Tom Verducci calls Josh Hamilton the best player in baseball
Not news to any of us, but it's cool that he said he may be the best talent since Mickey Mantle.
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I laughed at that as well.
That might be worse than Neftali Perez
Genesis 1: 3-4 (Rangers Edition): And JD said "Let there be Lee," and there was Lee. And JD saw the Lee, that it was good: and JD divided the Rangers from the Angels. by Aquaman56
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
yeah
can’t figure out the pedro thing. the perez thing isn’t forgiveable but has some logic based on the former player Neifi Perez
by TheHuntforRedOctober on Aug 17, 2010 1:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, there's a former player named Pedro Borbon.
Immortalized in the movie Airplane.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
Now pinch-hitting for Pedro Borbon....
Many Mota…Mota…Mota….
"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 Dad told me he recently caught this movie on TCM.
Said it’s the exact same plot, same names, etcetera.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
I forgot the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
hah
that’s a funny coincidence.
by TheHuntforRedOctober on Aug 17, 2010 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd say it's closer to 4/80
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
4/80 is a bit steep
since he is under team control for two more seasons.
If he is a $20 million player – and given that he’s an injury risk, that is probably the peak, I’d probably say $8-9 million for next year and $14-15 for the year after.
So 4/60, given the discount associated with the Rangers taking on all of the injury risk, is fair
Go Rice Owls!
Him and Cliffly would add ~35mil to next year's payroll
Both of those things will not happen in the same offseason.
"I support you, Wash; I’ve always supported you," Young said
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
Well
Hamilton will almost certainly be getting $8 million next year regardless. You could structure the long-term deal to escalate his pay so that he’s not getting a full amount in 2011 and 2012. But you’re pretty much committing the Rangers to be a $100 million payroll team in a few years if you want to keep Lee too.
With the raises due several Rangers, adding Lee won’t be trivial. It is doable, but not trivial.
Go Rice Owls!
Right
"I support you, Wash; I’ve always supported you," Young said
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
I haven't had a chance to look more closely at the numbers
But I think being truly competitive to sign Lee will probably come down to what round the Rangers make it to in the playoffs. I think if they make the ALCS that they would make enough this year that they weren’t expecting that, combined with subsequent increase in ticket sales next year, they could make it a realistic competition with the Yankees.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
by GhettoBear04 on Aug 17, 2010 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions
4/80 is a bit steep...
Even if you think he’s a $25MM/year in years 3 and 4, discount his last two arb years to 60 and 80% of that, you end up with 15/20/25/25 for $75MM. 4/80 seems too high to me as well.
It would be interesting to know how the market would discount that further for his history (both injury and drug). Maybe 4/60 is right, I don’t know, but in general there’s not much precedent to refer to. His contract/extension situation will be very interesting to watch.
he's only making 3.5 this year, or something close to that
no way he’d get up to 15 million in arbitration this year.
Go Rice Owls!
I just hope
we can get Manny Mota to PH for him.
"Look, we're basically on earth to shit and fuck. So unless your job's to help people shit or fuck, it's not that important, so relax."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Today's lineup
"@JeffWilson_FWST: Rangers lineup: Andrus, ss; Borbon, cf; Hamilton, dh; Guerrero, rf; Murphy, lf; Cantu, 3b; Molina, c; Moreland, 1b; Blanco, 2b."
Well then... I would like to see this Jeff Sullivan pornagraphy.
by ghostofErikThompson on Aug 11, 2010 10:35 PM PDT
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2010 2:16 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
that looks like
a AAA line up to me.
I soloed in the Mile High Club!
All things considered with who we have available...
that’s not bad.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
That's actually the "good" lineup...
with whom the Rangers have healthy.
by ghostofErikThompson on Aug 17, 2010 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
All things considered, decent lineup.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
Seems like I read that lineup somewhere else a few minutes ago....
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
Mikey finally gets a day off.
yea.
rah.
"Biggest mistake in DFW history?" - Bigger mistake in LSB history.
"Back in Irish's day you had to kill a man before you were taken seriously in polite society." - Aquaman56 06/25/10
by Samuel_L_Bronkowitz on Aug 17, 2010 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Borbon hitting second...vomit.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
I'd almost want to try Murph out there...or Blanco.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
Makes more sense to me.
"Look, we're basically on earth to shit and fuck. So unless your job's to help people shit or fuck, it's not that important, so relax."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Yeah
Who wants that sack of shit up here. Demote that worthless sack of shit
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
The Honus is on you.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
pwnus I think
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Negative, Ghostrider.
Do you live live in Austin? Where ’bouts?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
You're like my grandpa. I've answered this to you like 14 times.
I live in Kyle. Two towns south of Austin. 15 mins and I’m in the big city.
