Sunday morning Rangers stuff

about how Hunter’s value may be at a peak and that other teams may be willing to overpay for him and turned it into a bizarre straw man “wise GMs would never trade Hunter right now” statement. Your statement is a lot closer to “Hunter is essentially untouchable” than mine was to “We should trade Hunter”

No one is advocating dumping Hunter. No one is advocating calling around asking for who is available for him. Do I want a hole in the back of the rotation? OF COURSE NOT. But the internal candidates to fill that hole are a hell of a lot better than the current internal candidates to fill some of the other positions on the roster.

I posted the question above – Houston calls you and says “We’ll trade you Jason Castro for Tommy Hunter” do you do it ? (never mind that they’d be dumb to offer it, but Houston has been known to make bad trades, and teams have been known to overpay for Hunter). It leaves a hole at #5… but now you have a potential franchise catcher.

that you get an offer inline with this year’s performance by hunter as measured by traditional stats. In that case, they are probably overpaying greatly, so I doubt it’s a mistake.

You may have to patch the rotation with a FA, but if someone wants to pay you for a pitcher who is 11-2 with a sub 4 ERA and has 4 years of eligibility, take the money and run, much like the Rangers would have been wise to do last year if someone made an offer for Feldman.

I like Hunter more than most, but I still think he is more solid rotation depth than front of the rotation type pitcher, even though he has been performing more like a front of the rotation guy this year.

I would throw a dart in the dark and see if harden, in very short doses could find his command and extra vela and maybe, maybe, fill the franky void. Though i suspect failure. In a big way.

I’m fine with whatever the Rangers do. I don’t think either pitcher will be significant players down the stretch, which would tend to put me on the side of going with Holland.

However, I’m not gonna be one of the kneejerkers losing it if they stick with Harden.

Pardon my ignorance, but do we not roll w/ just 4 starters w/ travel days and what not?

And you are mixing up someone being able to be a major league contributor at a very early age with that player establishing at that age what they are.

You don’t need to be an all-star in two years to ever be an all-star. But you’d better show some potential.

On the one hand, you have demonstrable failures, like Jason Botts, who never show anything in his major league stint.

But Derek Holland has shown some promise in his. Elvis has shown a whole lot of promise in his. I think almost any baseball mind would say that Elvis, for where he is now, is going to be very good in the near future.

The Levine criteria are an excellent excuse to discard the Jason Botts’s into the trash and never look back when they give you NOTHING for 3 years. But if a player gives some signs of being capable of reaching his potential at the big league level, even a Chris Davis like burst of success, you have to adjust your measuring stick.