Evan Grant's things to watch today
by Adam J. Morris on Mar 6, 2009 10:07 AM CST
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PrintEvan Grant runs down his "things to watch" for today, with Brandon McCarthy and Andruw Jones leading the list.
According to Grant, McCarthy's shoulder stiffness is something that McCarthy believes is normal for spring training and something that just gets worked through, but the organization wanted to err on the side of caution given his injury history. Regardless, he's going to pitch in the B game today, and if there's a setback, health-wise, for him, we might have to expect to see Kris Benson or Jason Jennings in the rotation to start the season.
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Erring on the side of caution with McCarthy
Not a bad thing at all.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
Sounds like a chirp of mental toughness from McCarthy.
JD: Adamant about 78 wins in 2009. Go Rangers!
Looking forward to updates from the B game on McCarthy.
JD: Adamant about 78 wins in 2009. Go Rangers!
where can we expect these from?
has a site mentioned that they would be sending updates this morning? Because of McCarthy, I am just about as intrigued by the morning game as I am by the afternoon one (with Hunter and Feliz).
I wish
They would have Feliz pitch tomorrow…..so we can actually watch him.
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by Pocket Ninja on Mar 6, 2009 10:46 AM CST up reply actions
What channel/time?
I'm Matt mutha-effing Bush, bitches, and mutha-eff East County.
...at the time, I wasn’t being truthful with myself. How could I be truthful with Katie Couric or CBS?
by Brian Thomas on Mar 6, 2009 11:40 AM CST up reply actions
FSN at 2:05.
"It doesn't look like he's trying. It kinda pisses me off," "He could throw 110 if he tried. The way it explodes out of his hand is really something special." ~ B-Mac on Feliz.
by Kinslerhomer on Mar 6, 2009 12:04 PM CST up reply actions
Thanks
I'm Matt mutha-effing Bush, bitches, and mutha-eff East County.
...at the time, I wasn’t being truthful with myself. How could I be truthful with Katie Couric or CBS?
Probably Evan will post some updates.
Maybe Parks will send something back to the BBTIA folks.
JD: Adamant about 78 wins in 2009. Go Rangers!
Vizuel and the utility job
kind of interesting that Grant doesn’t think Vizquel’s a lock there. I guess we all just kind of assumed that Vizquel could handle any infield position.
But even if that is the case, does this automatically mean that Vizquel doesn’t start the season as the starting SS?
"To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
I can't understand...
why the Rangers wouldn’t start him at SS for a month while Andrus is in AAA (although I would probably keep him at OKC for 2-3 months).
The service time issue alone makes that a slam dunk move imo.
However I’m getting the impression that Andrus is going to be the starting SS from the get go, which I’m not a fan of.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
struggles
One reason to keep him as the opening day SS is that it would be difficult to justify bringing him up if he is struggling in AAA. Let him struggle at the ML level.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
And lose a year...
of service time?
Why not let him struggle in OKC instead? And if he struggles that bad, why bring him up at all. Would it really be horrible if he spent the entire year at OKC?
The real important thing in MY is not playing SS now.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
If he is struggling at the AAA level
why not just leave him at AAA. At his age, its not that terrible of an idea.
Get off my lawn.
i wasn't so clear
what i actually meant was that arias might supplant vizquel as the starter.
"To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
Ahh...
I’m ok with that as long as Arias can actually make the throws. Problem is I have about as much faith in Arias’ shoulder right now as I do in a Rangers starter winning the Cy Young this year.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
my thinking might be convoluted
but i guess the way it might go down is they decide arias and duran (between themselves) can handle all SS/backup infield duties and that vizquel doesn’t really add enough if all he can do is play a good defensive SS.
But, I don’t know if that makes much sense – was vizquel being a good backup necessary for him to get the starting SS (UI later in the year) job?couldn’t they just try to trade vizquel later in the year when andrus is ready?
"To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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