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641st Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 03:15 am | |
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Ric wrote: agreed... but I don't see much wrong with Geise and his upside, either...
Kennedy straight up, or Geise +
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642nd Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 04:00 am | |
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yep, i'd do either/or.. you see where the Yankees just stole Nady from the Bucs?
http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/10909401
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643rd Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 04:13 am | |
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Nady blows hot and cold. They'll regret the price they paid. Marte is a good bullpen arm.
Heard this morning that the Yankees were talking to Bonds.
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644th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 04:42 am | |
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| Nady is, imho, markedly better than Richie Sexson, though...
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645th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 05:14 am | |
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| Of course he is....but they play different positions.
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646th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 05:18 am | |
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Ric wrote: Nady is, imho, markedly better than Richie Sexson, though...
Why did I think it was Nagy????
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Geise is 31 years old. He has spent the last five seasons in triple A. He has put up pretty good numbers in the minors, but he has never pitched more than 83 innings in a season. He is currently at 83 total innings pitched this season, matching the high that he posted in 2004.
I am not interested.
edited to add: Check those numbers. He did pitch 102 total innings in 2002 in two double A stops. Still not interested.
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648th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 03:02 pm | |
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I don't know Geise from adam, but may be a late bloomer. Remember, Jamie Moyer was 33 when he suddenly "found it" and for the next seven years, averaged around 17 wins a season.
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649th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 03:17 pm | |
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LEB wrote: I don't know Geise from adam, but may be a late bloomer. Remember, Jamie Moyer was 33 when he suddenly "found it" and for the next seven years, averaged around 17 wins a season.
Check those innings numbers again. Geise has never carried the workload in professional baseball at any level to suggest that you can hand him the ball every fifth day for a 162 game schedule.
The Yankees have been desperate for starting pitching this season, but they've only handed this guy the ball twice. You have to ask yourself why.
Looking again at his minor league numbers, it appears that he has never been a starter and has always averaged 1-2 innings per appearance. He has also averaged nearly a strikout per inning throughout his professional career. If you think that he can be converted to a closer or a setup guy, then maybe you consider trading for him. If you think that he is only a long man, then you have no need for him. We already have Josh Rupe.
Either way, he shouldn't be the centerpiece of any deal the Rangers make. We can do better.
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650th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 05:26 pm | |
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Burley Glen wrote: Ric wrote: Nady is, imho, markedly better than Richie Sexson, though...
Why did I think it was Nagy????
There WAS a NAGY in the Big Leagues for a long time.. Charles was it? Pitched primarily for the Tribe as I recall...
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651st Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 05:27 pm | |
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(* Trade Rumor Offerings To Chew On For Fun, Even Yuks)
Not to be confused with Cincinnati-Louisville Shuttle occupant Todd Coffey, the TROT COFFEY is a mailing list-only update on what the media has unearthed as we approach next week’s conventional trade deadline:
Lots tonight from T.R. Sullivan of MLB.com:
· At least 20 of 29 clubs have called Texas about one or more of Gerald Laird (including the Yankees and Reds), Jarrod Saltalamacchia (including the Yankees), Taylor Teagarden, and Max Ramirez. Texas wants “quality young pitching” in return. Among the New York arms the Rangers like is 25-year-old righthander Daniel McCutchen, a McKinney native who is 8-9, 3.14 in 20 AA and AAA starts this season.
· Laird finished his rehab assignment tonight, hitless in 12 at-bats. He’ll travel tomorrow and start for Texas on Sunday afternoon.
· The Giants, Twins, and Dodgers, as we’ve heard for a couple days now, have expressed “medium interest” in Hank Blalock.
· Texas might be willing to eat some of Frank Catalanotto’s remaining salary (about $1.4 million this year, $4 million in 2008, and a $2 million buyout for 2010) if the club can get something useful in return for him. The Mets are a possibility, not only on Catalanotto but Marlon Byrd and Nelson Cruz as well.
