Five Questions: Texas Rangers

The Hardball Times has this year's Five Questions for the Texas Rangers published (written by Scott Lucas).

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Scott did a great job

as always.

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by t ball on Mar 17, 2009 2:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

Lucas is great.

by Brett Perryman on Mar 17, 2009 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

he was money on the podcast

there needs to be a massive roundtable with adam, scott, jamey, z, mjh, and evan grant.

with ted the moderator – pretty difficult job that he does really well.

"Josh Hamilton doesn't act like he is Josh Hamilton. He acts like a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy named Josh Hamilton. " - jparks

by ab03 on Mar 17, 2009 8:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Throw an outside perspective in there as well

Like a Will Carroll, maybe.

"My mother always taught me that if the only thing you have to say is,
‘(Expletive) Dave Samson,’ then don’t say anything at all.
So I’m not going to say anything at all.
Is my mother the greatest or what?"
- Mariners GM Bill Bavasi, after signing Ichiro to a $90 million contract

by tyd3311 on Mar 17, 2009 8:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I proposed that last season

at some point, a big round table would be great. Pick a couple of narrow topics and let them spew forth collective wisdom. You left Jason and/or Joey from BBTIA from your list, though.

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by t ball on Mar 17, 2009 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Very nice Scott.

He forgot to mention under the “Does the rotation have a prayer?” section that Sheets suffered an injury just by agreeing to a contract with the Rangers.

Even so, I’ll the the over on whether the rotation will be terrible.

JD: Adamant about 78 wins in 2009. Go Rangers!

by rooster on Mar 17, 2009 5:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That was a good read

I forgot about HBT doing these. Can’t wait to read up on some other teams.

I'm Matt mutha-effing Bush, bitches, and mutha-eff East County.

"I'm as passionate and knowlegeable as any fan out there." Josey Wales

by Brian Thomas on Mar 18, 2009 9:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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The last pitcher originally signed by the Rangers to qualify for the ERA title while still with Texas was Doug Davis in 2001. Their division mates have a combined 41 seasons of at least 162 innings from homegrown pitchers since then. Meanwhile, Chris Young, John Danks, Edinson Volquez and (improbably) Andres Galarraga form a solid quartet of ex-Rangers. At least Volquez brought equal or better value in return.

Harrison is most likely to break the dry spell.

Probably not his intention, but this gives the impression that Harrison is a “homegrown” talent. Although he did mention earlier that Harrison was part of the Teixeira deal.

"A good start would be not giving up 900 runs again." -Jon Daniels

by Randy Richardson on Mar 18, 2009 10:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs