Brandon Boggs is in NYC, Guillermo Moscoso is not
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 2, 2009 2:56 PM CDT
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Jeff Wilson reports that Brandon Boggs is in New York City and at the stadium...if the Rangers decide Josh Hamilton needs to go to the disabled list, Boggs will be able to be activated for tonight's game.
Hamilton's appointment with the hernia doctor was at 2 p.m., so he's not going to start tonight regardless.
Wilson also indicates that Guillermo Moscoso has returned to Oklahoma City, as he's being optioned to make room for Vicente Padilla on the 25 man roster. Padilla is being activated from the disabled list to make the start tonight.
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Interesting
Might not be the worst thing in the world to have Boggs up during this stretch. He could teach Byrd how to take a pitch and maybe even a walk.
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by bioaggie on Jun 2, 2009 3:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Byrd
He did have 46 walks last year (one for every 10 AB’s) and a .380 OBP, so it’s not like he doesn’t possess the ability to take a pitch.
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by RCCook on Jun 2, 2009 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
This year
he is pretty hacktastic. I have no idea what happened to a lot of players on this team this year whose walk rate has tanked.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 3:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Unfortunately,
we don’t have the soft part of the schedule coming up. I suspect this next week is gonna hurt a little.
2-4 will be a nice week.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The next two weeks...
will show us the way. How good are we? On the road? Against great pitching?
But what a ride the last month has been!
by 3Bagger on Jun 2, 2009 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not expecting
much from our offense. Hopefully they can explode enough for a game or 2.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
hopefully it won't be at
the same time our pitching implodes.
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Board Game is gone
Life is pain - we've got to scrape the joy from it every chance we get.
by jshcmp on Jun 2, 2009 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
How does that explain these walk rates--
Player 2008 2009
Blalock 6.8% 3.5%
Byrd 10% 3.6%
Cruz 12.8% 9.5%
Hamilton 9.1% 6.5%
Salty 13.5% 7.4%
Young 7.8% 6.7%
Only Kinsler’s Teagarden’s and Murphy’s walk rate is up.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 3:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
hearts
MB tumps Rudy who trumps Wash. Since MB is gone they are back to listening to Rudy.
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 3:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh please
Bradley being here somehow magically made every other player take more walks. I don’t buy it.
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by t ball on Jun 2, 2009 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
What is your explanation?
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Last year
was unusually good, some of these guys just suck at taking pitches or are naturally very aggressive, some of them are pressing, and Bradley plays a part as well.
Most stuff in baseball (and life) is a combination of factors, not one big thing we can easily point to. We spend far too much energy looking for one simplistic smoking gun.
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by t ball on Jun 2, 2009 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
he sure made everybody around him
better…but no, I don’t buy that he had a major impact on their walk rate.
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by Walter Sobchak on Jun 2, 2009 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe all those bad calls the umps were giving him on purpose..
became good calls for the other guys….
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by bking on Jun 2, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
And that was actually a bit of an abnormality for his career
The only other time he’s had a walk rate over 7.7% was 2006 when he played just 78 games for the Nats.
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by lonestarJon on Jun 2, 2009 5:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Byrd's whole Ranger career is an abnormality
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
by Gdawg on Jun 2, 2009 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did he bring
the foam finger with him?
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dang. I was hoping G-mo was here to stay.
Can’t complain about Boggs being up, though.
by tyd3311 on Jun 2, 2009 3:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Bah,
I hear he is too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll take the chin divider over a slick fastball any day!
She say she are the manager.
by rockin_rangers on Jun 2, 2009 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
is it a super hero chin?
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 2, 2009 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
More like a chin squater
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by boomer1 on Jun 2, 2009 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rupe experiment over?
Will the OKC rotation now be Feliz, Hunter, Mathis, Poveda, Moscoso?
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 3:26 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
If that happens
then maybe if make sit easier for him to latch on with someone else.
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 3:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
If that happens, I'm buying a year's worth of food and a concrete bunker
Because clearly, the nuclear holocaust is near.
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by WestTxAg06 on Jun 2, 2009 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jesus christ,whoever the pervert is trying
to bang Mrs. Benson,just give up and DFA her husband.
Cut your losses and spares.
by Too Legit To quit on Jun 2, 2009 3:36 PM CDT reply actions 9 recs
that was literally one of the funnies things i've ever read on this site....
….and that’s saying something with some of the comments that have been on here before
my sig is better than yours
by hinduplaya on Jun 2, 2009 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well done.