· Other teams have asked about Cruz – who hit his 35th home run tonight – but none has offered a “serviceable major league pitcher.”
· The Rangers aren’t initiating discussions on Milton Bradley, Vicente Padilla, Kevin Millwood, Eddie Guardado, or Jamey Wright, all of whom have drawn inquiries. The Diamondbacks, Rays, Cubs, and Tigers are among Bradley’s suitors.
Texas nurses a 6-5 lead in the eighth as I send this, and among the key stats of the game, as far as I’m concerned, is that Josh Hamilton got 25 hours of sleep in the 48 hours leading up to the game, according to Evan Grant.
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652nd Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 05:32 pm | |
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THE NEWBERG REPORT
Chris Davis debuted in the major leagues one month ago today. Since his arrival, these are the American League leaders in slugging percentage:
Chris Davis........694
Jhonny Peralta.....685
Grady Sizemore.....674
Justin Morneau.....632
Howie Kendrick.....627
Jermaine Dye.......625
Aubrey Huff........620
Jim Thome..........617
Carlos Quentin.....608
Evan Longoria......602
Oh, and all those concerns about whether Davis was equipped to handle left-handed pitching at this level? In 28 at-bats, he's hitting .393/.452/1.000, with four home runs, three doubles, one triple, and three singles.
The lefties Davis has taken deep are the following scrubs: Mark Buehrle, Joe Saunders, Jamie Moyer, and Alan Embree.
Josh Hamilton is the second player in Rangers history to reach 100 RBI in fewer than 99 games played. Juan Gonzalez did it three times.
No other American League hitter has more than 76 RBI.
Since July 5, when he reached 383 plate appearances, a lifetime high at any level of baseball, Hamilton is hitting .308/.361/.554 with four home runs and 18 RBI in 15 games. Is that worth keeping tabs on? I don't know.
Edinson Volquez over the last month: 2-2, 5.97 in six starts.
The box score doesn't look great, but that's less important when there are scouts in the stands. A lot of the hits Vicente Padilla gave up last night (six of seven came in the ugly third) were poorly struck, and he did retire the last nine hitters he faced.
Kevin Millwood is evidently headed back to the disabled list with a groin strain. Eric Hurley will come off the disabled list to start tomorrow.
German Duran will miss six to eight weeks after tearing a ligament in his left thumb on a slide into second base on Tuesday night. That puts him back in action sometime in September, when the RedHawks' season is likely over.
I expect we'll see him back in Arlington (rosters will have expanded by
then) to get some reps in so he can go into the winter without any uncertainty about his thumb.
Bad break for Duran, who finishes the greatest baseball year of his life as a .225/.279/.363 hitter in 102 major league at-bats, primarily playing a position he'd never played and playing it well and fearlessly, and a
.243/.288/.378 hitter in 74 AAA at-bats.
I bet Duran reminds Ron Washington of himself.
Joaquin Benoit had a forgettable return to the mound last night, making a rehab appearance for Frisco and retiring none of the five San Antonio hitters he faced. Three singled and two walked.
Righthander Joselo Diaz cleared waivers and accepted an outright assignment to Oklahoma.
The Rangers promoted lefthander Beau Jones to Frisco and lefthander Glenn Swanson to Bakersfield. Jones, widely considered the fifth of five prospects acquired in last July's Mark Teixeira trade, had a 2.93 ERA with Bakersfield this year, but the bigger story is what he did after a shift from the Blaze rotation to the bullpen in early June. The 21-year-old Jones (who I pegged in June as the system's top left-handed reliever prospect in my "In Their Footsteps" column for MLB.com: http://tinyurl.com/6js34w) has a
1.11 ERA as a reliever this season, with 29 strikeouts, 10 unintentional walks, no home runs, a .202 opponents' batting average, and a 1.22 groundout-to-flyout rate in 24.1 innings.
