I’m still making the bet that he’s viewed as this teams best hitter going into next years ASB.

Blalock is crapping the bed in this Thing, it may be time to bring Davis up and play whoever has the hot bat.

“Rudy and I haven’t had a chance to work together as much as guys like Mike or Hank or Ian, guys that he’s been around for several years,” Davis said. “This was really our first year to work together. We had a tough time staying on the same page because neither one of us really knew how to go about it. He would suggest certain things that would work for a few games, and then it wouldn’t work. It’s not Rudy’s fault. We worked as much as we could. He did everything that he could to help me.”

Maybe I’m reading more into this than I should but here goes.

“Rudy and I haven’t had a chance to work together as much as guys like Mike or Hank or Ian, guys that he’s been around for several years,”

When your starting 1B is hitting .202/.256/.415 with 114 K’s in 277 PA and he doesn’t get the help that others are getting? Huh? He may mean that Rudy has helped these other players for more years, but it really doesn’t feel like that is what is going on. There were enough eyes in AAA to get him help pretty quickly, and they apparently knew how to look at a video.

“We had a tough time staying on the same page because neither one of us really knew how to go about it.”

Wait a minute. The Rangers’ hitting coach didn’t know how to start helping a struggling hitter that was here for half of the previous season and from ST through the end of June of this year? Huh?

I’m usually pretty quiet as I am not too schooled in sabermetrics, but this seems to be basic baseball stuff. The team’s hitting coach should be the person working with the struggling hitters on his team. Is this what is happening with Josh Hmilton too? Does Rudy not have enough time to work with those needing his help? I know that every instructor cannot click with all players, but it then becomes his responsibility to get the right person to communicate with that player. I haven’t been a “fire Rudy” or “Rudy’s the best” fanatic, but this really seems wrong.

continues to struggle on this road trip then I’d have no problem bringing CD back up when the Rangers get back to Arlington.

I also think it may do Josh some good to work with Coolbaugh as well. Perhaps he can find something to help him out as well. Certainly couldn’t hurt at this point.

I’m really starting to question Jaramillo.

In looking at films, it was determined Davis had narrowed his stance from previously standing about shoulder width and standing too upright. The conclusion was those factors made him almost fall back when swinging and swing up.

This really struck me while watching him this year.

I try not to channel my inner batting coach too often, but everytime I’d watch him stand up there I’d be praying for him to just crouch down even a little.

He seemed so much taller and stiffer than even last year, and he’s always been a tall stance guy.

I’m getting the feeling you’re on the “Jaramillo needs to go” wagon with a lot of us?

Was this already common knowledge?

because Hank Blalock has to be hurt soon… right?

What is his Game Score?

Davis stated that he “didn’t watch video” of himself….

In this day and age I find it almost irresponsible to not utilize the technology we have.

Seems that if he had utilized said video he would’ve noticed the changes in his swing from 08 to 09.

"We’ve basically told him, ‘It’s not so much your swing. It’s your pitch selection. You swing at pitches out of the strike zone.’ When we watched him on television [as a Ranger], almost all of his strikeouts are pitches that are down. They’re balls. So he’s a little more disciplined at the plate, a little more patient."

Wasn’t he just missing everything, period? I thought I remembered someone on here posting his in-zone contact % and it was pathetic. I don’t think he was just missing balls that were too low.

J-Smoak had never hit a roadbump on his way to glory.

It’s like that movie with Dinero and Wesley snipes where the new free agent comes in and takes Snipes’ number and then he stops hitting. Chris Davis came down and stole Justin’s power.

Now I don’t know what we should do but, all im saying is in the movie…Dinero stabs the other guy…

Best offseason acquisition this year = New hitting coach, ___________ (insert anyone but Rudy Jaramillo)

I’m starting to think “Nay”. Even the best coaches can lose the room, so to speak. I can’t help but think Rudy has lost the room here.

Isn’t film study part of Hitting Coach 101?

In looking at films, it was determined Davis had narrowed his stance from previously standing about shoulder width and standing too upright. The conclusion was those factors made him almost fall back when swinging and swing up.

this team is being designed around defense and pitching and they need a more consistant than explosive team offensively. In other words, better to score 5 & 5 than 1 & 9.

Davis better at AAA than MLB this year.
Nellie good at AAA last year and good at MLB this year.
Young not great last year and very, very good this year.
Ian and Josh great last year and bad this year.

There are no conclusions that can be drawn. Things are all over the place. I’m not saying anything good or bad about Rudy but you can’t use any of the performances this year to prove a point.

there are some really angry folks:

Posted by rudy can coach @ 5:35 PM Mon, Aug 03, 2009
Brett you are an idiot. “I don’t know what to make of Rudy these days.” Do you even read past blogs. Nolan himself said the players are not putting into action what Rudy is teaching them and that the onus is on the players, not the hitting coach. Too many players around the league come to Rudy to work on their swing, and he normally finds something to help them. How much of this is simply Davis not listening to Rudy? He himself said in the article he was more comfortable with his AAA coach because they had been together longer. Guess what – you can’t take your minor league coach with you wherever you go. You have to listen to the coach, discuss what you do with what he sees and put it into place. Sounds like a 23 year old who is whining because he couldn’t hit and he’s trying to find someone to blame. There are a lot of AAA players who have short term success in the bigs but can’t adjust once pitchers adjust to them. He needs to shut up and be coachable, which it doesn’t sound like he was being when he was in Arlington. He even admits Young and Kinsler do good with Rudy because they’ve been together for a while. It appears he’s not listening or being coachable. I hope that changes when he gets back. He is a very good defensive player at 1B and had good pop in the bat last year. I’d love to see him here and succeed, but he has to be coachable or he’ll be considered a AAAA player – too good for AAA and not good enough for the bigs. He needs to get his attitude and mind right. If Rudy is gone, there will be many players very dissatisfied and many who will struggle. Get off his back you jerkwad

And here I thought I’d taken the pansy way out and not really drawn much of a conclusion.

MLB Tonight with Victor Rojas, John Hart and Al Leiter… its alot better, a whole lot better than any other group of baseball tonight crew that i’ve seen run out there by ESPN or the MLB network.

Im actually not annoyed by their commentary, and having two guys who worked for the Ranger’s helps cuz they actually know and talk about the Rangers.