Tuesday a.m. Rangers stuff

shoes, man. Can’t do that as a bouncy-bouncy AAAA player.

good for divorce lawyers.

a bad economy is bad for divorce lawyers, due to how expensive it is to get divorced.

Also, couples with only 1 means of income probably won’t be splitting until the job market is better.

he shows up tied as the 10th best CF in baseball in terms of WAR on fangraphs. He has consistently been in the top half of CFs in baseball since being a Ranger.

I think Adam’s numbers seem pretty reasonable and someone will grab him. Its just one of those positions thats tough to fill.

Type B. Here is a best guess at the possible rankings.

Depending on what Sheets costs, though.

I think he’s too risky to sink more than 2 or 3mm guaranteed into a one year deal.

There are plenty of other risky types you could bring in on one year deals if that’s the route you wanna go to add rotation depth for ’10.

DL Jones.

would be fine also.

You go with Hamilton, Borbon and Cruz next season, with Murphy as your 4th outfielder, and potentially Boggs as your 5th outfielder.

You’ve already got option here, Hamilton, Cruz, Murphy, Borbon, Golson, Boggs, Gentry even, and at some point next year maybe Moreland. If the team goes outside for an OF it should be for a huge upgrade, not an also ran to displace one of these internal options.

there is no free agent named Hinske and I cannot imagine why you would trade for the Hinske that is already signed to a too large contract.

Is his option with the Tigers definitely not going to vest…?

I thought he was right on top of that games-played/PA incentive.

We’re much better with BORPs.

he likes to pretend he has this info in his head, he didn’t even have to look it up ‘cause he’s such a baseball genius.

That would have failed… that’s the point

unless, imo, you know you are going to the playoffs, and you think it gets you a ring

I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should have predicted that Holland would outperform Halladay, and I would guess that Halladay will finish with better post July 29 numbers. Like I said, when we were all debating it, I said a few times that a problem with giving up so much for so long for a short term boost was that you couldn’t just write 9-2, 2.17 down for Halladay the rest of this stretch run. It was more unpredictable than that. And like I said, I was called names for being so dense as to speculate that something so absurd could happen. My main issues were timing and just how overwhelming the package was, but this was something that had to factor in. Yes, you were doing it for next year as well, but NO ONE would have considered the deal if they didn’t think he would be a huge boost this summer/fall. And they can still trade for him for next year if they want, at a reduced price.

What Halladays done in his career up to this point helps us out none. So while Halladay may be better then Holland next year, I suspect he will but not by a wide margin, Holland has been better lately and will be with us longer than halladay would have been

You know you’re in playoff contention this year so a huge factor in the trade is do you gain much this year.

There is statistical data to consider Holland to be greater than Halladay for this team. The cost to get him and the cost to pay his salary play a huge role. First, there’s the possibility that Holland is becoming the ace pitcher we were hoping for in the minors. Then consider the team’s financial issues and what it means to bring Halladay in. The Blue Jays were wanting Smoak IIRC, so you’re giving up one of the bats you’re expecting to help the team next season plus making it tougher on the team to make a move with a tighter payroll. If the two pitchers are at least somewhat comparable next season, then Holland > Halladay for us.

And this is all a gamble that needs a lot of things to go right for the Rangers to make the deal work. You need Halladay to be great and much better than Holland as well as the Rangers to make the playoffs to make it worth giving up 6 years of Holland plus Smoak/Feliz/Perez. Its a gamble that I wouldn’t want to take and looking at the two pitchers now plus where the team is at shows why its such a tough gamble.

Personally, I wouldn’t place a very high priority on any of those guys. As much as Arias blows, you might be in a situation next spring where you need a cheap infield utility guy, but other than that, meh.

On Tracy, a big problem that I see is that he provides no defensive value or versatility. He can’t catch, he can’t play 3B, I seriously doubt that he would be anything but a liability in an outfield corner, and he’s not even a very good 1B. So here, he has to be such a good hitter that he’s more valuable as a DH than Max Ramirez or whoever that one bench spot might go to. What I don’t know is if scouts might be saying that what he’s doing this summer is for real and that a light has come on at the plate. I tend to underrate that likelihood, but I could be wrong.

Guys like him are a dime a dozen, and often cheaper if you’re willing to shop around.