Thursday, May 29, 2014
OK, Redoubling Efforts
Or, am I just doubling at this point? What is double nothing besides nothing anyway?
Catching the Rangers at the Twins this afternoon. First game since opening day I've made an effort to watch or listen to. It's just been a really busy year so far with buying a new house and having work done on it and the old house.
At this point, the Rangers are pretty much where they started the season at. 27-26. 5 games behind Oakland. Not awesome but nothing to panic about. The state of the team is... injuries.
Prince Fielder: Out for the season. Spinal surgery a couple days ago. I just ate lunch so I am not going to read any opinion pieces about that yet. Sounds like he was dealing with a lot of pain.
Martín Pérez: Eight starts, two complete games, one Tommy John surgery. Gone for season.
Jurickson Profar: Torn shoulder just re-aggravated while sleeping. Probably out for season.
Geovany Soto: Still hasn't played from knee surgery for Spring Training injury. Maybe end of June.
Derek Holland: Yet to appear this season as he recovers from knee surgery.
Good news?
Yu Darvish has missed a couple starts but has been awesome. Rookie Nick Martinez seems to be doing ok but maybe the league is catching up to him, like today. An 18/15 K:BB ratio isn't awesome despite that low ERA. The rest of the current rotation: Robbie Ross Jr., Colby Lewis, and Scott Baker are getting beat pretty hard.
Seems like the team is going to be relying on a lot of luck. Like today the 3-2 difference in the Rangers' favor is because with the bases loaded and two strikes, Shin-Soo Choo lined a double to score three. When the Twins had the same situation, they lined into a double-play. Clutch Defense 3!
Mitch Moreland's been doing his Mitch Moreland adequacy thing at 1B. Someone named Rougned Odor has been playing 2B along with Donnie Murphy and Luis Sardinas. None of those make me happy or distinguish themselves from one another.
Ron Washington has been running a lot. So, we're leading the lead in Caught Stealings with 23 and sixth in Steals with 39. Ugh. Then again the Brewers have an even worse ratio plus leading the lead in sacrifices and they're killing it. Well... let's have at it.
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Catching the Rangers at the Twins this afternoon. First game since opening day I've made an effort to watch or listen to. It's just been a really busy year so far with buying a new house and having work done on it and the old house.
At this point, the Rangers are pretty much where they started the season at. 27-26. 5 games behind Oakland. Not awesome but nothing to panic about. The state of the team is... injuries.
Prince Fielder: Out for the season. Spinal surgery a couple days ago. I just ate lunch so I am not going to read any opinion pieces about that yet. Sounds like he was dealing with a lot of pain.
Martín Pérez: Eight starts, two complete games, one Tommy John surgery. Gone for season.
Jurickson Profar: Torn shoulder just re-aggravated while sleeping. Probably out for season.
Geovany Soto: Still hasn't played from knee surgery for Spring Training injury. Maybe end of June.
Derek Holland: Yet to appear this season as he recovers from knee surgery.
Good news?
Yu Darvish has missed a couple starts but has been awesome. Rookie Nick Martinez seems to be doing ok but maybe the league is catching up to him, like today. An 18/15 K:BB ratio isn't awesome despite that low ERA. The rest of the current rotation: Robbie Ross Jr., Colby Lewis, and Scott Baker are getting beat pretty hard.
Seems like the team is going to be relying on a lot of luck. Like today the 3-2 difference in the Rangers' favor is because with the bases loaded and two strikes, Shin-Soo Choo lined a double to score three. When the Twins had the same situation, they lined into a double-play. Clutch Defense 3!
Mitch Moreland's been doing his Mitch Moreland adequacy thing at 1B. Someone named Rougned Odor has been playing 2B along with Donnie Murphy and Luis Sardinas. None of those make me happy or distinguish themselves from one another.
Ron Washington has been running a lot. So, we're leading the lead in Caught Stealings with 23 and sixth in Steals with 39. Ugh. Then again the Brewers have an even worse ratio plus leading the lead in sacrifices and they're killing it. Well... let's have at it.
