Tuesday a.m. Rangers stuff

for Atlanta, not great, but not terrible. Vazquez is getting older and probably will regress, and I really like the looks of that Vizcaino prospect. I think Atlanta could have done better, but then again, if other teams weren’t offering better maybe they couldn’t have. Cabrera is cheap.

I didn’t realize that Vizcaino was such a highly touted prospect (4 stars according to BA). And it makes sense if Atlanta wants to free up money to pursue Holliday or Bay.

Still though, Cabrera is pretty crappy, even if cheap. That return is somewhat reasonable, but not as great as I imagined.

That could’ve been a factor as well. Good question to ask JD, though he probably can’t be that detailed in his answer. I recall rumors of Vazquez and the Rangers during the winter meetings, but, of course, no mention of how close any deal might be.

That was supposedly because he didn’t want to be super far away from Puerto Rico, and I’m not cartographer, but it seems like Texas is about the same distance (or maybe even closer) via plane to Puberty* Rico as New York or Chicago.

We’re in AL West, but we’re more in the center of the country, in other words.

*When I wrote “Puerto” here Firefox underlined it in red and suggested that maybe I meant “Puberty”. I giggled, then felt compelled to oblige.

as the Rangers not being in position to take on payroll is that the Mariners are in position to do so and have done so smartly. I hate Kenji Johjima for exacerbating that advantage.

The Beaver Lolwut Pear!

It was about Springsteen….

Ran a 27:15 5K last Sat . Joined Luckes Locker training program to run a half in March

enough about my running prowess(or lack there of)….

I’ve typed and deleted three different summaries…..The book had a little of everything. The most discussed aspect of the book is the idea of barefoot running. Through evolution we as a people were “born to run”, and loooong distances at that Nike takes a lot of heat for developing cushioned running shoes which weakened our feet and allowed us to learn incorrect striding. Running barefoot will naturally get one to land on their midfoot, as opposed to their heel(which causes the majority of running injuries. The book is a direct rebuttal to anyone who says that running is bad for you.

The characers of teh book were the best part. I finished the book and immediately googles all th epeople from the book to see wht they have been up to since the book came out. I wish there was a book on each of tehm individually. Of course a book about ultramarathoners is bound to have wonderful “characters”. Only “crazy” people run 100 mile races, right?

The book certainly exceeded my expectations and I believe will provide plenty of motivation to my running going forward. It helped me see that running is indeed “fun”.

He got Fifty Pence on the dollar on that one!

if cj is headed that way i want berkman

they really match up well as trade partners. Would McCarthy, CJ and Murphy be too much to give up? Not enough?

I still tend to think they had $3M-ish to work with. They made a list of their top DH target for that price, couldn’t get it, moved onto their top BP target at that price with the mindset that if they can’t improve the offense they better beef up the pitching.

The market for Garko/Delgado/Gomes will heat up after some other things get settled. Folks are still thinking about Glaus and, apparently, high-end pitching.

I sort of see him being a utility OF who happens to play just about every day, but it really comes down to whether he can play a passable CF and spell Borbon against lefties. Fangraphs showed him as being a slightly below average CF in ‘07 and then a great RF every year since. I wonder, though, if he would now at least be league average in CF with more experience (and perhaps not playing in Houston’s crazy CF might help).

On other days he can spell Hamilton or Cruz, allowing them to DH on occasion.

Pence isn’t coming to Texas

Houston likes him too much.

Heh.

If his ass gets traded here. Pre-Arb players don’t really have much say in the matter.

I actually know the guy — went to HS with him. He’s ambivalent about the Rangers, but he doesn’t hate them.

but I read yesterday how he might not be the perfect fit because he’s right handed. They mentioned Podsenick might be a better fit cause he’s left handed can hit lead off and probably not cost as much.

he was better in 08 and much better in a partial 07
but he can’t keep up a decent obp as a full time player.

he’d be a good lefty masher to bring in but that role probably isn’t worth what it would take to get him.

I’d like to see the Angels sign up for 3 years of the Rodney.

Of course, it would help us even more if we had hitters that were patient enough to let Rodney hand ’em a free pass to first.

As much as we want him to be a starter if Frankie has problems Wash will slide Happy right into that roll.

And make no mistake about it, if Feliz is given the closers job, he ain’t giving it up.

He’s butt ass filthy.

Not sure I want Warsh running him out there in the bottom of the ninth 4 days out of 5, which would likely happen at some point if he was given the closer’s role.