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ed so who wants to bet that ron washington runs him out there every day or how about this where the quote is a pitch that might hit jeff francoeur s knee and he s as likely to swing at it as a pitch right down the pipe to gardner hey at least vlad will have company or you could just look at this and cry a little sorry but as bad as that loss was a walk off wild pitch after a bad cliff lee outing the news the rangers had acquired frenchy is much more upsetting to me even for arias where clearly it was a case of two teams dumping their 25th man on each other bah the more i think about it the more i come up with to be mad about this guy has been a joke on the blogs for years oh sorry bloggers what do they know these guys are real baseball professionals jd as a gm you re going to make a great minor league coordinator one day and chuck greenberg is talking about contract extensions for jd and washington i guess going 30 30 over a couple of months is something worth celebrating around here posted in uncategorized leave a comment first but worst august 18 2010 the next person i hear saying that the rangers have the biggest lead in baseball is going to get punched in the mouth i don t care if it s josh lewin the guys on the radio or someone at my office i will track them down why you ask because i m sick of hearing that it s meaningless it s a pathetic way to drum up support for the team and pretend they are better than they are it avoids all mention of anything like context or how badly the team actually is playing so here s the context yes the rangers have the biggest lead in baseball excuse me while i punch myself in the mouth now put them in any other division and guess what they wouldn t be in first place anywhere else yeah you heard me right the great rangers team playing really good ball this year and in the nl central they d be a game out of first which is the closest they d be to any of the other division leaders but so what they re in the al west and the reason they have such a big lead is that the rest of the al west sucks not because of the rangers if any of the other teams were able to put together a run they might be able to give the rangers some serious competition but even though the rangers have gone 3 7 in the last ten the angels have only gone 5 5 so they pick up two games woohoo keep doing that and they might be able to squeeze by the rangers by the end but they won t as my last post said and i don t believe the rangers will go 3 7 the rest of the way either maybe 5 5 anyway so what if they do have the biggest lead doesn t matter if you win by one game or a hundred except for the ability to rest people for the playoffs i m about 99 sure the rangers are going to get into the playoffs obviously they ll be the division winners since they re currently 6 5 games out of the wildcard after being humiliated in tampa speaking of tampa you know the difference between texas and florida after the game today the rays were hosting a senior citizen s prom complete with king and queen yep that s florida where people go to die now let s assume the races are settled in the al minnesota has a 5 game lead in the central and the yanks and rays are 5 5 ahead of boston it s possible someone will cough up one of those leads in the final month and a half but if you were a betting man you wouldn t get very good odds on it one of the yanks or rays will win the east the other will be the wildcard given that the wildcard cannot play the team from their division in the first round of the playoffs that means they re guaranteed to play the twins and rangers whichever team wins the east will host the rangers since the rangers have an inferior record to the twins does it matter which is which do you think the rangers will have much success going to either yankee stadium or tampa in the first round no they won t i can t even see it happening with cliff lee on the mound unless he has some kind of magic playoff mojo he can t get any support here plus he s suddenly become mortal over the last couple of games and yeah if you think he s re signing with the rangers i have one of those famous bridges to sell you he ll say all the right things but the look on his face in the dugout the other night should be all you need to see a zillion yankee dollars is what s going to get him so here s my prediction and it s a bad one the rangers will probably win their second ever playoff game but they still won t win their first ever playoff series finally a little more food for thought since the eleven game win streak back in june the rangers are now below 500 at 23 24 just a week short of two months where they haven t even won as many as they lost thank you angels for being so bad at the same time posted in uncategorized leave a comment print those playoff tickets already will ya august 11 2010 if you re an optimistic rangers fan stop reading right now this means you jamey newberg okay now that they ve stopped reading here s what i have to say the rangers are not as good as you think they are i ve been listening to a lot of sports talk radio lately and hearing folks jumping on the bandwagon every so often they ll have the pessimists like me call and say that they don t believe because of the team s history of collapsing in the last few days they were even asking if people were ready to start pressing the panic button of course you beat the yankees last night and lead in the 8th inning as i write tonight and everything s all right with the world again short term memories for a lot of people either that or they re the kind of people who say they don t believe in global warming because there was a bit of snow where they live now my reason for not believing is not because of the rangers history of discovering that their pitchers were just having a career year hello mr feldman i disbelieve because of the way the current season has gone the folks jumping in to root for the rangers although welcome are only doing so because they see the rangers climbing into a double digit lead biggest in baseball as we are reminded ad nauseum as though the poor performances of the rest of the division are something to be proud of but people haven t noticed one thing the rangers are not building this lead it s actually the angels who are doing it and the a s i guess although i really don t care about them now what do i mean by that take a look at the rangers record remember way back when in june to be precise they had an 11 game win streak against those nl powerhouses of milwaukee florida houston and pittsburgh what do you think they ve done since then they ve gone 21 19 that s right in a month and a half they re barely above 500 why has their lead gone up since then because the angels have been even worse 17 23 to drop four games in that time take out that 11 game streak or even just make it a more normal 6 5 instead of 11 0 and the rangers are stumbling in first by only 3 or 4 games here s a chart of the way the teams in the al west have gone this season i made this over the weekend so it s a couple of games out of date you can visually see the 11 game win streak and how the rangers have been losing just as much as winning since then so ask yourself this question the big question for rangers fans are the rangers capable of winning the division can they really hang on which is more likely that the rangers can step it up a notch or that the angels will suddenly find themselves if you believe that the angels are