The Rangers hitters are ice-cold
Anthony Andro runs down the recent performance of the Ranger hitters. Conclusion...Marlon Byrd and Chris Davis are the team's hottest hitters.
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bigsteve, is that you?
.364 in his last 4 games
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
More importantly, he's reaching base at a .500 clip those last 4 games.
3 walks his last 4 games as opposed to 3 walks in 30 games previous to that.
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
And even more importantly
his at bats look better even when he doesn’t get a hit or walk.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
A: "You stole my horse"
B: “You have a crappy horse.”
While, at first glance, B seems to refute A, the statements aren’t really related.
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
by benmor78 on Jun 16, 2009 12:35 AM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
Did you work in a law office?
¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
"Anyone who hangs themself during autoerotic asphyxiation is free game." - Curmudgeon
Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a gasper.
by inactive lsb user on Jun 16, 2009 1:29 AM CDT up reply actions
And of course
just as he looks to be having some good ABs and possible coming out of his slump, Wash sits him on Sunday. All hail The Gut!
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
Ouch, CD as one of our hottest hitters? Ouch...
Btw, anybody else see the front page of texasrangers.com… Milly looks almost angelic. Pretty great pic considering the pic is promoting him building a ballpark for kids.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
OK this is the first thread I've read all day: has LSB come to an agreement as to how to solve this problem?
We’re gonna be without Hamilton until, what, August?
Are we gonna have to deal for a bat? I’ve read some of Adam’s front-page columns and they seem to suggest that shifting the line-up around wouldn’t do too much good…
Then again, I remember Adam being so embarrasingly wrong about Bottsy.
I want Nick Johnson or Josh Willingham
My take is if we don’t get a patient high OBP slugger by the trade deadline, this offense is going to fall apart.
Hell, it pretty much already has.
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
I think that people are for one of the following
-Trade for a poor defense, good bat that can be had for relatively cheap like Johnson, Willingham, or Hawpe
-Move the lineup around to shake things up
-Live with the slump that the players are in and wait for them to get out of it on their own
-Trade for more pitching
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
Hawpe
He wouldn’t be relatively cheap.
by Darrell McKown on Jun 16, 2009 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Interesting sample sizes.
Here are our stats from the last 15 days:
Player H/AB R HR RBI K AVG OPSMurphy 12/41 4 0 2 9 .293 .731
Davis 10/37 2 0 4 15 .270 .730
Young 14/54 5 1 2 10 .259 .650
Hank Blalock 8/32 6 1 3 7 .250 .689
Byrd 11/44 4 0 5 11 .250 .612
Saltalamacchi 08/34 0 0 3 12 .235 .522
Cruz 09/46 10 3 7 14 .196 .745
Kinsler 10/54 4 2 5 10 .185 .556
Teagarden 02/11 1 0 2 4 .182 .545
Jones 05/28 3 2 3 8 .179 .629
Andrus 04/30 3 0 1 7 .133 .411
And of course if you sort by last 7 days, everyone gets worse.
All this talk of "shaking things up" is silly.
We have a lineup full of guys pressing, trying too hard. Making a bunch of changes in the lineup is not going to solve that.
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thats why you make new lineups
it really doesn’t change anything, it just gets people out of their current grooves.
At this stage you’d rather have someone happy or pissed off about their new lineup spot than thinking about their shitty at bats lately.
"He (Padilla) shouldve gone back to Venezuela and watched on his Direct TV waiting to find out who his new team would be!!. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
Interesting thought.
Get them pissed at Wash instead of at themselves.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Nice new title
Matt Kata can rest now. Hopefully, this one will apply all year.
"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."
I don't like being an angry fan
I’ll gladly take a first place finsh, though
"I hope a bartender appears, with a shot and a beer everytime ya holler, cause yeah man, that's lucky"-Pat Green
"I want to be wearing the red, blue and white."-Matt Purke
From Matthew at LL:
Since May 1st, the Texas Rangers offense has been worth -6.4 runs compared to average, before park adjustments.
Since June 1st, the Texas Rangers offense has been worth -20.9 runs compared to average, before park adjustments. The only Ranger hitter in the black during June is David Murphy. And they have not even had to play in a NL park yet.
The Texas Rangers now have a seasonal, park-adjusted, wOBA of 0.339 against a league average of 0.341. The Texas Rangers have shown a below average offense in 2009.
"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." ---Red, The Shawshank Redeption
But the Rangers will always have plenty of offense!
/steal home (and the national media)
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
New Tagline for LSB?
Texas Rangers…Cooler than being cool
"I hope a bartender appears, with a shot and a beer everytime ya holler, cause yeah man, that's lucky"-Pat Green
"I want to be wearing the red, blue and white."-Matt Purke
or
An Inconvenient Truth: The Rangers Offense
I apologize…i’m a little bored late at night, pretty excited about the possiblilty of going to tuesday and wednesdays games though!
"I hope a bartender appears, with a shot and a beer everytime ya holler, cause yeah man, that's lucky"-Pat Green
"I want to be wearing the red, blue and white."-Matt Purke
But we are "wiliing to sacrifice"...
You started it…..
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
Yep
there really aren’t many Ranger hitters who force you to throw them a strike. Just keep throwing em outside, and watch the Rangers try to turn on them. I’d be curious of those in the OSwing, how many are outside, because that looks like the pitch the Rangers aren’t laying off, and aren’t doing much with since they don’t seem interested in going the other way.
"He (Padilla) shouldve gone back to Venezuela and watched on his Direct TV waiting to find out who his new team would be!!. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
yep yep
Start the slider in the middle of the plate and the Ranger hitters will end up swinging at the low and outside pitch.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
Byrd and Young have seemed to be the worst about this to me...
….Like Young is so far away from some of those low and away pitches, they seem to be several inches off the end of his bat.
by FuturePants on Jun 16, 2009 10:18 AM CDT up reply actions
MY tries almost too hard to go the other way sometimes
Kinda like Kinsler tries too hard to pull.
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
I think at times MY, Byrd
and others have made up thier mind that they are going to swing at the first FB they see. Doesn’t matter where it is located. So that slider looks like a FB and they take thier Mighty Casey cut at it. 0-1, end of AB per EG.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
MY isn't really terrible in terms of swinging at pitches outside the zone
I think he just has the mindset that putting the ball in play is more important than getting on base
My solution to the offensive drought?
Get the entire lineup drunk before game time. Not sure why, but I just think it might help.
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