Swanson was in the midst of a Derek Holland-esque breakthrough in 2007 before succumbing to Tommy John surgery 13 months ago. He gave up two runs on eight hits and no walks in four innings last night for the Blaze, striking out seven, after surrendering three earned runs on 11 hits and two walks (with 15 strikeouts) in 20 rehab innings for the Arizona League squad and Spokane.
Teams on which third baseman-outfielder Fernando Tatis and righthander Brandon Knight have been teammates:
* the 1995 Charleston RiverDogs (Low A)
* the 1996 Charlotte Rangers (High A)
* the 1997 Tulsa Drillers (AA)
* the 2008 New Orleans Zephyrs (AAA)
* the 2008 New York Mets (NL)
The 32-year-old Knight, taken by Texas in the 14th round in 1996, was 5-1, 1.60 in five AAA starts and six relief appearances this summer, holding opponents to a .172 batting average with 49 strikeouts and 10 walks in 39.1 innings.
Another southpaw reliever and another outfielder moved yesterday (Damaso Marte and Xavier Nady from Pittsburgh to the Yankees). It's good for those teams who have their own southpaw relievers and outfielders available to trade every time others come off the board, especially this far out from Thursday's deadline.
Another good thing for teams considering trading veterans is that the Yankees have won seven straight, cutting their six-game deficit in the East in half. Not only are they unquestionably back in as buyers now, but their surge and the Marte-Nady acquisitions also turn the temperature up on Boston and Tampa Bay to do something.
Mets prospect Fernando Martinez reinjured a hamstring in his AA game yesterday, which presumably increases the odds that New York trades for an outfielder.
The Mets reportedly want Jason Bay, Raul Ibanez, or Casey Blake, but do they really have enough firepower to go in one of those directions without compromising their big league roster?
Arizona League lefthander Geuris Grullon has a 2.79 ERA in 9.2 relief innings, but here's the crazy part: his groundout-to-flyout rate is 8.00.
Anything over 2.00 is notable, anything over 4.00 is elite. The 6'5"
18-year-old posted a 2.64 rate last season in the same league. In 30.2 pro innings, he has yet to surrender a home run.
Rusty Greer is joining the Texas Wesleyan coaching staff.
Rudy Jaramillo had left knee surgery yesterday and won't return to the dugout full-time until September. Minor league hitting coordinator Mike Boulanger will continue to fill in as Jaramillo's replacement.
Speaking of Rudy: Gary Matthews Jr. is hitting .182/.267/.234 since June 13 and is no longer a starting major league outfielder. He's making $9 million this year, will make $10 million in 2009, will make $11 million in 2010, and will make $12 million in 2011.
The Rangers acquired high school righthanders Michael Main and Neil Ramirez for the loss of Matthews.
Read this:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/080721&sportCat=mlb
Laura Purcell, curator of the Sports Museum of America in New York City, has extended Newberg Report readers the following offer: if you go to http://www.sportsmuseum.com and use the code SMA80, you will get a $5 coupon to use towards admission to the museum. You can also call 888-SMA-TKTS and mention code SMA80 to get the discount.
No TV for the Rangers this afternoon. Join Eric and Victor for the radio call at 3:00, as Texas tries to bolster Oakland's hold on third place.
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653rd Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 05:41 pm | |
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Per the DMN’s Evan Grant, German Duran will probably miss the rest of the season after having surgery to repair a torn ligament in his thumb. Bah.
Joaquin Benoit’s night in Frisco: single, wild pitch, single, single, walk, walk, done.