"I don't really like pitchers." - Nelson Cruz
I think I ask you during GDTs and then I bail...
I’m sorry dude…I’ll be in Austin the weekend before TGiving…maybe we can get together at Maria’s and eat tacos and drink birra.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Sounds like fun.
I’ll have to see what the Thanks-G schedule will be like. Wife works for restaurant, so she usually is working holiday, so we take the week before or after off…
"I don't really like pitchers." - Nelson Cruz
pretty much expected
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
at least there is no Arias in the lineup
if yesterday finally got us to the point where we will stop making extraordinary efforts to keep control of it, maybe there is a tiny bit of silver lining in the dark clouds of yesterday. Too bad to see that Young isn’t right back in the lineup, hopefully right back in there tomorrow.
Arias will not be a Ranger in 48 hours.
"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 agree
"I support you, Wash; I’ve always supported you," Young said
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
Where is Esteban and how long will it take him to get here?
That should be how long The Cockroach has remaining in his Ranger career.
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
I've always liked German
good at getting on base, still pretty good defense, versatile if not great in the field. I always thought he deserved to have more of a major league career than he has actually gotten.
Hey Rodney check your email
"There's really no way of knowing... Sometimes when I see their big eyes looking up from my lap I think, that's definitely a homeless guy in a fur coat." Betty White on SNL
by Pocket Ninja on Aug 17, 2010 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Just fished it out of my junk mail.
THX!
"I support you, Wash; I’ve always supported you," Young said
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
I keep coming back to the site today..
…hoping to see a post that he will no longer be a Ranger in 48 minutes.
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
Last I had looked they had the same ammount of errors at 15,
but that was a few weeks ago, so it may have changed a little.
Regardless, I don’t feel much better with Cantu out there.
by lost in space on Aug 17, 2010 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions
If that ball that hit the seam in the carpet
that got by Cantu happened to get by Face, there would have been holy hell within LSB.
Same with the ball that was half-assed by Tiny E.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
Elvis made me angry last night, in every way imaginable....he was acting like a 12 year old.
THat’s the last time I’ll bring it up.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Young is on a short leash
and I don’t think anyone can deny that.
by lost in space on Aug 17, 2010 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
It's out of hand in this place.
Most of LSB is acting as though GNettles or BRobinson never hit into a DP, have a ball get thru the hole or go down the line for a double.
It’s become a LSB Bit.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
Will you please stop talking about bits.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Josey, let's get real man, Young sucks at 3rd, it would be better served for him to move...would it not?
He’s been great offensively, but he sucks D with the glove.
I love Young, but he sucks in the field.
"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 think he's having a real bad year at 3B this year (defensively).
He started slow last year but showed improvement towards the end.
Not sure what the future holds for him but Jeter got better in 2009 than he did at 2008.
I don’t think it’s Young’s skillset so much as it is unfamiliarity with the position and a lack of confidence.
That’s not an excuse, he should be better than he has been but the criticism he receives in here is over the top and it totally stems from him treating LSB Favorite Son JD like dog shit on his cleats before the 2009 season.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
Given that his arm is considered his strongest asset on D...
Can someone explain why he plays so damn shallow?? It seems to me like that exaggerates his weak reaction times.
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
maybe bc he is slow coming in on the ball?
That’s a good point though and what I said above in the subject line is the only thing I can think of.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
So when exactly will Mike get "familiar" and "confident" with the position?
I would imagine that spring training and all of last year, then spring training and every game so far this year would be plenty of time to get familiar with a position. It’s not like he is transitioning from the outfield to infield or moving from catcher to second base. He just moved from short stop to third base, I realize they are different positions, but I would imagine for a professional infielder, the learning curve wouldn’t be 2 full seasons.
by michael bluth on Aug 17, 2010 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions
He never will
because he’s not good defensively. Its stupid to think that at this point, after 2 full seasons and offseasons to prepare for the position, that he will all of a sudden be anything more than below average.
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
Oh, the irony
It’s become a LSB Bit.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 17, 2010 5:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Not defending
Cantu or Elvis, but there were plenty of other things that were causing holy hell at the time. Hard to hate on those two when Arias is doing his thing.
Also, Cantu is
at best just as bad as Young defensively. TotalZone and UZR have him as worse, and DRS says about equal.
Yeah, Cantu is terrible
"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 was listening on the radio
and Barnett and Nadel sounded so frustrated.
by lost in space on Aug 17, 2010 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I was on the road listening to Barnett during that entire
bottom of the 8th.
It was a Judy Borbon hitting second kind of vomit.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
My blood was boiling giving up the lead
right after Molina hit the longest single in Ranger’s history to score Cantu.
by lost in space on Aug 17, 2010 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions
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