SoxBlanco

Why are people complaining about Hendriks running here? Would you rather have him batting this inning? I certainly don't want to take him out of the game.

Fingers crossed that this post doesn't age well!

I’ve been watching the draft at a buddy’s house all night. Anybody willing to give a quick summary on how Cease looks so far? I see the box score, but how’s his command?

I wonder if we’ll see a couple different “back strains” this year with Crochet and Kopech. Wouldn’t be a terrible idea.

He never said the models are a trillion times more accurate. He said over a large sample, the model will be more accurate than a scout 99.99999999999% of the time. EDIT: I'm not trying to argue the math. I'm trying to argue the context of the math.

Remember that one time when Greg Maddux needed only 76 pitches to throw a complete game against the Cubs? Well the Rangers have 106 pitches after only 3 innings. Ouch.

OPS up to .800

Sometimes when I’m trying to decide what the best decision is, I think about what the other team is hoping we would do. I think Texas would rather have Grandal bunt than have Robert attempt a steal. And I’m saying that as somebody who doesn’t hate the decision to bunt. It’s like when you’re watching a football game and the opposing team has 4th and inches at their own 40 yard line. You’re probably thinking “Please punt.” That tells you right there that they are probably better off going for it.

We need @gusguyman to run his simulations.

The Rangers broadcasters sound like me after game 2 of the playoffs last year.

Any chance Boston picked up on something Lucas was doing to tip the change?

I haven’t watched any of the game and just saw the score right now. What was Boston’s approach? Sit on the change?

Nothing huge. Just little comments here and there that the casual listener wouldn’t recognize as a dislike of Grandal. Earlier, he questioned the pitch call in a snarky fashion when Crochet gave up the run on the ground ball. Then when Grandal let one through his legs, he was adamant about he needed to block it (which was correct, but he seemed a little too enthusiastic about pointing it out).

Stone hates Grandal more than Harold does, which is a tough feat to accomplish.

I was at a Trayce Thomson buzzer beater a couple years ago. It was awesome.

To me, that call is on the base umpires. How did nobody see that? The home plate ump saw the swing, looked down, and saw the ball loose.

Because of the 25 pitches he has thrown so far?

This thread is exactly why I was in favor of he plan to have Kopech and Crochet start with the big league team. There will be plenty of opportunities to get multi-inning relief appearances and build up their innings. And they get to do it against big league hitters.

True, but there's also the issue of being a little anxious to get that first hit or anxious to help out the team right away. Remember how bad Eloy looked on low off-speed stuff against KC during his first series a couple years ago? I'm not worried about Vaughn.

He looked fantastic. Best fastball command I've seen from him in a long time, and he was hitting 97/98 at times. He looked like a completely different pitcher.

23 more at bats.

Tony??? That’s a horrible take. These are major league baseball players dropping the baseball and making bad throws. The manager should get 0% of the blame. If they were throwing to the wrong base or missing the cut off, then you might have an argument, but this is 100% on the players.

Yep. If Vaughn can play an adequate LF and Yermin is the DH, then our lineup is what we thought it would be during the offseason, with Mercedes replacing Eloy. And if Mercedes can produce, we might not be losing as much as it seemed when Eloy went down. Having said that, I understand it’s only one game. However, he has produced at every level, and his two strike approach looked great last night.

Mercedes could go 0-5 with 5 K’s in three of his first four games this year and still be batting .250.

You serious?