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Off a Cliff: The Lee-Smoak Deal
(puns = awesome headlines) As you've undoubtedly heard by now, the Seattle Mariners have traded Cliff Lee and reliever Mark Lowe to the Texas Rangers for first baseman Justin Smoak (the big prize), Blake Beavan, Josh Lueke, and Matthew Lawson. The Mariners are also throwing in $2.5 million...
Sosa Makes Rangers
Sammy Sosa will endure his second stint with the Rangers starting in April. Ron Washington told non roster invitee Sammy Sosa that he will be on the Opening Day roster. There hasn't been an official announcement and he hasn't been moved onto the 40-man roster, but Adam Katz and GM Jon Daniels plan...
Jon Daniels chat session
The DMN hosted a chat session with Jon Daniels yesterday, and I know that there was some discussion of it yesterday, along with a FanShot, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw it and checked it out, as there was a lot of good stuff there... You can read it by clicking here...
Wednesday a.m. stuff
I was all prepared to talk about how I had mentally geared up for a 10 game losing streak to end the season, and then the Rangers won last night, and ruminate about Hank Blalock's resurgence... However, the big news today is that Nolan says Jon Daniels and Ron Washington will be back next year....
More Rangers pitching talk
From a notes column from Jim Molony, who is one of the mlb.com writers: Scouts say the problem with the Texas pitching staff stems from the fact that they are rushed to the big leagues, even though they don't have command of their breaking balls, or have below-average off-speed stuff. The result...
Nolan Ryan, organizational power, and minor league pitching
So we have the quote out there from Tommy Hunter, talking to Jason Cole, about how Nolan Ryan came in and "laid down the law" in regards to the minor league pitchers being expected to throw more pitches in games. And that dovetails with the comments in the media about how Ryan has decreed that...
Friday a.m. things
A lot of stuff today in the S-T about Nolan Ryan, with his former team coming to town... Jeff Wilson has a piece in the S-T that includes an odd quote from Tom Hicks: Said Hicks: "Some of the mistakes J.D. made in trades we wouldn't have made had Nolan been at the table. I don't think we'll...
Tuesday morning stuff
Back to 2 games under .500, after last night's come from behind, blow the lead then come back again victory. The game story in the DMN focuses on the Ramon Vazquez mojo...the Rangers are 56-46 when he starts for them. Today is also the one year anniversary of the last time (before yesterday) the...
Trade demands
There's been some discussion on this piece from Peter Gammons, which includes this snippet about the Rangers and Mets: You know what the Rangers wanted from the Mets last winter for Vicente Padilla? Mike Pelfrey, Aaron Heilman, Deolis Guerra. Okay...first of all, let's recall this is coming...
Heyman on g.m.s on the hot seat
Jon Heyman has a piece up about general managers who are on the hot seat, and Jon Daniels is one of 7 g.m.s listed, although Heyman's comments about Daniels are generally positive... He does acknowledge that if Nolan Ryan, in his role as team president, opts to lop off some heads over the season's...
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