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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The Rangers have acquired right-handed hitting outfielder Jeff Francoeur from the Mets for infielder Joaquin Arias, who was designated for assignment last week.
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Star-Telegram blog: Rangers, Mets talking Jeff Francoeur The only trade discussion with any traction for the Rangers involves Jeff Francoeur, a right-handed-hitting outfielder for the Mets. A source said that talks with Boston for Mike Lowell, Colorado for Ryan Spilborghs and Los Angeles for Reed Johnson have broken off after those clubs determined that those players are not expendable.
MLB.com: Rockies get Delcarmen from Red Sox Colorado acquired Delcarmen from the Red Sox for Minor League right-hander Chris Balcom-Miller and cash considerations. It wasn’t immediately known how much of Delcarmen’s salary his new club would assume.
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1. jwb Posted: September 01, 2010 at 12:52 AM (#3631302)(and Delta flies to Dallas)
Only if he'll accept that role, Russlan. Nobody -- especially not a contender -- needs or wants a grumpy jackass on their bench in the last month of the season.
Just great.
Word is Mejia and Duda are being called up.
do the Rangers assume this represents his true level of ability?
(that will be 3-for-3 if it happens)
Texas fans, can Arias play 2nd?
tradus interruptus
Heyman:
only by about June of next year
I'm sure Josh Lewin knows what Francoeur doesn't bring to the party.
You know what he doesn't bring to the party? A NEW YORK MET UNIFORM!!!! One down, two to go.
Granted, Castillo and Ollie will be a lot tougher medicine for the Wilpons to swallow, but you have to start somewhere. Clear away that dead wood, boys. Make room for something new. Anything new.
Well, he didn't seem as happy as the other dude. But it doesn't matter, I'm way happier than either of them.
a) They probably have to sound happy about it.
b) Rangers sent along Joaquin Arias. That alone should appease Rangers fans (and announcers).
hmmm...its not nice to fool Mother Nature
That line just never gets old. It's gotta be in the Top 10 of all-time baseball quotes.
This is supposed to be a happy thread!
They are still 8-1/2 games up.
Higher than "Chris Dial needs another drink man!" but lower than "I am very low on avacados right now."
It's weird to me that there are large numbers of fans for teams like the Rangers and Rockies and Angels. Typically, if a team exists west of Alabama and in the American League I sort of default to thinking of it as sort of a Legoland playset creation more than an actual team with human fans. I was in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago and was stunned to find actual humans engaged in the playoff plight of the Twins. I honestly thought Aaron Gleeman was a 'bot.
Are the Rangers lefty OFs that bad against LHP? What's the story with Aris?
In the late 1980s I was half-convinced that the Atlanta Braves were a hoax, created by the same group that faked the moon landing.
Not that the Rangers are that bad hitting lefties, but that Francoeur can't do much else.
Arias is the notorious PTBNL that the Rangers chose instead of Robinson Cano. He can hit a very little (.286 lifetime, no power or walks) but is prone to lapses in the infield and on the basepaths, and the Rangers are tired of him.
And Sam, now that I have registered on your radar, Borbon has been anything but terrible in CF. He's faster than Hell and very sure of himself out there. It is true that he can't hit, but at .267 he's still 30 points higher than Francoeur, and a BA that high keeps him in the league as a fast #9 hitter. Moving Hamilton to CF would be a disaster for the Rangers. Their pitching looks as good as it does partly because Borbon is so good in center that they can play two marginal CFs (Murphy and Hamilton) in the corners when Nelson Cruz (an acceptable RF himself) is out of the lineup. I very much doubt that Francoeur's modest edge over Borbon at the plate could offset the domino-like effect of overextending Hamilton's defense by putting him in CF, and thereby making the corner defense weaker in turn.
From my keyboard to Ron Washington's mind, I hope ...
Murphy played CF last night- his overall numbers don't reflect how good he has been since the break- he was hitting for average before, but not doing much else- since the break- .277/.365/.496.
In the late '80s you would have found better baseball on the moon.
No he can't. His line this year isn't even all that impresssive- .280/.351/.410/.761.
I guess Murphy has a pretty regular split, and could probably benefit from sitting against LHP, but now that I look it up, he has been pretty good against them this year- .290/.345/.400/.745.
With Vlad in right and Cruz in left ... and the Rangers gave up ten runs :(
Frenchy can go get it in CF with the best of them. You're gonna love him.
I'd have to look at the play log and hit locations, but I doubt all ten of these runs are because of the outfielders. Or even a majority.
But that's just the short-term. You have to worry that if the Rangers get a decent month out of him they will try to get him on the post-season roster in place of superior talent, or extend him beyond that. This is a reasonable thing to worry about, particularly since the Rangers have a fairly safe lead and there is almost no chance that the Bordeaux Bomber will have any real impact even if he does happen to win a few games for them. So, it's all risk (the risk of being stuck with Pepé Le Pew) with the only possibility of a benefit being that he has a great month, sneaks on to the postseason roster, and then has an impact in the postseason. I am guessing that Rangers fans could put up with Kermit's presence on the roster in 2011 if he brings them some glory in October, but beyond that highly unlikely scenario, they can just hope that he gets a few quiet plate appearances in September and then heads back to Gay Paree.
I'm the same way. All the National League teams are very tangible to me, but outside of the American League teams that the media beats me over the head with and/or those formerly local to me (Yankees, Red Sox, Rays), AL teams are an abstract concept.
An odd thing about the Rangers this year is that they keep bringing in veteran presence and the team keeps spinning its wheels. They've played .500 ball over the last two months, the Cliff Lee / Bengie Molina / Jorge Cantu era. Seems to me the kids were doing OK on their own, though of course their schedule has been tougher since the Break.
I assume this is a joke.
If they weren't planning on including him on the postseason roster, they wouldn't have rushed to get the trade done on the last day for postseason eligibility.
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