Stars of the Day:
Oklahoma: Joselo Diaz / Nelson Cruz, Nate Gold. Ryan Roberts
Frisco: Thomas Diamond, Brandon Puffer / Jose Vallejo, Steve Murphy
Bakersfield: Glenn Swanson, Josh Giles / Renny Osuna, Ian Gac, John Whittleman
Clinton: Matt Lawson
Spokane: Jared Bolden, Dennis Guinn
AAA: Oklahoma 6, at Salt Lake 13
Loss: Ballard (1-1, 12.38)
Back in May, Mike Ballard took his one serious beating in AA (2.2 IP, 10 R) at the hands of the Astros’ affiliate. On Friday in Salt Lake, Ballard relived that day : two innings, ten hits, nine runs. Recently outrighted Joselo Diaz staunched the bleeding with a couple of scoreless innings.
Nelson Cruz singled and clubbed his 35th homer. Nate Gold also homered and made the most of his four days in one of the PCL’s hitter havens: 7-17, three dingers, six RBI. Ryan Roberts doubled and tripled.
AA: at Frisco 6, San Antonio 3
Win: Diamond (3-2, 5.91)
Thomas Diamond walked four in five innings but also struck out four and allowed only one run. Brandon Puffer replaced Benoit in the 7th and prevented additional runs with two strikeouts and a fly out.
Steve Murphy (.274/.324/.513) hit a 3rd-ining grand slam and doubled. Jose Vallejo was 2-3 with a walk.
Beau Jones, acquired as then-injured Matt Harrison’s insurance policy in the Mark Teixeira deal, has been promoted to AA. Jones endured a miserable introduction to high-A last year while with Atlanta, then pitched well in low-A Clinton after the trade. The year, he struggled again as a starter in Bakersfield. Since some time off and conversion to relief, Jones has struck out 29 of the 100 batters he’s faced while posting a 1.11 ERA in 24.1 innings. The entire haul from that trade is now in Double-A or the Majors. Atlanta is 48-53.
High-A: Bakersfield 4, at Stockton 5 (11 innings)
Loss: Stewart (5-4, 4.01)
13 months and a day after his last high-A start, Glenn Swanson returned to Bakersfield and allowed two runs in four innings. He fanned seven and walked none. Josh Giles (4.06 ERA) sometimes struggles with his control but had a monster outing on Friday, striking out six and permitting just a hit in three innings.
Ian Gac (.299/.379/.496 in high-A) belted a three-run homer in the 5th. Renny Osuna (.372/.433/.438) walked twice and doubled, and John Whittleman (.249/.364/.382) was 2-3 with two walks.
Low-A: Clinton 3, at Great Lakes 7
Loss: Tatusko (2-7, 4.44)
The first four batters reached against Ryan Tatusko and three would score. Tatusko allowed one run over the next four innings. He struck out the side in order in the 5th.
Catching for the second time this season, Cristian Santana had a busy 1st. Soon after dropping a pop foul that announcer Dave Lezotte indicated was probably catch able, he fired a dropped third strike into right field. RF Kyle Murphy retrieved the ball and brought it home to Santana in time to tag out a runner attempting to score from second. After another inning, Carlos Dominguez replaced him. It wasn’t immediately apparent whether Santana’s departure was related to that 1st inning, an injury, or Door #3.
2B Matt Lawson walked twice and singled. Jose Felix was 1-4 while making his second career appearance at third base. Felix handled the one grounder hit to him.
Short-A: Spokane 3, at Everett 4
Loss: Bleier (3-2, 2.70)
Spokane stranded five runners in the last two innings in a tough defeat. In the 9th, the Indians loaded the bases on a strikeout by Kyle Higgins (who reached when the ball got away), a David Paisano HBP, and an intentional walk to Jared Bolden after Jason Ogata laid down a sac bunt. Alas, Justin Pickett and Matt West struck out. Bolden was 3-4 with a double. Dennis Guinn walked and hit a two-run double in the 8th.
Lefty Richard Bleier allowed three runs in five innings. He walked one and hit three. Bleier’s Run Average is an ordinary 4.41, but he’s allowed fewer than a base runner per inning. Some exceptionally strong hitting by his opponents with runners in scoring position is hurting him. There’s no good reason for him to have a .165 opposing average with the bases empty and a .379 average in “RISP” situations. He’s having a solid debut.
