ian kinsler Stories - Over the Monster
Quick Quiz - Hat Tip to Beyond the Box Score
1. Four of the top eight players on Yahoo's Player Rater are 2nd Basemen. Name the four 2B. 2. This 13th ranked player has been benched 4 times in his team's first 15 games despite having no injury. He's third in the NL in HR and RBI. Name him. 3. This NL CF platoon has combined for a .369...
Monday morning things
Evan Grant has a blog post up this morning touching on the pitching v. fielding argument, and saying that the Rangers need to improve the pitching -- and in particular, start giving up fewer walks -- before they worry about the fielding. While I don't disagree with the first part of the premise --...
Season-ending surgery for Kinsler
Ian Kinsler is going to undergo season-ending surgery for his hernia. Nothing more for me to say.
Wednesday morning stuff
Real solid outing from Brandon McCarthy last night...I missed the first few innings, but from what I saw, he looked like the guy the Rangers thought they were getting when they made that Christmas Eve, 2006, trade. He had three solid pitches he was commanding, and he was throwing strikes. If he...
Sunday morning things
Evan Grant's game story talks about the frustrations of the month of August and how they've taken a toll on this team. In particular, he takes Gerald Laird and Ron Washington to task for arguing with Dale Scott on the blown call at home plate, and ignoring Mike Napoli, which allowed Napoli to...
Saturday stuff
Sigh. Matt Harrison is frustrating. And he's going to have to start missing more bats if he is going to stick. Richard Durrett's game story is about Hank Blalock returning to the lineup at first base. Anthony Andro's game story focuses on Matt Harrison's struggles after his terrific outing last...
Wednesday a.m. stuff
You know, I think I'm about ready for the season to end. Everybody's hurt, the bullpen is gassed, the rotation is a mess, the team is losing games...I'm ready to be done with 2008 and move on to 2009, I think. Last night encapsulizes what is so frustrating about Vicente Padilla. He looked great...
Tuesday morning things
Dark day today. The Rangers waste a nice performance from Scott Feldman, and even worse, Ian Kinsler appears to be done for the year. That really sucks. Kinsler is supposed to see a specialist today, and in the meantime, it sounds like Travis Metcalf will be the regular third baseman until Hank...
Dave Cameron's top 50 trade value
Dave Cameron has several items up on Fangraphs, doing a list of the 50 players with the most trade value in baseball right now. The top five goes Longoria, H. Ramirez, Sizemore, Wright, and Pujols, and Josh Hamilton and Ian Kinsler both make the list. Interestingly, Hamilton ranks quite a few...
Bob Sturm on board with Kinsler at 2B
Bob Sturm crunches the numbers on Ian Kinsler vs. Alfonso Soriano at second base, and has come around to the view that Kinsler's range -- unlike Soriano's -- is good enough to make him worth keeping at second base, despite the big error totals...
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