Jim Callis chat today

CBC (san marcos): Does any team have a better trio of prospects than the Rangers' Smoak/Feliz/Perez?
Jim Callis: Nope. That's the best prospect trio.

Callis has a couple of other Rangers-related questions as well.

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Other Rangers Q's

Tim (Dallas)

Scheppers or Crow? (assume both remain healthy)
Jim Callis (2:16 PM)

If you can guarantee health, I’d take Scheppers. But if you can’t, I’d take Crow.

Nick (Seattle)

Who was a higher rated prospect, Felix Hernandez or Neftali Feliz?
Jim Callis (2:43 PM)

King Felix.

Jeff (Dayton)

Martin Perez, Casey Kelly, or Matt Moore. Highest ceiling? Highest probability of success?
Jim Callis (2:50 PM)

Perez has the highest ceiling. I’ll say Kelly has the highest probability, because he has the best feel for pitching.

Daniel (SF)

lightning round: Madison Bumgarner or Derek Holland?
Jim Callis (2:51 PM)

Bumgarner.

by Agreen07 on Oct 28, 2009 3:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm surprised that he thinks Perez has less of a feel for pitching than Kelly.

I always thought Perez was far ahead of other prospects in his pitching IQ.

Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.

by rooster on Oct 28, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well

Kelly is is about two years older and American so their going to say that about him

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Oct 28, 2009 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it is one of those things

to where Callis probably thinks both have very high IQs but maybe just favors Kelly slightly

"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 28, 2009 7:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If Kelly had a high IQ then

he wouldn’t be fucking around with SS.

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Oct 28, 2009 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i should qualify

PITCHING IQ like when only when he is on the mound. Generally speaking, you are probably right though ha

by Michael Cave on Oct 28, 2009 11:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

But I would think

that by the time Perez is that age he’ll have at least as good a feel for pitching as Kelly.

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by t ball on Oct 28, 2009 9:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm surprised he thinks he has the highest upside

by Brett Perryman on Oct 29, 2009 12:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

who would you say has the highest upside?

Fuck Mike Estabrook

by Horns130 on Oct 29, 2009 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it’s pretty much a toss-up among all three, but I’m more surprised that Callis says Perez on the upside because I know he’s a huge fan of Kelly.

by Brett Perryman on Oct 29, 2009 7:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Might as well make that trio a quartet... add Scheppers.

I doubt there’s a better quartet.

Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.

by rooster on Oct 28, 2009 4:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Scheppers

feels left out.

"Stats are like a woman in a fine little bikini. You can see a lot, but you can't see everything." -Dirk A. Tron

by coolaid on Oct 28, 2009 4:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Scheppers

I think he’s pretty clearly a notch below the other 3.

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 28, 2009 4:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If he stays healthy he sure is not.

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Oct 28, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

But you have to take that into account.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

Beware 2011: The Fortypocalypse is Nigh...

by thedirkatron on Oct 29, 2009 9:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Are we now getting to a point where Scheppers' health concerns are being overblown?

I wonder. Granted, the guy had a sizeable red flag in last year’s draft, but the experts say he’s fine now. Meanwhile, we all fret about the health and bring it up every time his name is mentioned as if he’s Rich Harden/Brandon McCarthy-esque, suffering injury after injury.

I think we may now be in a place where we’re worrying too much about what very well could turn out to be a one time injury.

"Feldman and Feliz and and pray for…infectious disease?"--TheJeezus on Sep 9, 2009 1:01 PM PDT

by WestTxAg06 on Oct 29, 2009 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe

but can you think of a better #4 prospect?

That's why they call them business sox

by egriffey on Oct 28, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is that based upon health concerns?

Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.

by rooster on Oct 28, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Interesting comment from Trip

Little known fact… Pitchers don’t need intact labrums to pitch. Most pitchers are already pitching with a torn labrum, and nearly all adult pitchers have a frayed labrum.

A torn labrum only becomes a problem when it leads to a loss of range of motion or [chronic] biceps tendinitis. A torn labrum doesn’t really heal itself because the tissue isn’t very vascular in nature; less blood flow = slow or non-existant healing.

Rehab and mechanical adjustments are always preferred to surgery because surgery wrecks the rotator cuff. Shockingly atrophied and scarred rotator cuffs are easily torn when pitchers do too much, too soon while building their arms back up.

Scheppers reportedly cleaned up his mechanics after his injury, and there have been zero reports of problems since then.

Searching for a way to predict injuries – TexasLeaguers.com
by NoNameOnCard on Oct 28, 2009 12:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Oct 28, 2009 4:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So, I guess the big mystery is at what point does a torn labrum reduce range of motion or cause bicep tendinitis.

But, there seems to be some connection between scarred/atrophied rotator cuffs and torn labrums that’s hinted at but not fully explained in his post.

Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.

by rooster on Oct 28, 2009 4:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i tore my labrum

in april, i dont feel 100%. 90-95, dont think i’ll ever get to 100.

by Agreen07 on Oct 28, 2009 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was referring to the surgery required to repair a labrum.

They go through the rotator cuff to get to it. This leads to scar tissue in the rotator cuff.

After surgery, complete immobilzation is recommended for up to 4 weeks.

Between the scarring and the immobilization, the rotator cuff can easily become a problem after labrum surgery. This isn’t always the case, of course.

Searching for a way to predict injuries - TexasLeaguers.com

by NoNameOnCard on Oct 28, 2009 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah. Thanks.

BTW, can’t wait until you have a chance to break down Scheppers pitching motion.

Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.

by rooster on Oct 29, 2009 6:47 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can't wait to see Neftali Perez

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 28, 2009 4:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Quote

WyoRanger, where is that quote from? Did you come up with it or from someone else?

by simbaa on Oct 28, 2009 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just dont think Perez is gonna make it

I’ve really soured on him after his poor AA debut

by tyd3311 on Oct 28, 2009 4:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Is this facetious or serious?

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 28, 2009 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If he's serious

Then his ass should be banned.

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Oct 28, 2009 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gotta be joking.

Gracchus (about Obama): I think he knows what America is. America is the mob. Conjure money for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of America is not the paper of the Constitution, it's the power of the media. He'll bring them debt - and they will love him for it.

by Aquaman56 on Oct 28, 2009 5:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

facetious

by tyd3311 on Oct 28, 2009 7:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

he had to ask

what a blow to your credibility

"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)

by ab03 on Oct 28, 2009 8:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs