Heyman on Rangers Sale Situation
by Adam J. Morris on Oct 13, 2009 12:44 PM CDT
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PrintJon Heyman has some notes on the situation in regards to the Rangers being sold...
He has some praise for Jon Daniels (who splits a third place vote on his A.L. exec ballot), and says that both Chuck Greenberg and Dennis Gilbert would likely leave the front office intact if either of their respective groups prevailed...
He also specifically addresses the speculation about Kevin Towers' connections with Gilbert...I would just as soon see the front office be left alone, but Towers isn't someone who scares me. Similarly, the rumored Sandy Alderson group wasn't something that worried me...I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone better to be at the top of an MLB team's organizational chart than Alderson.
The rumors about having Tim Purpura and Don Baylor come in to take over as g.m. and manager, respectively, early in the 2007 season were scary. But I don't see Towers or Alderson being involved with the Rangers in a negative light.
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Andre Either is 4th in his MVP ballot.
Fucking Heyman.
"Andre Either is 4th in his MVP ballot"
or….. or what? Don’t leave me hanging here.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
by WyoRanger on Oct 13, 2009 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Fun fact
Ian Kinsler (4.6) Michael Young (3.9) Nelson Cruz (3.6) and Elvis Andrus all put up better WAR’s than Ethier (2.6). And that’s just on our team.
There’s an absolute ton of people who where more valuable than Andre Ethier this year, and I say that as a guy who really loves Andre Ethier. Ethier had a pretty good offensive season for sure, but he’s a really shitty RF.
Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock
Hmmm
I can’t agree with his executive ratings. I’m sorry but saying you hit on your 20+ million a year purchases shouldn’t be the basis for being considered a good executive. It should be the basis for remaining an employed executive.
His argument seems to be having the most money makes you the best executive. Possibly true, but not very enlightening.
What do voluntary mean?
Can anybody tell me exactly what JD did
after 2008 to merit a split third place vote for Executive of the Year?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
Moved MY to 3B.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
Kissed
a Nolan Ryan rookie card every night before bed
"More than likely JW never played sports above the youth level. It amazes me that he seems to have no concept on the common reactions of an adult athlete or their normal interactions between each other." - laxonto
by Michael Cave on Oct 13, 2009 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Saw his pieces that he got come into place.
As well as some others succeed to an extent in the minors. Get over the trades, Josey, it’s good for your soul.
What did he do wrong?
And before you tell me “didn’t get a high OBP guy” explain who that guy would have been, who the Rangers would have traded to get him and/or where the damn money would come from to sign him.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
They should have picked up Nick Johnson who went for a song
to the Marlins.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
lol
pesky little details….
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Oct 13, 2009 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Nick Johnson hurt??
What were the odds of that…
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Oct 13, 2009 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions
For someone who has averaged under 60 games
in the life of his current contract? Inconceivable!.
What do voluntary mean?
SO...
your move would be to get a high obp guy such as Nicholas Johnson, who has averaged 90 games per year in his career….
Yes or no?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Oct 13, 2009 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
OK - Nick Johnson
Traded for on 7/31/09, started 12 games in Aug and 20 in Sept/Oct. He would have been an 8 game swing?
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
And he only had a .277 BA and a SLG barely over .400
Which tells me while he may have walked alot he would have been stranded alot and wouldn’t have driven many men home.
The first thing the Rangers need to address is getting their BA up. OBP will follow. Losing Bradleys OBP wasn’t as big a hit as losing his .321 BA from last year. Having guys drop 20,30,50 points in BA from last year to this year didn’t help either. Get those numbers back up and our offense has fixed alot of its issues.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Brilliance!
It’s like a revival of Hamlet!
Go, Josey bit, go! Go, Josey bit, go!
What do tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit?
Honestly
It reminds me a bit more of The Persecution & Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton Asylum under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, but to each his own, I suppose…
"I cannot believe how fucking off base I was about Tiny E before this season. The Kid is great and is going to become a star."
- Wails
LOL
Yeah, what good is a masters’ degree in European history if you can’t name-drop obscure plays about the French Revolution on occasion?
I also wrote an essay for my exit exam on DeSade’s political theories, the most interesting one being his suggestion that the best way for women to gain political power was through the use of sexual favors to influence powerful men. Ahead of his time, the Marquis was…
"I cannot believe how fucking off base I was about Tiny E before this season. The Kid is great and is going to become a star."
- Wails
Just to answer the question.
Yeah, what good is a masters’ degree in European history
Absolutely none at all.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
At this point
any GM coming in would reap the rewards of all the talent acquired in the last two-three years, a la Melvin in the 90s.
Alderson would be interesting, since he deserves quite a bit of credit for the reputation of Beane and the A’s over the last couple decades.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
I'm too sexy for my shirt
Kevin Towers, courtesy Gaslamp Ball
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
I don't know why, but that guy looks like he knows how to party.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Oct 14, 2009 5:42 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't know about Towers
so what makes him a bad choice? Why do you make the statement with no explanation?
Drama?
Just responding to this comment from Adam
I would just as soon see the front office be left alone, but Towers isn’t someone who scares me.
Seemed like it was a similar level of detail as the comment that I was responding to, but oh well.
I don’t care for Towers’ style or results. He has had some good teams, but his organization has been described repeatedly of late as the most delusional in baseball in their evaluations of their own players. He was throwing around money in Latin America last year like someone who had a limitless budget (a couple of the bonuses were laughable), and this year they’ve faded back.
He’s been there for a long time with a lot of control over things, and he’s brought in high profile baseball people. They have had loads of draft picks and spent all that money internationally, yet they’re among the least talented organizations in baseball.
by Brett Perryman on Oct 14, 2009 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
and if Daniels hadn't gifted him
Gonzalez where would they be?
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
is David McDavid
still interested???
hell.. is he’s still interested in buying controlling interest of the Texas Rangers???
2010? 2011? 2012? 2013? 2014? 2015?
I think he said
he was out.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
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