Ranger medical staff to examine Mike Lowell this weekend
by Adam J. Morris on Dec 18, 2009 4:00 PM CST
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PrintT.R. Sullivan reports that the Ranger medical staff will be examining Mike Lowell this weekend, with the focus on Lowell's right thumb, which may require surgery.
Of particular interest is that Sullivan says that the Rangers apparently plan on having David Murphy be their primary DH, with Lowell thus being sort of a platoon partner for Murphy and a backup first baseman and third baseman.
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A murphy Lowell platoon is fine with me,
just not for 3 mil. He needs to be 100% healthy. Any player should be healthy if they are getting paid that much!
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Ummm, exactly what have they been doing this whole time?
the Ranger medical staff will be examining Mike Lowell this weekend
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
it is curious
that we’ve heard so many times that the trade still might happen even if he needs surgery. if that’s the case, what is the point of all this?
Either we believe he’s healthy enough to help us next season and represent a strong value at $3M or we don’t.
The whole Lowell/Murphy platoon idea is fine, but I think we need one more legit bat added to our 25 man roster, preferably someone who can play in the OF or 1B.
I wish Xavier Nady knew how to take a walk…
What is this, Horseville? Because I'm surrounded by naysayers.
I know he's not a popular choice
but I still really hope Jermaine Dye somehow ends up here.
What is this, Horseville? Because I'm surrounded by naysayers.
he wouldn't be so appealing
if he didn’t crush lefties to the extent that he does. Adding Lowell and Dye to our lineup against lefties would be huge.
What is this, Horseville? Because I'm surrounded by naysayers.
i think
the whole idea of bringing in lowell is that he allows young to be our backup MI.
as for the CF to platoon with Borbon, a compelling case can be made for Baldelli or Reed Johnson or Brandon Boggs, with Boggs probably making the most sense if healthy…
What is this, Horseville? Because I'm surrounded by naysayers.
this is pretty crazy
that it’s drug on this long, makes me think there’s no way it goes down. But saying that, I bet it will now.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
reverse psychology?
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by lost in space on Dec 18, 2009 4:15 PM CST up reply actions
he's got "Peter Gammons face"
my old roommate has the same expression
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Dec 18, 2009 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
Are there not exercises you can do with your face?
by oc on Dec 18, 2009 5:07 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah probably.
But once you have “Gammons face” you’re going to need some luck and a lot of witchcraft to undo it.
we make him laugh, and it seems to go away momentarily
basically whenever he’s not smiling or laughing, it’s there…
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Dec 18, 2009 5:36 PM CST up reply actions
Starting C Salty/Teagarden
Backup C Josh Bard?
1B Davis
2B Kinsler
SS Andrus
3B Young
DH vs LHP Lowell
LF Hamilton
CF vs RHP Borbon
RF Cruz
DH vs RHP Murphy
Utility Inglett/German
CF vs LHP Reed Johnson/Rocco Baldelli/Brandon Boggs?
LH crusher Dye?
Pretty salty.
What is this, Horseville? Because I'm surrounded by naysayers.
Roster
That roster would require going with an 11-man pitching staff.
by Darrell McKown on Dec 18, 2009 5:26 PM CST up reply actions
You forget Feliz counts as 4.33 men.
Give me team chemistry and emotion over stats any day. Do you think 34,000 Ranger fans were screaming their asses off over Pudge and his .275 OBP?
Why would you have both Dye and Lowell?
by Adam J. Morris on Dec 18, 2009 6:08 PM CST up reply actions
Gotta have somebody to play RF when Wash decides Cruz needs a week off.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
Yeah because Cruz got soooooo many days off last year
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.
Borbon should not be a platoon player
he is an everyday player. if you want to platoon someone, maybe we should get a 2B that can hit against righties. Borbon plays every day.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
I agree
let the kid play everyday, He wont be great against LHP, but he’s good enough all around there is no reason to let him play through it everyday + signing a guy to just come in and take up another roster spot to play CF against LHP is pretty defeating. Let borbon play everyday, like 140+ games, then play Hambone or German or some other multi talented Util player there the other handful of games.
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
A Murphy/Lowell platoon at DH most days
isn’t the prettiest, but I do feel pretty confident in getting some good production from them. The only problem is that the DH spot is the only real spot in the lineup to put a bat that can help carry the offense. Murphy/Lowell will give you something around an .850 OPS, but if Davis and Hamilton don’t bounce back, then that’s not going to help the offense much.
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
RW
the Rangers apparently plan on having David Murphy be their primary DH, with Lowell thus being sort of a platoon partner for Murphy and a backup first baseman and third baseman.
I am sure that the plan will be changed per The Gut.
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This place will erupt
the first time Cruz sits so Murph can play RF and GritFace McVeteran DH’s.
