren’t doing there jobs (getting the best out of there pitchers) , JD IS doing his job (building a winning franchise from top to bottom) so I think he is safe, although I can see Ron getting the ax if the team doesnt make the playoffs. It was very clear to me game after game that the pitchers were not properly prepared to pitch, this has to go back on the pitching coaches.

that should be fired is the team trainer.

“it was forced upon him by Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels”

doesn’t sound like a unilateral decision by Ryan to me.

how he’s going to make this team into a contender. But, when no major moves happen to get in really good guys, I think Ryan fires him. In fact, the axe could come over some trade Daniels refuses to make

I don’t see getting rid of Connor and Chiti as some sort of big Nolan WC push. They had no confidence in their pitching coaches so why stick with them through the end of the season with so many young pitchers up here now? Will it help our WC chances? I think so. Is it the key to getting to the playoffs? No, that would have been not starting 9-18.

...my body had some kind of allergic reaction soon afterwards, and my left ankle, where the bite is, is swollen to hell this morning…

it doesn’t hurt, but… damn… what the hell bit me?

JD is not going anywhere. No point to think otherwise.

Benoit looked pretty good last night. It would be huge if he was his old self again.

If you recall, Chris Shelton was called up, and Jason Botts needed to be released, because “something needed to be done.”

Not true.