more talented than their record and you might not since their loss of guys like vlad from the last few years of dominance you might expect them to be able to swing back into winning ways more easily than the rangers one way of looking at things is to look at the last few years with another chart this would be the winning percentage of the angels and rangers this year dark colors and the last three years 07 09 combined light colors interesting the way they track each other this year as the rangers went up so did the angels as the rangers went down so did the angels minor interruption feliz just blew the save he pitched two innings last night and i said to myself there s no way he s available tonight guess ron washington knows more than i do the rangers have followed the same pattern all four years starting slow despite everyone saying how good washington is at having people prepared getting good for a while this is where people usually start jumping on the bandwagon then fading down the stretch the angels have been similar although they tend to peak a little later and all in all are better on average every month in the past three years so looking at this what is the outlook for the rangers this year as the old saying goes if the rangers only go 500 the rest of the way the angels would have to go about 33 14 close enough to 700 ball that puts the rangers in a pretty good position can you see the angels playing 700 the rest of the way look at the last three years the angels haven t even managed to go 600 in august and september my guess is they will right their ship a little and they will go 600 while the rangers continue to stumble along at 500 if that happens the rangers will end up with about a five game lead at the end which is a good enough cushion although if it comes down to that final week against the angels and they re at five or closer the rangers might just be in position for an epic collapse and there goes the loss dammit now when we get to the playoffs it s a different matter everyone knows don t they that the playoffs are a crapshoot you roll the dice and hope for the best in our case we hope for cliff lee to be just about perfect because the cast of thousands behind him might not be enough which of the guys in the rotation do you bet on in the playoffs colby he s having a really good year and he might be good enough not really tested in the big pressure cooker of the playoffs though i think i would trust him though cj do you know that with the next out he gets he will have matched the combined total of his previous two highest innings pitched seasons yeah he s at 141 innings next best for his career is 73 if that doesn t worry you nothing will way back in april i was doubting that he could last a full season as a starter and then i cringed as washington sent him out time and time again to throw 100 pitches in six innings i m amazed that he s gone as far as he has every outing i expect his arm to fall off tommy hunter love the guy i think he ll be a great pitcher in a few years now though going into the playoffs maybe he can do it maybe he hasn t learned how to lose yet we can hope so you ve got two likely s in lee and lewis and two maybes in cj and hunter a lot of teams have ridden two horses all the way through the playoffs so there s no reason the rangers can t assuming they can hit that is and that s not a good assumption right now they are sorely missing kinsler who every time he is out injured is supposed to be back in just a few days and ends up being gone for a few months the guys they re putting on second just aren t doing the job cristian guzman was a panic trade because the kinsler injury happened a few days before the deadline and they thought they needed to do something he hasn t shown anything with the bat or in the field since he came over seriously i think blanco would be a better option at least he gives something when he s fielding and i never thought i d say that blanco would be a better option than anyone in fact it doesn t really matter which one you choose guzman blanco or arias if he ever comes back from his conveniently timed injury they re all much of a muchness looking at the other trades cantu and molina haven t shown much either yet of course they weren t expected to based on their career numbers i think all of the trades lee excepted were just done to make the team look like it was doing something they weren t really upgrades were they unless you say upgrades over chris davis which pretty much anything would be point is the way things were going there wasn t much the rangers could do to mess up the season they re very likely to make the playoffs and most of those guys will have little to do in october other than ride the bench i guess the good part is that most of them won t be around in the next few years when things might really get interesting around here the bad part is that cliff lee won t be around either i ve said it before but i ll say it again i write these posts in my head every day just wish i could get round to writing them on the computer i have the greatest respect for jamey and the prodigious output he has had over the last decade posted in uncategorized leave a comment jd talks trash about the rangers june 24 2009 i d say it s time for a fisking but i m not going into that much detail just a few thoughts on an article on the rangers site today the title is daniels says texas could add to pen that should tell you a lot in fact the opening quote is it s more likely that he ll be able to improve his ballclub by adding bullpen help than in any other area now you may be right i may be crazy but it just may be a lot of things we re looking for but one of them is not bullpen help why you ask if i could be bothered digging out the study i m thinking of my guess is it s either in the book or on the book blog about the smartest baseball site around it shows that the worst position to trade for during a season is the bullpen these guys don t pitch much and when they do they re prone to great variation you re just as likely to pick up good bullpen help by picking random player x from aaa as you are in a trade and you don t even have to give up something to get it if the rangers have anywhere to improve it s the rotation millwood is pitching lights out because he s got a contract to play for and feldman has been more than holding his own seriously all those scouts who talk about a game face they never looked at feldman and said no thanks at least one of his parents must have been a frog but the rest i mean the other seven guys who ve started a game for the rangers next year they ve been below average padilla mccarthy sucky harrison holland or roster filler the rest mathis is doing well in aaa but couldn t make the leap feliz is staying down a while longer and the rest aren t anywhere near the thoughts of contention in 2010 rapidly fade when you think that maybe holland and feliz will be here with less than a year s experience and the rest of the touted pitchers are still far away so yeah if they want to contend in 09 they need a starter but then jd says the club s need for starting pitching is not as dire as it s being made out to be nationally uhh right you go into a season with basically the same staff as last year a year when they trailed the world in pitching and imagine they re going to be great this time around that may thing where they pitched surprisingly well for a month before slumping again 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