Rangers pick Tanner Scheppers with their supplemental pick
by Brett Perryman on Jun 9, 2009 8:24 PM CDT
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The word was that we were on him. Scouts galore at his latest starts.
I just had no idea we could get him at 44.
Kudos to Johnny Donuts.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
Indeed
The Rangers were indeed in attendance. Along with a dozen other teams. The AL West was well represented.
"It takes a big dog to weigh 1000 pounds"
But...
Pittsburgh passed on him last year.
And 43 teams passed on him this year.
And McCarthy has talent and a shoulder injury.
McCarthy
lacks a 96 mph, running fastball.
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
That's not much of a reason
14 teams passed on Jered Weaver, who was the top player in his draft. 24 teams (or whatever it was) passed on Rick Porcello and Joba Chamberlain. Sometimes these types pan out and sometimes they don’t. But when they do you get a star.
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 9, 2009 11:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Talent
I don’t disagree with that. Talent is certainly fun to consider, but injuries bug me.
Players with injuries make me cringe too much. For me, watching McCarthy pitch is like watching a toddler jumping rope holding steak knives. Something bad is about to happen sorta feeling. So, that’s were I stand.
Here is another way I look at it
Carroll said on Twitter that teams were scared to death that the Angels were going to snag Scheppers with one of their late first round picks. How do AL and ALW teams feel about Texas getting him in the second round? I’ll tell you how, their division rivals have a sick feeling in their gut.
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 9, 2009 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions
You pay him?
Everyone else is getting it for free.
by NoNameOnCard on Jun 10, 2009 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions
That's what she said.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on Jun 10, 2009 5:59 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
43 teams passed on him?
I have a hard time believing the Fort Worth Cats passed on him without some sort of under the table agreement
Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
There are only 30 teams!
Ha! I’m drunk on Scheppers draught!
Puns are fun!
by NoNameOnCard on Jun 10, 2009 12:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Unbelievable...
Rangeressary
"the poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G.K. Chesterton
Is he demanding a bunch of money too?
Or was it the shoulder that dropped him this far?
I'm on such a huge high right now.
Purke and Scheppers.
Wow.
Just, wow.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
And now
Tommy Mendonca out of Fresno State with our 2nd round selection.
Serenity now, insanity later.
-Lloyd Braun
by Kevin McBrayer on Jun 9, 2009 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Reminds me a lot of the Tommy Hunter selection.
Some real expensive guys in front of him, then go ahead and take a safe college guy who you know’ll sign quickly and for slot.
Fine with me.
If we sign Scheppers and Purke and Pimentel we might actually end up keeping that #1 overall farm system trophy another year.
What an awesome first two picks.
I literally screamed when I heard Scheppers’ name.
Awesome.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
The philosophy does sort of make sense to me
Go for it near the top of the draft with guys that have a chance to be stars, then go a little safer later on when the difference between guys is likely to be a lot less in terms of potential and value.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Awesome picks.
Now they just have to pitch up to the hype!
by oc on Jun 9, 2009 11:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Heh,
“People call me nuts, but I saw Strasburg pitch again for the second time and there’s no doubt: Tanner is the best [pitcher] in the country,” Batesole said. “With all due respect to Strasburg, I’d pick Tanner.”
haha, well, cool
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
who is that?
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on Jun 9, 2009 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
his coach
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 9, 2009 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Heh.
“But my Mom says I’m cool…”
-Milhouse
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on Jun 9, 2009 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
In related news...
My mom says you’re cool, dirk.
by NoNameOnCard on Jun 10, 2009 12:12 AM CDT up reply actions
Even after I took her out for a nice seafood dinner and then never called her again?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on Jun 10, 2009 6:01 AM CDT up reply actions
Dorthy Mantooth is a SAINT!!!
A Cowboy fan from Dallas residing in enemy terretory since 1990..
Awesome
This be akin to inking Javier Baredem for your lead, and then Daniel Day-Lewis calls to volunteer for the supporting role…
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
Bah. I know how he spells it
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
And then Clint Eastwood declines to direct it!!!
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
Michael Bay
Clearly the way to go.
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
Hey, this draft was big and explosive, not ham-fisted and cloying with cliched, one-dimensional characters at every turn.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
Heh.
Yah. True dat.
Cuz “ham-fisted” and “Michael Bay” are 2 ships that nary have crossed in the night.
I like your use of cloying, though. That is a witheringly descriptive disparager that seems tailor-made for amateur film snobs like ourselves. Hope you don’t mind if I poach that, Tressa, when I’m big-braining some cinema rubes around the water cooler.
It’s funny, I work w/ a team of 8 in an office of much larger, and everybody in the team is pretty good friends, etc., and there is one guy who is known as the Anti-recommender. He’s bright, a great guy, articulate too, which makes the situation all the more befuddling and comical. You wouldn’t believe how many times he’s gotten a rasberry review on his “big big recommendations.” Now we just politely pretend to listen.
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 Jun 9, 2009 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think Micheal Bay is self aware enough to overdirect a movie.
He’s pretty terrible, though.
He and his spiritual protege McG are the epitome of the all-flash no-substance, glossy music video-esque film culture that needs to go away and never ever come back again.
Plus he keeps trying to make Shia Labuff happen, which is actually a worse crime against humanity than the fact that MDB won an Oscar- there, I said it.
Shia Labuff is terrible and needs to die in an apartment fire, fucking pronto.
No good can come from him being alive.
Oh, and steal away. “Imitation is the sincerest form of...” and “If you can’t beat ’em…” and all that jazz.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on Jun 9, 2009 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
McG
ruined what could have been a good movie in Terminator Salvation. All flash no substance, the characters in their movies are the explosions and the people are special effects.
Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
I still liked Terminator.
Do I like Terminators? Absolutely. Do I want to see Batman fight the killer robots? Yes. Not a very good movie, but I enjoyed it.
Top 10 Talent...
With an injury history. Just to be fair. So, he comes with riskssss.
I’m not trying to be a dick or anything. But, since someone will link-up this page in 2012, I want to go on record as saying, I was 100% for Shelby Miller. And we skipped over him. I think it was a mistake. He’s a man beast at 18, what will he be at 25? Purke is Left-Handed, and that’s helpful. I hope for the best. But, Miller was my #1 and it did not happen.
But
what does that have to do with Scheppers?
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 9, 2009 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions
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My first part, Is (Scheppers) Top 10 Talent? I don’t think so. Injury histories do matter to me.
The last part: I should have stated: OT.
Injury history is why he didn't get picked until 44
If he had no injury problems at all, do you think he would have been a top 10 pick?
he'd have been a top 5 pick, no?
a college guy who throws 96+ is not gonna last long
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
The pick has tons of intrigue. So, I like it in some respects.
But, I believe in the theory that says some people just simply GET HURT. Emmitt Smith was not one of those. Nolan Ryan was not one of those. Jamie Moyer. Randy Johnson.
So, I don’t believe in picking people who demonstrate a propensity to get hurt.
That said, he is an intriguing talent. And the Draft overall has been fun.
you forgot about brandon mccarthy
not one of… wait its late I can’t remember, has he ever been injured?
Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
A single scary injury is a demonstrated propensity to get hurt?
by NoNameOnCard on Jun 10, 2009 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions
Scheppers
started pitching in college didn’t he? If it wasn’t for the slagging his arm took at the hands of the Fresno State staff, he’d be one of the lowest mileage arms in the draft in years.
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
Well said.
As a non-pitcher for most of his college career, his arm was not conditioned to withstand the workload he was given.
by NoNameOnCard on Jun 10, 2009 12:21 AM CDT up reply actions
http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/06/bas-blog-on-tanner-scheppers-last-start.html
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 9, 2009 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Jim: With Scheppers, when I was making my nonstop phone calls for first-round projections, I could see that coming. I think teams are leery of a shoulder injury. Not sure what he’s asking for financially, but I think it was more a healthy concern, not that there’s something horribly wrong right now, but just the history of being hurt. How about the Rangers getting Purke at 14 and Scheppers at 44? If those guys stay healthy and reach their ceilings, and you package them in a rotation with Holland and Feliz. Wow.
John: Jim real quick, first-round winners: My winners are Colorado, Texas and I’ll also say Minnesota and Cleveland, popping the Twins and Indians for getting White and Gibson so late in the first round.
Just for what it's worth
The talk surrounding Scheppers reminds me a lot of what was being said about Joba Chamberlain in his draft.
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BAH
y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Rangers...don't suck...
by Kinslerhomer on Jun 9, 2009 11:41 PM CDT up reply actions
This does kind of make up for having to put up with Hank Blalock.
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
Now this kid's got to sign, right?
I mean, he COULD decide not to and go back to St. Paul, but that isn’t very likely…he can’t hold us hostage as much as Purke can, right? He’s as good as ours? If so, I guess I don’t get why he slipped so far…just injury issues?
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
It depends on whether or not Matt Harrington is his idol.
What a moron. He left millions of dollars on the table multiple times.
by NoNameOnCard on Jun 10, 2009 12:16 AM CDT up reply actions
Scheppers isn't likely to come back to St. Paul
And of interesting note Harrington pitched for the Saints as well. The Saints already have a full roster and had to move on from Sheppers quickly (he was released directly after his last start in game 1 of a doubleheader to make room for an additional bullpen arm).
