Darvish apparently out for the rest of the season, some sort of elbow injury.
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Yowzers... year 1 of 6, and this was supposed to be one if the good seasons...
As much as some of these guys stuck for the Rangers... we can dump them at any time...
As much as some of these guys stuck for the Rangers... we can dump them at any time...
I'll give JD this - he made a mistake on Fielder, but he's been damn good in knowing when his own big $ guys are used up.
They were just discussing Rickey Henderson. He may have actually been a little underrated while he was playing since OBP was less valued at the time. He's 19th all-time in WAR. Career OBP over .400 despite playing until he was 44 while stealing a ton of bases and slugging quite a bit.
Friggin a's
Davis.....it's comical
Why doesn't Davis get the Bonds treatment from us? It's gotten to a point that our pitchers just look stupid giving him anything to hit.
Sad to hear about Darvish.
Yu, Hamilton and Beltre are the 3 Rangers players I enjoy(ed) watching play the most.
Yu, Hamilton and Beltre are the 3 Rangers players I enjoy(ed) watching play the most.
free_mhayden said:
Sad to hear about Darvish.
Yu, Hamilton and Beltre are the 3 Rangers players I enjoy(ed) watching play the most.
I agree. Hopefully he can get it back together. I know some say he could be an ass in person, but on the field when he had it going, he had a good competitive fire and would get animated after big strikeouts. Always seemed like he enjoyed his time here.
Rossko said:
Why doesn't Davis get the Bonds treatment from us? It's gotten to a point that our pitchers just look stupid giving him anything to hit.
We can start this next season, this year is a tank year
FYI... today is an afternoon game. Believe it is one of those Facebook only games.
TEXAS RANGERS TO OPEN 2019 SEASON WITH CHICAGO CUBS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 28
Rangers will also host Arizona, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis in interleague play;
Red Sox and Yankees to be featured in final homestand ever at Globe Life Park
Arlington, Texas The Texas Rangers will host the Chicago Cubs in the club's 2019 season opener on Thursday, March 28 to begin the team's final year at Globe Life Park in Arlington. The complete 2019 schedule was announced today by Major League Baseball.
This will mark the 28th time in 48 seasons that the Rangers have opened at home, the fourth straight and the ninth occasion in the last 11 years. It will be the first time Texas has opened with the Cubs and it will be Chicago's first trip to Arlington since May 21-23, 2010. This will mark the second time that Texas has opened the year against a National League team as the Rangers hosted Philadelphia in the first series of 2014 at Globe Life Park.
March 28 is scheduled to be the earliest date on which the Rangers have ever opened a season with the previous earliest being March 29, 2017 vs. Houston in Arlington.
The Rangers will also host the Cubs on Saturday and Sunday, March 30-31 before completing the season's first homestand with Houston, April 1-3. The road portion of the schedule begins with a six-game trip to the Los Angeles Angels, April 4-7 and Arizona, April 9-10.
Texas will close the regular season at Globe Life Park with the final homestand ever played in the Rangers' home since 1994 featuring three games each with Boston, September 24-26, and the New York Yankees, September 27-29.
With 15 teams in each league, interleague play will take place throughout the entire regular season for the seventh straight year. Clubs will again play 19 games against division opponents (76 total games) and either six or seven contests vs. non-divisional league opponents in home and home series (66 total games). Each club will also play 20 interleague games (10 home/10 road), with the Rangers facing the five N.L. Central clubs and Arizona in 2019.
Texas will play 19 times each versus A.L. West Division foes Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Seattle. In addition to hosting the Cubs in interleague play, the Rangers will have two-game home and home series with both the Arizona and Pittsburgh and a three-game home set with St. Louis. It will be just the second time the Cardinals have ever played a regular season series in Arlington, the other June 11-13, 2004. The Rangers hosted St. Louis in Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2011 World Series. Texas rounds out its interleague schedule by traveling to Cincinnati and Milwaukee for three-game series.
The 2019 home schedule also features four-game series with the Cleveland, Kansas City, and Minnesota. Texas will be at home on Independence Day, Thursday, July 4 against the Los Angeles Angels.