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by slc ranger on Jun 2, 2009 5:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Little known fact about Brandon Boggs:
Second cousin of Wade.
by cmkelly29 on Jun 2, 2009 3:43 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
well wade
does love fried chicken
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by studcrackers on Jun 2, 2009 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought about going there, but decided to pass
by tyd3311 on Jun 2, 2009 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
yea
thought about doing one of those /sterotype things at the end of it
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by studcrackers on Jun 2, 2009 3:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Little known fact about myself:
When I see the name Guillermo Moscoso, I can hear Adam saying it in my head.
by cmkelly29 on Jun 2, 2009 3:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Weird.
I do, too. That only happens for Moscoso, too.
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by lisa w on Jun 2, 2009 3:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's the way he says Mos-co-so...
Very strange.
by cmkelly29 on Jun 2, 2009 3:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to miss Spanish Will
do we think he’ll be up again as a starter or a reliever?
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 2, 2009 4:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
UPDATE
InsideCornerJosh Hamilton to DL with abdominal strain. May or may not be full-blown sports hernia. Could be out two weeks or two months.
Go Rangers...don't suck...
by Kinslerhomer on Jun 2, 2009 4:14 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
sigh
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
bangs forehead against wall....
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by boomer1 on Jun 2, 2009 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dang, well
its not like we were getting a load of offensive production from him anyway yet. Hope he gets healthy and returns swinging like the 1st 1/2 of last year. I don’t think we will lose too much defensively, but still, this sucks a fat one
by brandallini on Jun 2, 2009 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
getting annoying.
the preceding post was a great success.
by DSheppard on Jun 2, 2009 4:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lets hope AJ
will start hitting like he did in April and not continue his May suckitude.
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by RangerMad on Jun 2, 2009 4:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I imagine
it will be somewhere between those too. I doubt he can sustain the 1.3 OPS of April.
Luckily his walk rate is so high that even with a .245 average in May, he still delivers a .339 OBP, so he wasn’t a complete out machine like some have been.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
If Moscoso is sent down
and Ham is on the 25 man, and Boggs is called up, aren’t we a man short on the 25 man?
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
by DJCahill on Jun 2, 2009 4:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Padilla is going to be activated
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by boomer1 on Jun 2, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
More
pt for Jones, at least he draws walks
by icouldusesomebaseball on Jun 2, 2009 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Borbon's got a .366 OBP and .315 BA
over his past 450 at bats. Any chance they call him up for CF duties, or is it Boggs for good and he platoons LF with Murph, giving Byrd full time CF? That’s still only 4 outfielders if Jones is full time DH and Hank takes over at 1B (IF Davis is sent down at some point – which, in combination with losing Josh’s bat for a month or two, seems to be more of a necessity now)…any chance Golson or Borbon are called up soon as well? Or will they bring up Max or Smoak (not on the 40 man yet) to platoon at 1B/DH?
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by Walter Sobchak on Jun 2, 2009 5:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I think if Josh...
has a full blown sports hernia and will be out at leat two months then it could be Borbon’s time in CF. A lot will depened on how much time Hamilton misses in my eyes. The Rangers still have to find playing time for Cruz, Byrd, Jones, and Murphy (who has played much better lately) so Boggs may not get a lot of playing time. Although I think him and Murphy could be a very nice platoon. Boggs and Borbon need to be ahead of Golson imo.
The other wild card here, as you mention, is the situation with Davis. If he ends up going down after say another month of struggling, then that puts Blalock at 1B and Jones at DH which would open up a lot more playing time for another OFer like Boggs or Borbon. A lot of things could happen in the next couple weeks.
I think MaxRam and Smoak need to both get healthy and rake for a month or so at OKC before they become and option. Just my opinion. I’m sure some would like to see Smoak skip OKC altogether.
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by slc ranger on Jun 2, 2009 5:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't see Davis being demoted
Despite how ridiculous the strikeout thing has gotten. Smoak is hurt and Max Ramirez has actually been worse than Chris Davis.
I think Boggs is the correct choice to replace JH right now. I’d expect about a .340- .360 range OBP with SLG somewhere around .400 which makes him pretty similar to Murphy actually.
If JH is out for 2 months, I think Byrd will be fine holding down the fort in CF. But if not, and if Boggs gets off to a slow start, we’ll probably see Borbon.
I don’t think Golson has done anything to merit consideration for another callup.
ut that would still make himHe’ll probably I’d already consider him one of the better OBP guys on the roster and we one of the better OBP guys on the roster
by brianphayes on Jun 2, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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