Scheppers was a good fit for the Saints but he wasn’t really showcasing much other than power pitching. He threw mostly fastballs. The Saints radar gun, like everyone else, game him some extra umph on the fastball. Most of the radars indicated he was touching 98 but sitting mostly around 95 in his last start. It sounds like he’ll need some work on his other pitches in the minors (as do allpitchers not named Stephen Strassburg).
"It takes a big dog to weigh 1000 pounds"
Hopkins said in the conference call tonight
that they really liked the way he’s been spinning his breaking ball, just for what that’s worth.
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 10, 2009 12:36 AM CDT up reply actions
when I saw him
in Sioux City, he threw maybe 5 or 6 non fastballs.
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
Just passing it along
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 10, 2009 12:42 AM CDT up reply actions
Harrington got his money.
Insurance policy.
Kid got terrible advice and followed it. I hesitate to call him an idiot for something that happened when he was 18 or 19, especially given the horrible advice he was given by his agents (espeicially Tanzer, who should be deported), but certainly it was a horrible decision in retrospect.
At least he was smart enough to take out a policy on his arm.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on Jun 10, 2009 6:08 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah
I think he has a much higher likelihood of signing. I’d frankly be pretty surprised if he doesn’t sign, assuming nothing further surfaces that refutes their belief about his health.
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 10, 2009 12:26 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't know id anyone's posted this before
But as far as Purke goes, TR Sullivan has a quote up from Purke saying he wants to sign (and an obligatory Nolan Ryan tie in). We’ll see.
Alls I know is getting Scheppers makes me feel a lot better about whatever signability risk Purke might be.
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
purke has a nolan connection FWIW IIRC
his “agency” is a company owned by nolan’s partner with the express and corpus, im pretty sure
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
For what it's worth
Purke also said that he wasn’t leaning either way as far as turning pro or attending TCU. He did make a big deal of Nolan, though, said that it is really special to say that Nolan is your boss. Also said that he was glad to stay in Texas was
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by Brett Perryman on Jun 10, 2009 12:41 AM CDT up reply actions
Interesting.
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 like how this sounds
“I don’t think it will be difficult. It might take some time but I want to play baseball and I want to play for the Texas Rangers. I think the negotiations will end up being pretty easy.”
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
Translated ...
I’m gonna sign but I’ll have to wait until mid-August or Bud will take Jonny’s donuts away.
Fix'd
I’m gonna sign but I’ll have to wait until mid-August or Bud will take Jonny’s donuts Guillermo Pimentel away
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
It depends on who you talk to
either way, we’re one of the top teams involved
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
"The Rangers can go home after this and it'd be a successful draft" - Jon Mayo
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
Crazy hyperbole from the analysts for the second consecutive year.
Awesome!
Wonderboy, what is the secret of your power? Wonderboy, won't you take me far away from the mucky-muck now. -- Tenacious D
One more thing...
As previously observed, Tyler Matzek seems like a douche.
Remember to retire Fin's number, Mark.
I'm sure this has been mentioned, but it's still really cool:
From Jim Callis talking about the draft as related to the top 100 prospect list:
San Diego State righthander Stephen Strasburg is already the favorite to rank No. 1 on next year’s Top 100. Assuming they sign, there are two more college players (North Carolina first baseman Dustin Ackley, Missouri righthander Kyle Gibson*), two independent league righthanders (Aaron Crow and Tanner Scheppers) and five high schoolers (outfielder Donavan Tate, lefthanders Tyler Matzek and Matthew Purke and righthanders Jacob Turner and Zack Wheeler) who are all but locks to make the list.
So, yah. Two guys added yesterday who are all but locks to make the top 100 list.
Awe.
Some.
-* This is from June 1st, so Gibson is probably no longer a lock with the forearm fracture.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
Damn
*if baseball pants are bloated for over 4 hours please call your doctor
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Seriously.
I woke up this morning with an overwhelming sense of contentment.
Going upside with our first pick was great, but hearing them call out Tanner Schepper’s name with our suppy pick was pure ecstacy.
The big league team looks like they’re headed for an extended funk and I’m still on a baseball high right now that ain’t going away anytime soon.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on Jun 10, 2009 8:14 AM CDT up reply actions
No doubt.
I was absolutely stunned when I heard Schepper’s name called over my 105.3FM last night. Wows!
2 of the Top 10 talents in the draft with the 14th & 44th pick???
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
and after reading the THT article
on Medusa’s defense I’m relatively sanguine about him. And little Bobby Erlin is a good pick, I think. I don’t get the fixation with pitchers being tall.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
x
If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball. - Section 339
Scheppers BA article from Feb 08
details his transition from SS to pitcher under the tutelage of former Met first rounder Bobby Jones.
"He's old school in that he give up his groin like that. It hurt me when he do that" -- Worsh on Chris Davis' stretch at first base to end the game vs. the Angels on 5/16
Anyone recall
what Scheppers was offered last year by the Pirates?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
about 1 mill
"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon
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