Game times for the 2019 schedule will be announced at a later date. The complete schedule is attached.
2019 TEXAS RANGERS OPPONENTS
Home Road Home Road
Baltimore Orioles 3 4 Oakland A's 9 10
Boston Red Sox 3 4 Seattle Mariners 9 10
Chicago White Sox 3 4 Tampa Bay Rays 3 3
Cleveland Indians 4 3 Toronto Blue Jays 3 3
Detroit Tigers 3 3 Arizona Diamondbacks2 2
Houston Astros 10 9 Chicago Cubs 3 0
Kansas City Royals 4 3 Cincinnati Reds 0 3
Los Angeles Angels 10 9 Milwaukee Brewers 0 3
Minnesota Twins 4 3 Pittsburgh Pirates 2 2
New York Yankees 3 3 St. Louis Cardinals 3 0
RANGERS
Rangers will also host Arizona, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis in interleague play;
Red Sox and Yankees to be featured in final homestand ever at Globe Life Park
Arlington, Texas The Texas Rangers will host the Chicago Cubs in the club's 2019 season opener on Thursday, March 28 to begin the team's final year at Globe Life Park in Arlington. The complete 2019 schedule was announced today by Major League Baseball.
This will mark the 28th time in 48 seasons that the Rangers have opened at home, the fourth straight and the ninth occasion in the last 11 years. It will be the first time Texas has opened with the Cubs and it will be Chicago's first trip to Arlington since May 21-23, 2010. This will mark the second time that Texas has opened the year against a National League team as the Rangers hosted Philadelphia in the first series of 2014 at Globe Life Park.
March 28 is scheduled to be the earliest date on which the Rangers have ever opened a season with the previous earliest being March 29, 2017 vs. Houston in Arlington.
The Rangers will also host the Cubs on Saturday and Sunday, March 30-31 before completing the season's first homestand with Houston, April 1-3. The road portion of the schedule begins with a six-game trip to the Los Angeles Angels, April 4-7 and Arizona, April 9-10.
Texas will close the regular season at Globe Life Park with the final homestand ever played in the Rangers' home since 1994 featuring three games each with Boston, September 24-26, and the New York Yankees, September 27-29.
With 15 teams in each league, interleague play will take place throughout the entire regular season for the seventh straight year. Clubs will again play 19 games against division opponents (76 total games) and either six or seven contests vs. non-divisional league opponents in home and home series (66 total games). Each club will also play 20 interleague games (10 home/10 road), with the Rangers facing the five N.L. Central clubs and Arizona in 2019.
Texas will play 19 times each versus A.L. West Division foes Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Seattle. In addition to hosting the Cubs in interleague play, the Rangers will have two-game home and home series with both the Arizona and Pittsburgh and a three-game home set with St. Louis. It will be just the second time the Cardinals have ever played a regular season series in Arlington, the other June 11-13, 2004. The Rangers hosted St. Louis in Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2011 World Series. Texas rounds out its interleague schedule by traveling to Cincinnati and Milwaukee for three-game series.
The 2019 home schedule also features four-game series with the Cleveland, Kansas City, and Minnesota. Texas will be at home on Independence Day, Thursday, July 4 against the Los Angeles Angels.
Game times for the 2019 schedule will be announced at a later date. The complete schedule is attached.
2019 TEXAS RANGERS OPPONENTS
Home Road Home Road
Baltimore Orioles 3 4 Oakland A's 9 10
Boston Red Sox 3 4 Seattle Mariners 9 10
Chicago White Sox 3 4 Tampa Bay Rays 3 3
Cleveland Indians 4 3 Toronto Blue Jays 3 3
Detroit Tigers 3 3 Arizona Diamondbacks2 2
Houston Astros 10 9 Chicago Cubs 3 0
Kansas City Royals 4 3 Cincinnati Reds 0 3
Los Angeles Angels 10 9 Milwaukee Brewers 0 3
Minnesota Twins 4 3 Pittsburgh Pirates 2 2
New York Yankees 3 3 St. Louis Cardinals 3 0
RANGERS
Should have taken the over. I think that's 27 HR in 51 games.94chem said:O/U on Davis HR's in a 3 game series against Texas is 1.5 (25 HR in 49 career games). I'll take the under (might as well be optimistic, right?).DallasAg 94 said:As long as Khris Davis is in the lineup.KT 90 said:That would be against the rules. But nothing illegal about pitching Tocci tonightDallasAg 94 said:
Too soon for Sept Call-ups?!
I'm setting the O/U on Ranger runs tonight at 0.5. Gonna take the over this time...
Regarding next year's schedule, and this is something that I have been thinking about for a while but, does anyone really care about interleague play anymore? Personally I am over it. The idea was great 20 years ago but I would rather play our division or intraleague games. The schedule is so off-balance and it really makes no sense. We play two games against Arizona next year. Is anyone clamoring for that matchup? I say that, but on the other hand,I would like to go opening weekend only because a good friend is a Cubs fan and I'd like to catch a game with him.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
I think you answered your own question.
You want series against the Cubs, Cardinals, Dodgers, etc...?
Then you have to have series with the DBacks, Padres, Brewers, etc...
You want series against the Cubs, Cardinals, Dodgers, etc...?
Then you have to have series with the DBacks, Padres, Brewers, etc...
It's also the only way the Dodgers/Angels, Cubs/White Sox, Mets/Yankees, etc play each other. The league forcing the Astros into the AL kinda lessened the importance of that for us but I doubt they'd want to lose that.
Well, didn't have to sweat it very long94chem said:
I'm setting the O/U on Ranger runs tonight at 0.5. Gonna take the over this time...
MSFC Aggie said:Well, didn't have to sweat it very long94chem said:
I'm setting the O/U on Ranger runs tonight at 0.5. Gonna take the over this time...
Rangers up 2-0. Somebody needs to remind Banister that we are supposed to be tanking this game
Minor looking good thus far on the mound.
I want the Rangers to win every game except against the A's.
If your child grows up to be a Liberal, you've failed as a parent.
Well, Davis hasn't hit his dinger yet....so there's still hope
Street_Cred_Norm said:
I want the Rangers to win every game except against the A's.
And the Mariners as long as it hurts the Lastros.
Rangers playing the A's always make me think of Frankie Francisco throwing a chair and, sadly, what at the time probably went down as one of the Top 10 biggest wins in franchise history in regards to postseason or potential postseason play:
I can't find the broadcast video (it used to be on Vimeo long ago), but Lewin's call was great.
I can't find the broadcast video (it used to be on Vimeo long ago), but Lewin's call was great.
Since a couple people posted nostalgic moments I started looking back and found two of my favorites
2008 K-Rod was going for the single season saves record and Josh walked him off in Arlington. A couple days later he went on to have the greatest HR derby of all time
From August of that same year the team was finally in a playoff hunt and Marlon Byrd hit a walkoff grandslam against the Yankees.
Such happy memories looking back and seeing the building blocks of what was to come. I remember watching them live with my dad while we went nuts in the living room. Amazing how things like that stick with you. Also I would do anything to get the vest jerseys back again.
2008 K-Rod was going for the single season saves record and Josh walked him off in Arlington. A couple days later he went on to have the greatest HR derby of all time
From August of that same year the team was finally in a playoff hunt and Marlon Byrd hit a walkoff grandslam against the Yankees.
Such happy memories looking back and seeing the building blocks of what was to come. I remember watching them live with my dad while we went nuts in the living room. Amazing how things like that stick with you. Also I would do anything to get the vest jerseys back again.
free_mhayden said:
I think you answered your own question.
You want series against the Cubs, Cardinals, Dodgers, etc...?
Then you have to have series with the DBacks, Padres, Brewers, etc...
76 divisional games is what I hate.
