Texas Rangers 2012 Thread

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by MegaMagick

I used to think he was the best pitcher in the MLB, but hasn't he been shaky since the injury last year?

Yes it certainly seems that way.

[Bevo]

Crap! White Sox came back....

[RastaRocket]

Oh boy, I hate the Angels.

[juck]

Right now the Angels have the better team. Our team is off. Athletics are playing maybe the best ball in the division.

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by juck

Right now the Angels have the better team. Our team is off. Athletics are playing maybe the best ball in the division.

A's got 6 runs in the top of the 9th last nite to beat the O's 14-9. Jim Johnson was 30 for 32 in save attempts and gave up a bunch of cheap hits, one after another. Things are going the A's way right now for sure.

[Zordon]

josh is benched today and MY is moved down the 6th spot.

[juck]

Rangers are sliding. Wheels are falling off.

[RastaRocket]

Originally Posted by juck

Rangers are sliding. Wheels are falling off.

At least Napoli is hitting home runs again.

[Zordon]

we're in trouble

Getting a runner in from third with less than two outs should happen 55-60 percent of the time, Texas Rangers hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh said.

The Rangers were in that situation in the fifth and seventh innings Saturday, and came away empty handed in three trips.

For the night, they went 0 for 13 with runners in scoring position and are now 1 for 21 in those situations the opening two games -- both losses -- of a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox.

The 0 for 13 performance is the worst for the Rangers since they went 0 for 14 with RISP on May 13, 1997 against Cleveland. The 0 for 13 also dropped them to a .187 average with RISP over the last 16 games.

Afterwards, the hitters had to sit down and talk about it. They held a rare hitters-only meeting, but believe it will be beneficial in the long run.

[View Full Quote]"Absolutely," Craig Gentry said. "Guys had to get stuff off their chest and, as an offense, we're a whole and we've got to go out there with a team approach. A meeting like that is to get away all the negative things that have been going on and leave with a good attitude.

"Teams go through little funks like this and it's just how mentally strong you are is how quick you come out of it. Tomorrow is a new day and we're going to forget about how bad we've been playing lately and just move on."

What has gone wrong with the Rangers?

Coolbaugh couldn't pinpoint one specific area, but the batters simply haven't executed in clutch situations. The Rangers had three batters -- Ian Kinsler, Leonys Martin and Gentry -- in situations with a runner on third and less than two outs and all three struck out.

"It's not like they're up there not battling," Coolbaugh said. "It's just we're not getting the job done right now.

"If there was something I could just put my finger on it and make a correction, I would definitely bring it up. If it was one thing, whether it's not a long enough fly ball or something that we could get the runner in, but we're either striking out, not getting it out there far enough or hitting a ground ball with the infield in. There's nothing right now that is clicking for us offensively in those situations.

"You would hope you could get 55-60 percent of the guys in, that's a good standard. Every one of them? Obviously not. There's going to be pitchers out there that can make pitches but we've had some opportunities with guys out there that fundamentally we should be able to get guys in. Our hitters are too good not to get those guys in."

Maybe a meeting will be all it takes.

[Mike_45]

Im worried now, never seen a full team slump of this length and magnitude.

[Alweezy]

Originally Posted by Mike_45

Im worried now, never seen a full team slump of this length and magnitude.

yeah I have tho... it was called: "Late May early June".



For me there was nothing that can get on the level of giving up 31 runs to the Mariners in two nights, and then going out to LA and watching the defense just fall apart.


I can live with an offensive slump, or a team simply being better than us. But that particular stretch of games where it didn't come together until we played the Giants was a bad time.

[Mike_45]

Well, they won. Feldman pitched very well. I hope he keeps it up.

[cowboyeric8]

Long season. The hitting will come around.

[RastaRocket]

Originally Posted by cowboyeric8

Long season. The hitting will come around.

I agree. We're lucky the Angels can't figure out how to win when we lose.

[Sam I Am]

Right now is a good time for the bats to come back to life.