Look at the comments under Jeff Wilson's blog post on dallasnews.com. What a bunch of rocket scientists.- Keith Law
by Keynes on Dec 18, 2009 4:54 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Which will be sometime in the first month of the season, after Lowell has his first big game and Wash pronounces him "too hot to take out of the lineup".
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
I think it is ridiculous to play borbon inb center field as weak as his arm is and make Murphy DH when he is a very good outfielder. Maybe he will get a chancre yo hgo somewhere we he can play in the field everyday. He is better defensively than Cruz and Borbon.
how do you figure
i am all for trading murphy though, he has a ton of value with his low salary and i think who we got back plus boggs getting the other playing time would benifit our club overall
I don't think so
Murphy appears to be someone who would really be stretched in CF.
If Borbon can’t play CF, we need to deal him now.
by Adam J. Morris on Dec 18, 2009 5:24 PM CST up reply actions
Except
Murphy isn’t a real good centerfielder when he has been put out there.
"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
Best outfielder in baseball, Franklyn Gutierrez (Seattle)
2nd best outfielder in baseball, Nelson Cruz (Texas)
Probably should read American League.
David Murphy is nowhere on such lists.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Dec 18, 2009 7:17 PM CST up reply actions
Murphy is not that great
defensively. Murphy may have a better arm than Borbon, but can’t cover half as much ground. There have been plenty of CFers that haven’t had huge arms. It’s about the ground you can cover.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Exactly.
See Lofton, Kenny. This is actually who Borbon reminds me a lot of. Kenny Lofton was no slouch in his prime.
I think Borbon is going to shut all the naysayers up. I like how the outfield sets up this year, people need to quit whining about it. I think it’s going to be a strength. Hamilton (LF), Borbon (CF), Cruz (RF) with Murphy as the 4th OF and maybe a guy like Boggs on the bench as a 5th OF? I’m down.
Jimmy Johnson for GM.
Murphs solid, and I really like his arm, Borbon should certaintly have more value as an OF
on defense because of his gazelleness.
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
Murphy and Lowell
Just for some perspective:
Murphy vs. RHP: .279/.357/.476
Lowell vs. LHP: .301/.363/.503
That would be a decent platoon but I think the Rangers still need another right handed hitter.
"When you play happy, good things will happen"-Elvis Andrus
I'm happy with that
it lacks in the the shear fear-factor that a Vlad or Thome would add to the lineup, and the OBPs aren’t what I’d want. But whatever; rather than pouting all off-season, I’ll just say that I’m hoping that Lowell is healthy and that I’m ready for 2010 to start.
Go Rice Owls!
I certaintly love what improvements murph made to his game last year
maybe he can continue to bring his On base skills up a little more as he fits into this role playing only against RHP.
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
Some times you just miss stuff,
And I’ve missed anything/everything on Hank. Is he officially done with the Rangers? Is he officially done with Major League Baseball?
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
Lol its getting ridiculous, first it was middle of the week,
then it was by the weekend, now its during the weekend.
oh well, enough of that.
anyway, avatar was pretty freakin sweet. I expected a mediocre movie and great effects, i got a good movie and incredible effects.
the slow parts of the movie didn’t bother me at all because you could just get transfixed on looking at the details of the environment they created and the 3d effects. seriously, theres some amaaaazing visuals.
the preceding post was a great success.
Is it over 2 hours?
For an over $500 million budget I assume it is right?
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by lost in space on Dec 18, 2009 6:49 PM CST up reply actions
2 hours 40 minutes i think.
By the way the budget on the movie had a lot to do with developing new technology that can be used further and sold to others.
Anyway I have a tendency to get caught up in visuals, it seems like some people im reading on message boards are barely phased by them.. oh well, too bad for them.
the preceding post was a great success.
Well that's good to hear.
I’m sure I’ll be checking it out this weekend. Thanks for the heads up.
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by lost in space on Dec 18, 2009 7:05 PM CST up reply actions
How long does it take...
to look at some guys fucking thumb?
There has to be more to this. Either Theo or JD are buying time for something else.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I think myself
Lowell is worse off than has been let on, and that’s why this is dragging out – either the Red Sox have been downplaying it and are stalling, hoping more time might allow Lowell to pass a physical, or both orgs are waiting to see if his thumb gets better because the Rangers are really obsessed with getting him if at all possible.
My guess is it’s the latter scenario, otherwise we would’ve done the smart thing by now and moved on to Garko or Vlad or something.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
M's got Bradley, and we got a broken thumb and bad hip (hopefully!)
anyone else see the problem here?
well bradley has all that plus serious mental issues so...
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
Could certainly be mentioned
But I’d think most national writers would detect a Josh Hamilton rebound and improved pitching effectiveness over vet leadership. Once a name is glitzy, it pretty much stays glitzy unless the guy actually tanks.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Dec 19, 2009 1:26 PM CST up reply actions
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