To do away with interleague play they are going to have to move a team to the other league or expand to 32 teams otherwise you'll have one team in each league idle for several days throughout the season. They are not going to shift a team to a different league so soon after forcing the Astros into the AL and in my opinion expanding before all the current teams are on relatively solid footing is a bad idea. Anyways interleague play is not the cause of the excessive number divisional games. IMO drop the number of games games against divisional foes from 19 to 14, play ten games each against the rest of the league which leaves 16 interleague games. IMO the teams in each division should also have the same interleague foes, so do away with the stupid rival BS. It works Cubs/ChiSox, NYY/NYM. LAD/LAA, SF/Oak, not so much for the rest.Fuzzy Dunlop said:
Regarding next year's schedule, and this is something that I have been thinking about for a while but, does anyone really care about interleague play anymore? Personally I am over it. The idea was great 20 years ago but I would rather play our division or intraleague games. The schedule is so off-balance and it really makes no sense. We play two games against Arizona next year. Is anyone clamoring for that matchup? I say that, but on the other hand,I would like to go opening weekend only because a good friend is a Cubs fan and I'd like to catch a game with him.
Thoughts?
18 games in division x4 = 72
6 games against other divisions = 60
6 games against an NL division = 30
Total = 162.
You basically do interleague like the NFL, where everybody in your division has the same interleague schedule. Add another wild card play in game between the 5 & 6 seeds to allow for unbalanced divisions. Adds incentive to be the first wild card.
Or...get rid of ILP, and...
13 games in division = 52
11 games against everyone else = 110
Or...
18 games in division = 72
9 games against everyone else = 90
6 games against other divisions = 60
6 games against an NL division = 30
Total = 162.
You basically do interleague like the NFL, where everybody in your division has the same interleague schedule. Add another wild card play in game between the 5 & 6 seeds to allow for unbalanced divisions. Adds incentive to be the first wild card.
Or...get rid of ILP, and...
13 games in division = 52
11 games against everyone else = 110
Or...
18 games in division = 72
9 games against everyone else = 90
PWestAg18 said:
Since a couple people posted nostalgic moments I started looking back and found two of my favorites
2008 K-Rod was going for the single season saves record and Josh walked him off in Arlington. A couple days later he went on to have the greatest HR derby of all time
From August of that same year the team was finally in a playoff hunt and Marlon Byrd hit a walkoff grandslam against the Yankees.
Such happy memories looking back and seeing the building blocks of what was to come. I remember watching them live with my dad while we went nuts in the living room. Amazing how things like that stick with you. Also I would do anything to get the vest jerseys back again.
I guess my all-time favourite was striking out A-Rod and thinking how I had been a fan literally since before birth, in utero at the first game ever, and realizing that it really had happened. Like when Johnny beat Bama, only better, cause you know, baseball.
I was at both of those games. I haven't been able to go anywhere near as much since the year we lost to the Cardinals. I'll look into getting season tickets again when I live closer.PWestAg18 said:
Since a couple people posted nostalgic moments I started looking back and found two of my favorites
2008 K-Rod was going for the single season saves record and Josh walked him off in Arlington. A couple days later he went on to have the greatest HR derby of all time
From August of that same year the team was finally in a playoff hunt and Marlon Byrd hit a walkoff grandslam against the Yankees.
Such happy memories looking back and seeing the building blocks of what was to come. I remember watching them live with my dad while we went nuts in the living room. Amazing how things like that stick with you. Also I would do anything to get the vest jerseys back again.
A-Rod being the last out of that series was poetic justice
Update on some younger arms from the farm:
Quote:
Joe Palumbo made his AA debut last night, pitching for the Frisco Roughriders against the San Antonio Ballapenos (or whatever San Antonio's team name is I just associate them with Ballapeno), and things went quite well for the lefty in his first taste of Texas League action.Palumbo logged 5 innings, struck out 8 of the 19 batters he faced, and allowed 1 run on 3 hits and 1 walk. Its the type of effort that has you understanding why Tepid is so enthusiastic about the 23 year old Long Island native.
Perhaps most encouraging, though, is that Palumbo joins a collection of interesting starting pitchers who have stepped into the Frisco rotation during the course of the season. 21 year old righthander Jonathan Hernandez joined the Roughriders a couple of months ago, fellow 21 year old righty Edgar Arredondo followed Hernandez from Down East to Frisco in late June, and 23 year old lefty Taylor Hearn came over to Texas at the end of July in the Keone Kela trade.
