Rangers Draft: Kevin Goldstein Q&A at Inside Corner

by Adam J. Morris on Jun 13, 2009 10:53 AM CDT Comment 16 comments

I wasn't around yesterday (all my posts during the day except the morning links one were pre-loaded), so I missed this Q&A with Kevin Goldstein over at Inside Corner.

Some really good stuff from him on the Ranger draft class, with Goldstein being very confident the Rangers will sign Purke, and offering a lot of thoughts on a variety of guys the Rangers snagged.

Check it out.

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I tried to fanshot this, I couldn't post it.

Dunno what happened, I tried three different browsers. Maybe ajayem took my Kodachrome away?

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by Rodney on Jun 13, 2009 11:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

He did take it..

He wanted those niiiiiice bright colors and greeens of summer.

by cmkelly29 on Jun 13, 2009 11:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kodachrome was damn fine film.

Especially the 64 speed. It was weird though and required its own special development process so they eventually ditched it, I guess. Last time I used Kodachrome there was only one place in the US and one place in Europe that could develop it, and the place in the US happened to be in Dallas.

I’d go for velvia or portra VC if I were still shooting film nowadays.

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by Black Francis on Jun 13, 2009 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Truer words....

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they’d never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks worse in black and white

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by scoop16 on Jun 13, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Excellent chat with Scheppers from before the draft

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2009/06/2009_draft_day.php

Looks like he holds the coaches at FS accountable for his shoulder problem.

JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook

by laxtonto on Jun 13, 2009 11:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Did the Rangers really draft a guy named Jabari Blash?

Jurickson Profar, step aside.

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by trza on Jun 13, 2009 11:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

They drafted two guys named Jabari.

Lots of Murphys, Jabaris, Pimentels, and Guillermos. I wonder if Levine has done a study on names…

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by NoNameOnCard on Jun 13, 2009 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Two Jabaris? That had to be the entirety of the kids named Jabari eligible to be drafted

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by WestTxAg06 on Jun 13, 2009 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jurickson Profar

takes a back seat to no name.

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by Brett Perryman on Jun 13, 2009 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Am I the only one

that thinks “pre-loaded” posts are a form of cheating?

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by Walter Sobchak on Jun 13, 2009 2:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Great Q&A, good stuff in there

Goldstein loves him some Rangers farm system, and rightly so.

On a tangent, Goldstein has gotten to where he’s my clear-cut favorite BP writer. Unlike quite a few other writers over there he doesn’t give off the “I’m smarter than you and want you to know it” vibe. In fact, he’s pretty self-deprecating, giving all the credit for his info to the scouts and his other sources.

"wORLD sEIRES HERE WE COMER!!!!!!!!!"by bigsteve on May 29, 2009 10:21 PM PDT
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by WestTxAg06 on Jun 13, 2009 2:33 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Reggie Williams

Wow – I hope they go after him

by Mike Simonek on Jun 13, 2009 3:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Williams

I really wouldnt hold out hope that he signs. Not unless they offer him first day kind of money

But yeah I’d LOVE for them to sign him.

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by rentz on Jun 13, 2009 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll ask the same question I did in the fanshot:

Something that I’d be interested in hearing is someone who knows a lot more about shoulder anatomy than me reconcile what I heard Daniels (and Hopkins) say the night of the draft with all of these comments and reports (like from Goldstein here) that state very matter-of-factly that his injury was a stress fracture last year. Daniels said plainly, and Hopkins echoed, that it was never a stress fracture injury. Evan Grant asked him very directly and referenced the problems that Brandon McCarthy has had with that injury, and JD said that it wasn’t a stress fracture but a muscular injury, that they did all of their homework last year before the draft and knew his situation then, and that they did their full on medical review when he visited before this draft.

I suspect that there is might be an explanation as to how there is truth in both of these statements, but on the surface they seem completely contradictory.

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by Brett Perryman on Jun 13, 2009 6:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I thought the same thing

Scheppers talks during his chat interview about the extensive work that he did on his shoulder muscles to strengthen his rotator cuff and alluded that his injury was caused by overwork. It seems like his “stress fracture” was an initial misdiagnoses and it was instead a muscle issue.

Once again, it looks like the guys never had a stress fracture and the media continues to misdiagnose off of a bad medical report. Good for Texas if true….

JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook

by laxtonto on Jun 13, 2009 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs