Angels fortify bullpen, call up Jerome Williams
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 17, 2011 2:46 PM CDT
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Anaheim's relief corps have been a mess of late Starter Garrett Richards left Monday's game with an injury in the first inning, forcing the bullpen to go 8+ innings, and necessitating the addition of two new arms for yesterday's game.
Then yesterday, starter Tyler Chatwood got knocked out after failing to record a single out in the third inning, meaning that long reliever Trevor Bell had to pitch 4 1/3 innings.
Needing another fresh arm for the bullpen, the Angels are entering the Wayback Machine and purchasing the contract of Jerome Williams.
Williams, still just 29, was ranked the #19 prospect in the game by Baseball America prior to both the 2001 season (when he was sandwiched between Alex Escobar and Bobby Bradley) and the 2002 season (when he was between Josh Hamilton and Brandon Phillips). In 2003, he fell to #50, but was in good company...the five guys ahead of him were Aaron Heilman, Travis Hafner, Angel Guzman, Jeff Mathis, and Wilson Betemit, while the five behind him were Ervin Santana, Bryan Bullington, Andy Sisco, Zack Greinke, and Juan Rivera.
In any case, he had success with the Giants in 2003 and 2004, and was a guy I really wanted the Rangers to try and go get. San Francisco traded him in May, 2005, along with David Aardsma, to the Chicago Cubs for LaTroy Hawkins. Williams pitched well the rest of 2005, then posted an ERA north of 7 in 42 1/3 IP with the Cubs and Nationals in 2006 and 2007, and has been out of the majors ever since.
Williams pitched in the Cal League, the PCL, and in an Independent League in 2008, was terrible in the PCL in 2009, and then apparently didn't pitch in 2010.
Pitching for Salt Lake City in the PCL this season, though, he's been solid, and probably wouldn't embarrass himself as a long man for the Angels, for however long he ends up being up.
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I really want to get to Santana early tonight
He is due for a poor game. Just take the air right out of them in the first 3 innings.
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
He is?
"I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." - Jon Daniels
by GhettoBear04 on Aug 17, 2011 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Sure why not.
The Rangers always hit him well.
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
Bieber has a butch woman face
I bet he likes it up the ass from Billy Beene.
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
^Billy Bean
If I had a gun to my head and had to pick one pitcher to pitch a game to save my life.... I'd pick 1999 Rick Helling.
Dear Rangers, Make me forget about 2010.......
by matthewbschultz83 on Aug 17, 2011 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I suck
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
He does
If I had a gun to my head and had to pick one pitcher to pitch a game to save my life.... I'd pick 1999 Rick Helling.
Dear Rangers, Make me forget about 2010.......
by matthewbschultz83 on Aug 17, 2011 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Not the gay one, which is who I assumed he was referring to
Based on his overall comment.
If I had a gun to my head and had to pick one pitcher to pitch a game to save my life.... I'd pick 1999 Rick Helling.
Dear Rangers, Make me forget about 2010.......
by matthewbschultz83 on Aug 17, 2011 3:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Ha! Right, boomer?
Cause he’s gay
Go Strangers.
by hightowersmith on Aug 17, 2011 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Red x
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
The observation about Bieber's face is spot on.
My first thought when looking at the picture was, “Who in the hell is that butch lesbian with Danica?”
"Ok, post your favorite moment of the Tom Hicks era
Mine is today when he sold the team." - t ball
Thank you
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
Cockeyed dude with folded arms in background is thinking:
“I’d hit that.”
As to which one he’s referring to? We’ll never know.
Because he's gonna tear that thing up
"In fact, most of these free-swinging Padres couldn’t hit Dock’s funky palm ball. I threw it often. But by then, also, the first acid distractions entered: the TV flickered; the cracks in the wall started to move; the hand soap started to breathe — those sorts of things. Plus I was drawn to the outdoor garden between innings. Rain was near, I sensed." - A.J. Daulerio
I'm betting he would have to use a strap on
Quote from Yankees GM about the Texas Rangers Beating them in the 2010 ALCS "They manhandled us," Cashman said. "It was like a steamroller. We couldn't stop them."
He's claiming she has...
…a sideways vag
"George, why would I, a Julliard trained dermatologist, send him to another doctor?"---Cosmo Kramer
Didn't know he was Asian.
If I had a gun to my head and had to pick one pitcher to pitch a game to save my life.... I'd pick 1999 Rick Helling.
Dear Rangers, Make me forget about 2010.......
by matthewbschultz83 on Aug 17, 2011 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions
^she*
If I had a gun to my head and had to pick one pitcher to pitch a game to save my life.... I'd pick 1999 Rick Helling.
Dear Rangers, Make me forget about 2010.......
by matthewbschultz83 on Aug 17, 2011 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Because she's going to scissor with Danica
That’s what lesbos do.
by dolphinpuncher on Aug 17, 2011 4:36 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Justin Bieber is the she in question
by dolphinpuncher on Aug 17, 2011 6:24 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
There's a special place in hell reserved for those that post pictures of Bieber on the web.
That you dared do it on a baseball blog only makes your fate all the more certain, AJM.
"Ok, post your favorite moment of the Tom Hicks era
Mine is today when he sold the team." - t ball
You should watch his documentary
You’ll turn
I can't stand people who are intolerant of other people's taste in music or people who like Nickelback.
by jonas m. on Aug 17, 2011 4:03 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
gay?
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
Now it's a real pennant race!
SB Nation Dallas-Ft. Worth - Christopher Fittz is better than porn!
by philkid3 on Aug 17, 2011 4:20 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
i can't believe modern music has come to this
justin bieber even called himself the kurt cobain of his generation
Good, that means he'll kill himself soon, right?
"...out of the shadows of unprecedented success, the sun shines down upon this team waiting to thrill anew." - ghostofErikThompson
Wow. Want to watch.
"...out of the shadows of unprecedented success, the sun shines down upon this team waiting to thrill anew." - ghostofErikThompson
He really said that?
I hate the guy even more now.
"In fact, most of these free-swinging Padres couldn’t hit Dock’s funky palm ball. I threw it often. But by then, also, the first acid distractions entered: the TV flickered; the cracks in the wall started to move; the hand soap started to breathe — those sorts of things. Plus I was drawn to the outdoor garden between innings. Rain was near, I sensed." - A.J. Daulerio
I hate Beiber
But I have to let you know he did not really say that. It was completely made up on the internet
I can't stand people who are intolerant of other people's taste in music or people who like Nickelback.
by jonas m. on Aug 17, 2011 6:23 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
No really.
He said, “I wish Kurt Cobain had lived longer, so maybe some day he could be as talented as me.”
He then went on to say the same about Jesus and Jim Morrison.
"It’s Advil and beef in the Texas Rangers, you yankee bastard."
- Nolan Ryan
I saw it on twitter
then when I tried to research it, I could never find an interview where he said this. I could only find reports that the kurt cobain quote was a hoax
I can't stand people who are intolerant of other people's taste in music or people who like Nickelback.
by jonas m. on Aug 17, 2011 7:02 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Instead of finding a real source about that quote
I find stuff like this voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/09/does_justin_bieber_think_hes_t.html
I can't stand people who are intolerant of other people's taste in music or people who like Nickelback.
by jonas m. on Aug 17, 2011 7:06 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
MLBTradeRumors interviews Thad Levine
On the role of stats and the role of scouting:
My interpretation of that has changed probably more dramatically throughout my career than anything about the game of baseball. When I walked in the door in Colorado and even in Los Angeles I felt that there was a lot more questions that could be answered by doing statistical analysis than I feel today. The more you work with players and the more you work with coaches, our products are human beings and there’s a lot of volatility when it comes to human beings. So I might even say I’ve more now on the continuum swung back toward scouting and player development. I strongly believe in the grand scheme of competitive advantages of our game it’s not a formula.
I respect all of the formulas that are out there … but I don’t think the team that comes up with the next best formula is the team that’s going to win. I think it’s the team that has the most premium talent evaluators and I think that’s the asset that is the most scarce in our game and if you as a franchise have multiple gifted talent evaluators, count yourself lucky, pay them handsomely, do whatever you can to retain them, because in my humble opinion that’s the competitive advantage in the game.
"I'll text AJM a picture of my junk if he wants to use it" by ab03 on Jul 7, 2011 9:30 PM CDT
I have a fanpost up with the entire interview.
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
Errr fanshot
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
The big reason that the stats should have such a big pull for us is not that Thad's wrong. . .
It’s that we who cover and talk about the game have limited access to those humans, and little training to turn what access we do have in to real scouting. What we do have are stats that give us very good detonations and predictions of certain things. People in front offices have no reason to stop there. People outside largely don’t have a choice.
SB Nation Dallas-Ft. Worth - Christopher Fittz is better than porn!
by philkid3 on Aug 17, 2011 5:10 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
detonation?
"I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." - Jon Daniels
by GhettoBear04 on Aug 17, 2011 6:16 PM CDT up reply actions
If mike tries to call the LA bullpen again tonight
they may not answer.
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brush her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher
I was trying to remember if the pronunciation of his first name is
Juh-Roam or Jair-uh-Mee
So, I went to wikipedia, and found out he has a Tiger Woods-esque descent:
He is of Hawaiian-Chinese-Portuguese-Spanish-Japanese-Norwegian-African-Filipino-American ancestry.
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
That is some serious cross ethnic sex going on there.
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brush her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher
There's only one rule in the Williams family
You can’t have a kid with someone of your ethnicity
It's Jeremy
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
His census form must look like a bingo card
fucking an animal
quick someone post rapedog
by MonkeyEpoxy on May 27, 2011 7:25 PM PDT
Austinnn
"Look if you want a journalist hire a UT grad. If you want a doctor you pick a Baylor grad. If you need a vet you see an Aggie grad. And if you need a pizza you call a Tech grad." -BUBacker
by Mike E on Aug 17, 2011 6:47 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
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