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Manny Ramirez

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  • OF/DH Manny Ramirez signed to a 1 year contract and assigned to AAA [ Link ]

NOTES:  Normally I don’t report transactions on minor league signings with no corresponding major league move, because there’s a ton of them.  This one, however is not your garden variety minor league signing.   If you’re reading this page, you know Manny Ramirez.   I know a lot of people are bent out of shape for bringing him in.   It *IS* a bit of an eyebrow raiser, but I don’t object to it.   I’m kind of “meh” about the whole thing.   The Rangers are not bringing him up just for the show of having his name attached to the club.   If he does make it to the majors (which I’m not convinced of), then he will have earned it.   The way our offense is sputtering, we could use it – assuming he can actually still hit.

Kyle McClellan DFA’ed

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  • P Kyle McClellan designated for assignment
  • P Josh Lindblom recalled from AAA

NOTES:  Trading one “meh” for another.

Gentry to DL

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  • OF Craig Gentry placed on 15 day DL, retro to Jun 21
  • OF Engel Beltre recalled from AAA [ Link ]

NOTES: Craig Gentry goes on the DL with a fracture in his left hand.  He hasn’t exactly been tearing it up, but hasn’t been bad, either.   Always hate to see that.  It does however, open a window for Engel Beltre.   If Beltre comes up and does well, I think between that and the way Leonys Martin has been playing this year it might spell the end of David Murphy’s time here.  Murph hasn’t exactly helped himself this year, either.   We’ll see how this goes.

Martin Perez back

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  • P Martin Perez recalled from AAA
  • P Smokin’ Joe Ortiz optioned to AAA [ Link ]

NOTES:  Martin Perez is back.  I hope he can get a handle on a starting spot in the rotation, as he was looking REALLY good in the spring before he got hurt.  If he kept going at the rate he was then, I wonder if he’d have like 10 wins by now if he had never gotten hurt.  Bring it on Martin!

Moreland Back

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  • 1B Mitch Moreland activated from 15 day DL
  • P Josh Lindblom optioned to AAA [ Link ]

NOTES: Well, Lindblom has been “eh”, so I guess we felt we were OK with swapping a pitcher for a hitter, as that’s what happened.  Moreland is back, hopefully he can keep doing well, and the loss of momentum doesn’t affect him.

Bloody Rangers!

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An event in last night’s game made me think INSTANTLY of Nolan Ryan.  So I screen grabbed a shot of them together from the TV, and slapped it on here.  Made me laugh.   Click it for a larger version.

bloodyrangers

 

Several Moves

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  • P Smokin’ Joe Ortiz recalled from AAA
  • C Robinson Chirinos recalled from AAA
  • IF Jeff Baker placed on 15 day DL, retro to Jun 13
  • 1B Chris McGuiness optioned to AAA [ Link ]

NOTES:  McGuinness wasn’t doing much, so he was an obvious candidate to go to AAA if someone had to go.  Jeff Baker going to the DL is unfortunate, I’ve rather liked how he’s been going.    Smokin’ Joe is back (I’m still calling him that – pbbbbt), probably due to bullpen fatigue.  I’m not entirely sure why they called up a third catcher at the moment, though.

Kinsler Back

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  • 2B Ian Kinsler activated off 15 day DL
  • IF Leury Garcia optioned to AAA [ Link ]

NOTES: Kinsler is back from his stint on the disabled list.   Given our offense has been pretty lethargic the last week or so, his arrival could help.  Assuming he doesn’t pop out 70% of the time like he usually does.

Stopping For Now

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I’ll get straight to the point.  After much consideration, I’ve decided to stop doing the daily updates here.

Since I dropped cable TV, my ability to keep up with Rangers games has been really impacted.  Those who have followed my site would have heard me rant about that.  However, one thing that also has changed a lot since last season is the fact that I am working again.    That has taken up more of my time than I anticipated.  I tend to work strange hours, and my need to timeshift the games is even more of an issue than it was before.  Before, I could get away with it, because I wasn’t working, and could devote more time to the games, especially since I had to listen to them when they happened due to radio.  Work has impacted that more than I thought it would.

I tried this season to keep it going, but about 3 times, I’ve fallen behind on updates of like 10 games.  When the team has played only 64 – that’s a lot.  When I fell behind most recently, I started thinking of doing the catch up work and quite frankly, I just didn’t want to.  Most of the games during the week I just miss totally anymore.   What time I get in the evenings that I’m not working is now spent with my kids and wife.  That’s NO complaint, just a reality.  They deserve my time more than the baseball games do.   By the time I’m done with them, the games are over.  There’s been a game or two in the last few weeks that I got notified via email it was over, and I didn’t even realize they were playing.   I also realized that I never updated my roster page once the team broke camp back at the end of Spring Training.  That’s fallen way behind, and right now I don’t have really have the desire (much less the time) to go through all that and update it.

Due to all this, I’ve decided this is the time to stop trying to force myself to do daily updates.   The above is why.  However, I’m not stopping cold turkey.  I’m not taking the site down.  I will leave it here, I’ve put a lot of work into this since I started in December 1998.  Going forward, I will still maintain these parts:

  • “How Many in 201x”.  I’ve rather enjoying keeping track of that the last few seasons.  It ties in mostly to transactions, but I’ve had some nice compliments on that, so I’ll keep doing it.
  • Uniform Number History – that’s been a thing I’ve REALLY enjoyed more than any other on the site.  I’ve gotten personal communications from Victor Rojas (when he was here), and Eric Nadel about the usefulness of that, so with those in mind, I will make sure that gets updated going forward.

Plus, when the mood strikes, I’ll say something.   But it’s obvious to anyone that I’ve pulled back, but in my mind I still saw it as something that needed to be updated every day.  By releasing myself from that, I think I can enjoy the thing a bit more, and perhaps not stress out so much about missing bits.  I’m still going to follow the team, I’m still going to be paying attention where I can (given the boundaries I set out above).  I’m still going to be a Rangers fan, and I’m keeping up, just not as visibly on these pages.

Thanks to all who have visited me over the years, and as I said – not going away, just changing focus.  Go visit me and a lot of other great Rangers fans on our Facebook Texas Rangers Fan Page.

Thanks, and God Bless You!

Joe