Bump!

Commence *****ing about late West Coast games...

Tepesch has 47 pitches through 5 innings.

Tepesch made easy work the 1st two times through the order.

Not sure if he had a focus issue, or just lost command.

Wisdom of Maddux and Wash is to know whether you let a kid like that battle through or give him the rest of the night off.

With his low pitch count, he should be pretty fresh next outing.

Say no to Cotts!

Martin

Elvis. Make it count.

I'd like to see a stat on the % of times Andrus scores when he reaches base with less than 2 outs. I'd bet it's rather high.

Whew!

I guess the hammys are doing fine

Come on, Soria. Close this puppy out.

Yay winning

Road warriors!

Angels, Mariners, Stros lose. Athletics getting throttled by the Yanks. Good night for the Rangers! Especially with Felix on the mound.

They always seem to find a way vs Felix.

Love me some Ernesto Frieri!

Wow! Calhoun with a game saving catch. Helluva game in Atlanta tonight.

Saunders catches one in the balls. Beltre's reaction was awesome.

I told my wife... with Beltre's reaction, Saunders took one in the jimmy.

Nice arm Choo....

Somebody needs to tell Rios he's our best average hitter. Swing the damn bat with RISP

Chirinos is on fire!

Helluva slide

Big out there

Not been impressed with Sardinas at short. Why is Elvis getting a 1/2 day off again?

I think Soria is back to form! Nasty stuff here lately. Back to .500 baseball!

Third Place Texas Rangers!!!!

1.5 out of the WC.

IIRC, Sardinas was given one of Wash's legendary pancake gloves to improve his D.

He is just 21... but looking at his minor league fielding percentage... there is plenty of room for improvement.

His D at 2nd has been much better than at SS.

Having said that... Odor has been very, very impressive. When Profar went down, Wash was quoted as saying that while Profar was more highly regarded, it was only that he had swagger and a sense of maturity. Wash indicated all 3 were right about the same place talent-wise.

His increased playing time could to showcase in a trade or it could be to keep him improving (not leaving him stale on the bench).

Odor is about 1 year younger than Sardinas, and it is hard to believe that at 20... Odor isn't solidifying himself as the 2B. If you can ship him at the deadline for some SP... for say Jeff Samardzija who is 29 with 1 more year of Arb... That'd REALLY help. Holland back in July and it would be time to get optimistic.

The lines at 2B:
Kinsler: .285\.317 OBP\ .758 OPS \ 6HR in 270 ABs === .996F5
32 - $16M
Odor: .286\.307 OBP\.747 OPS \ 2HR in 84 ABs === .984 F%
20 - League Minimum: ($525k?)

[This message has been edited by DallasAg 94 (edited 6/15/2014 9:28a).]

I'd much rather use Sardinas as trade bait. I like how odor carries himself and his defense seems to be better.

I can't say I know enough about either's max upside, but you are definitely correct about Odor. I love his confidence and swagger. It's the type of intangible that helps a player reach his max physical talent.

Odor seems like the type you hate as an opponent but love to have on your team. Reminds me of Pedroia.

[This message has been edited by Gigem1223 (edited 6/15/2014 1:32p).]

Poorly worded...

This statement:

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If you can ship him at the deadline for some SP..

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Was meant about shipping Sardinas, as Odor becomes entrenched at 2B for the Rangers.

Why would you even pitch to the ranger killer?

Was hoping Wash would pinch hit Odor for Murphy there and of course Murphy strikes out.

Again....why do we even pitch to him