Yes, each of these pitchers has areas of concern you'd like for Palumbo not to have missed a season-plus due to Tommy John surgery, for Arredondo to have better stuff, for Hernandez to have better command, Hearn to have a better third pitch and no one is penciling all four into the rotation for 2019 and beyond. However, all four pitchers are guys who have a chance to start in the majors, and Hearn, Hernandez and Palumbo all appear to be potential bullpen weapons if they can't stick in the rotation.
We have lamented, with reason, the lack of upper-level starting pitching prospects in the Rangerssystem for a while. With Palumbo, Hearn, Hernandez and Arredondo, however, the Rangers have a quartet of arms who could be in the mix to be in the majors at some point in 2019, and who give you reason to hope for some home grown starting pitching successes in the not-too-distant future
If any of those players are in the mix for the rotation in 2019, we'll be having a much worse season that this season and what any of us could project for 2019. 
Some context about those pitchers:
AA: Frisco
Hernandez (21-RHP): 11 GS, 5.43 ERA, 1.586 WHIP, 58.0 IP, 49 SO
Palumbo (23-LHP): 1 GS, 1.80 ERA, 0.800 WHIP, 5.0 IP, 8 SO
Hearn (23-LHP): 3 GS, 6.60 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, 19.0 IP, 14 SO
Arrendondo (21-RHP): 6 GS, 5.40 ERA, 1.320 WHIP, 33.1 IP, 18 SO
By comparison
Ariel Jurado (22-AA): 16 GS, 3.28 ERA, 1.220 WHIP
Career AA: 49 GS, 3.96 ERA, 1.333 WHIP, 302.1 IP, 188 SO
YoMen (23-AA): 6 GS, 4.91 ERA, 1.303 WHIP
Career AA: 40 GS, 3.81 ERA, 1.164 WHIP, 217.1 IP, 202 SO
Richelson Pena (24-AA): 11 GS, 2.97 ERA, 1.140 WHIP
Career AA: 20 GS, 3.55 ERA, 1.190 WHIP, 142.0 IP, 115 SO.
Yo Men is likely on the 25, for 2019. Rule V.
I like many of the young SPs we have in the Org. I think Jurado, YoMen and Pena are ahead of those guys. I can probably name 3 more guys ahead of the guys at AA. Palumbo will likely be limited on IP.
Wagner, Payano, Sampson and Wes Benjamin, for example.
Some context about those pitchers:
AA: Frisco
Hernandez (21-RHP): 11 GS, 5.43 ERA, 1.586 WHIP, 58.0 IP, 49 SO
Palumbo (23-LHP): 1 GS, 1.80 ERA, 0.800 WHIP, 5.0 IP, 8 SO
Hearn (23-LHP): 3 GS, 6.60 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, 19.0 IP, 14 SO
Arrendondo (21-RHP): 6 GS, 5.40 ERA, 1.320 WHIP, 33.1 IP, 18 SO
By comparison
Ariel Jurado (22-AA): 16 GS, 3.28 ERA, 1.220 WHIP
Career AA: 49 GS, 3.96 ERA, 1.333 WHIP, 302.1 IP, 188 SO
YoMen (23-AA): 6 GS, 4.91 ERA, 1.303 WHIP
Career AA: 40 GS, 3.81 ERA, 1.164 WHIP, 217.1 IP, 202 SO
Richelson Pena (24-AA): 11 GS, 2.97 ERA, 1.140 WHIP
Career AA: 20 GS, 3.55 ERA, 1.190 WHIP, 142.0 IP, 115 SO.
Yo Men is likely on the 25, for 2019. Rule V.
I like many of the young SPs we have in the Org. I think Jurado, YoMen and Pena are ahead of those guys. I can probably name 3 more guys ahead of the guys at AA. Palumbo will likely be limited on IP.
Wagner, Payano, Sampson and Wes Benjamin, for example.
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