In two innings, Ryan Schlact (1.93 ERA) walked three and struck out four of the 11 batters he faced. Let us play, said his defense.
At the season’s halfway point, Spokane leads the Northwest League in wins (28), runs scored (6.2 per game), and runs allowed (4.2).
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654th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 06:49 pm | |
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Ric wrote: Burley Glen wrote: Ric wrote: Nady is, imho, markedly better than Richie Sexson, though...
Why did I think it was Nagy????
There WAS a NAGY in the Big Leagues for a long time.. Charles was it? Pitched primarily for the Tribe as I recall...
Yeah, that was it...I'm such a goober head...
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655th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 06:54 pm | |
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Ric wrote: THE NEWBERG REPORT
Rusty Greer is joining the Texas Wesleyan coaching staff.
Maybe I'll get to finally meet one of my favorite former players!!!!!
Mike Jeffcoat has done a pretty good job with that team...Makes me proud to be a Ram, class of 1985...
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656th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 06:57 pm | |
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| cool...
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657th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 06:58 pm | |
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| He prolly had many AB's against Charles Nagy, too.... :):)
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658th Post Sat Jul 26th, 2008 10:16 pm | |
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The Rangers have placed righthander Kevin Millwood on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 24, with a right groin strain. His spot on the active roster has been taken by catcher Gerald Laird, who was activated from the DL.
With Laird's return, expect catcher Max Ramirez to be optioned tomorrow to make room for Sunday's starter, righthander Eric Hurley.
Jamey
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THE NEWBERG REPORT
We had a throwback day today.
Took the kids bowling this morning. I might have lived at the bowling alley in those days when I could barely lift the ball if we had lane bumpers back then.
Then we went to buy some vintage T-shirts for school. Back-to-school shopping doesn’t need to be last-minute, and it doesn’t need to be for boring clothes.
A little lunch at the mall, because I remembered how cool I thought that was as a kid, for reasons I can’t really figure out.
After a quick trip to the grocery store, we came back home and finished watching the movie we started last night (“National Treasure: Book of Secrets”), which set up our trip to the library afterwards. Max knew ahead of time that he was going to check out a couple baseball books (we’ll crack open “The Jackie Robinson Story” at bedtime tonight), but Erica wasn’t sure until after finishing the movie, which inspired her to find an Abraham Lincoln biography.
Then we hit Nick’s Sports Cards for our weekly visit to buy Max a pack of Topps. We got a grab bag today as well, and among its contents were a 1977 Larry Bowa and a 1979 Cleveland Elam. A lot of what we’d planned for today was straight out of my memory of the things I did on a summer weekend when I was Erica’s age or Max’s, and the Bowa and Elam cards stared back at me like winks from my own childhood.
Hopped over to TCBY, just because.
We came home and swam a little bit, tiring the kids out before grilling, which I’m about to go do. While in the car for much of the afternoon and while out in the pool, the Rangers were piped in on the radio. Baseball, old school.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t have it in mind to plan this kind of day just because the Rangers weren’t televised. But man, it fit perfectly. That’s exactly how I remember so many July weekend days as a kid, when names like Kurt Bevacqua and Eric Soderholm and Jim Umbarger became larger than life to a kid whose childhood soundtrack featured Dick Risenhoover and Bill Merrill, and soon Mark Holtz and Eric Nadel. Back in those days when Rangers games were rarely televised. But always broadcast on the radio.
Time to fire the grill up for burgers, but first I had to grab a pen and draw my player of the game, even though I didn’t keep a scorebook while listening to the game, like I used to when seemingly all that mattered to me, even more than a trip to Baskin Robbins or Hannah’s Pies, was whether the Rangers won that day.
I doubt Erica and Max will remember today 35 years from now, let alone in a month, but I will, just as clearly as I remember that day early in the 1977 season when Willie Horton went deep three times.
On the radio.
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