Salty Projections discussion
by scoop16 on Mar 22, 2010 1:02 PM CDT
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I just want the guy to stay relatively healthy, re-discover some plate patience, and be a poor man's Mickey Tettleton. Is that asking too much?
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I will take a Mickey Tettleton career from Salty at this point. I know he's still young, The injury thing is frustrating...but out of his control.
And cheers on the DBT mention….Patterson Hood is a country-fried Jim Morrison.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Saw them play @ Dan's old place on the square in the late 90s
Great in that small atmosphere, got them to play a harder version of ‘Dixie Chicken’. Lowell George would have been proud.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
DBT
Saw them in the parking lot of Waterloo records on Thursday for SXSW. They played stuff from their new album which came out last week. The new stuff sounded great, although I think they were a little groggy. Those guys party pretty hard, and a 2 pm set probably was a little too early for them.
Not mediocre. Right about average
I don't like the way Salty's season is starting
and I also didn’t like the performance I saw last year (when healthy).
Funny you mention Tettleton. BP last year said that Teagarden was Mickey Tettleton with good defense.
I just wish this team would let him play 4-5 games a week and see what happens.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
If either of them can turn into a patient bopper,
Hurdle should be able to hang out at the cool kids’ table with Maddux.
So is your projection based on injury, poor play, or a want for more Earl Grey?
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
Dude back off.
I’m leading the Teagarden bandwagon. : )
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
+ 1 if all else fails go with the hometown boy
If the Rangers don't make the play-offs this year I'm gonna go all Epic Bearded Man on your ass.
I have a bed feeling...
we haven’t seen the end of Salty’s shoulder issues.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Yup
I have a bad feeling there’s an underlying issue here that’s gonna take him out for most of the season. Or worse yet, even end his catching career if they can’t fix it on the third try.
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Salty
I’ve been pretty pessimistic in some of my other projections, so I decided to be more sunny on this one. We’ll see if the TOS surgery worked.
Not mediocre. Right about average
This joke fell flat...
The concept works, but the execution wasn’t there. I’m disappointed in myself.
keep your chin up kid.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
I need something to aim for.
And that’s how it’s done.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
aiming what?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
My salty projector.
Dude, tell me you got my joke.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Yes.
Dude. You getting the emails re: draft times?
Scoop?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Yeah
So, if I’m reading right: 1st round Fri, 2nd round Sat, subsequent rounds Sun-Mon
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
it will all be one night, either fri or sat, don't know yet.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
LOL it's cool cmkelly29 you have a high batting average in the joke dept.
If the Rangers don't make the play-offs this year I'm gonna go all Epic Bearded Man on your ass.
Until he proves differently, I have to project based on his prior shitty performance.
I hope he busts out this season, but I have little confidence that he will.
"Ok, post your favorite moment of the Tom Hicks era
Mine is today when he sold the team." - t ball
Yep
whatever he did in High School is pretty meaningless at this point. That’s all long ago and far away. I expect him to be a little better than he has been, but unfortunately he really has to be a lot better.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
I think it'll be a rough season for Salty
200 PA was my optimistic view. If he plays more than 50 games with the way he’s been battling these injuries and ineffectiveness, I’ll be impressed (or depressed, if it’s due to failure by Teagarden to do any better).
I figured a .230/.310/.380 wasn’t too far beyond what he might put up — a handful of home-runs, a couple of singles, a decent number of walks, and a whole lot of outs.
Last year he was terrible'
Only place he can go is up. Or get worse. You know, one or the other.
I fear that he’s never going to be what we thought/hoped the Rangers were getting.
"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.
Then he grounded out weakly to second.
Concurred
But most teams do. I don’t think most people realize just how hard it is to find good backstops.
yep, the top catcher prospect make it exponentially less than other prospects
or at least it seems that way
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Not sure if it works out that way
But given the number of good catching prospects around baseball at any given point and the number that actually become quality players, I feel pretty safe in saying its the toughest position to develop.
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
This is why I always tell my friends to make their sons
switch hitting catchers. There’s a place for those guys, and I think Salty has a place here if he can stay healthy. He’s still really young.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
This community loved to make fun of Laird and Barajas
But when they were here I thought they were ok.
by Black Francis on Mar 22, 2010 10:47 PM CDT up reply actions
we aren't missing either one
""It was a ball, dude," Davis said. "I don’t swing at balls anymore." -CD
Were you in a coma last season?
Those two were much worse than Laird or Barajas ever were for the Rangers.
by Black Francis on Mar 23, 2010 11:18 AM CDT up reply actions
Yep
every catcher since Pudge has been another step down hill.
Barajas was as good as we have had since Pudge.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
What if
we traded for whoever loses the Marson-Carlos Santana C-of-the-future battle in CLE? Both of these guys are about ready to go, and they hit for avg. and take walks which are foreign concepts to Salty and Tea. Maybe Font for Marson or anyone but Feliz or Holland for Santana, or something…
"He said blink
We gonna send the hounds in
I said wait
Cause here I come..."
- "Here I Come" - The Roots
by ChadtheInhaler on Mar 23, 2010 12:32 AM CDT up reply actions
Interesting idea, although there's really no "battle" there
Santana’s gonna win unless he pulls a Max Ramirez. Marson’s just the placeholder for now, as I understand it.
I wouldn’t mind having Marson, I guess, but he’s got less power than the average NL pitcher. If you want an Ecksteinian catcher, I’d call Cincy about Ryan Hanigan.
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