Saturday morning Rangers stuff
by Adam J. Morris on Oct 24, 2009 10:16 AM CDT
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PrintRichard Durrett runs through the remaining candidates for the final spot in the Ranger rotation next season.
Elvis Andrus has been named the Rangers Rookie of the Year for 2009.
And Ben Sheets, who agreed to a two year deal with the Rangers last offseason before a physical revealed a torn flexor tendon that sidelined him for 2009, plans to be back on the mound for 2010.
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So Mike Bascik is telling us Ben Sheets is done and Ben Sheets is saying he's coming back
Gee. I just don’t know who to believe here
Honestly, its a tossup.
Justin Thomson used to say he was going to be coming back every year, up til he threw in the towel.
"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
What inside info does Bacsik claim to have?
I haven’t heard him comment on Sheets. I would love it if he signed here though.
OT: TCU has a top 10 recruiting class for this year
I wonder how much that has to do with Purke.
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
He was #4 overall
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Oct 24, 2009 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions
OT interesting article
Written about a couple of economists who believe that pitchers rely on fastballs too much especially in two strike counts. With two strikes, hitters’ OPS is 100 points higher against fastballs than non fastballs. If pitchers decreased their fastballs by 10% teams would yield 15 fewer runs per year good for two wins
http://www.walkoffwalk.com/2009/10/you-got-your-game-theory-in-my.html#more
The writer at walkoffwalk then looked at some Pitch FX data to see if the economists’ theories were supported and it seems they are. A good read for a Saturday morning.
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.
Oh, and one of the economists is the writer of Freakonomics (I've seen people chat about that 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.
Levitt is a badass
especially around these parts
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
He is a badass.
"Stats are like a woman in a fine little bikini. You can see a lot, but you can't see everything." -Dirk A. Tron
I don't think pitchers
trust their secondary stuff enough or simply don’t have the quality secondary pitches to really take advantage of that.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
that and would a pitchers OPS aginst thier secondary stuff
increase one players know to look for it more.
Secondary stuff gain as much advantage from the fact that it is a scare occurrence as it is for its different characteristics. It seems like there should be a plot trying to determine value…
JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook
OT - Just went to the Pumkin Patch in Flower Mound, off of 1171.
B.E.A.T.I.N.G.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Oct 24, 2009 12:16 PM CDT reply actions
Pumpkin Patch....misspelled earlier...
it is a place where people take their kids to pick out a pumpkin and take pics, hayrides, all that shit…..
My son hated it, my wife hated it, I hated it……there were so many people there, it was muddy…..people were throwing elbows trying to get on a bail of hay to take pics…there were bees and flies all over the place.
We went bc my brother decided to have his kid’s 3rd b-day there…at 9:30 a.m. This is something I’m going to hold over his head for a few months.
Get home, and decide I’m going to do some good and pull up 4 massive holly bushes….4 hours later, I still have 2 more to pull out.
Oh, and Cotton Patch rules.
Cheers.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Oct 24, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Good grief
If my parents had given me that sort of 3rd birthday party, I’m pretty sure I still wouldn’t have forgiven them. You definitely need to hold this over your brother’s head, and so does your nephew.
Take the kid to a tractor pull or something.
"Feldman and Feliz and and pray for…infectious disease?"--TheJeezus on Sep 9, 2009 1:01 PM PDT
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