The Rangers re-signed former pitcher Aaron Sele this past Saturday. He obviously enjoyed the best part of his career here with Texas during the late 90’s. He’s now pitching for us in AAA Oklahoma, and made one start. He went six innings, giving up four runs on nine hits and two walks. Not exactly setting the world on fire mind you, but then again, neither is anyone else on the major league level.
What I think should happen now is that we bring up Sele, send CJ Wilson back down, and move someone like Greg Colbrunn to the 60 day DL to clear a spot on the 40 for Sele.
Someone on my forums posted this over the last couple of days:
i wanna know why isnt that Diamond kid pitching in the show yet?
Here’s what I wrote about that..
What makes me irritated is how everyone automatically just says “Bring up the stud” like this. It’s not all about that. There’s a lot more to consider than just “bring ’em up” without examining the entire picture.
Read this – all of it – it was from today’s Jamey Newberg’s report.
I suppose we can assume that whatever Texas decides from this point forward with regard to the rotation will have 2006 in mind at least as much as 2005 — but it’s not as if the list of candidates changes that much between the two objectives. If Volquez weren’t still sidelined with that oblique strain, maybe he’d be on the immediate radar, but that’s about it. It would be shocking to see Texas bring John Danks or Thomas Diamond to the big leagues at any point this season, as neither needs to be added to the 40-man roster for another 15 months. Why does that matter?
It’s not so much because of 40-man roster spots right now. Though the roster is full, Texas can clear space easily by transferring Frankie Francisco or Nick Regilio or Laynce Nix or Greg Colbrunn to the 60-day disabled list.
It’s not so much because of concerns over options. Bringing one of those two up now would probably mean neither would return to the farm this season (Frisco’s season will end in less than four weeks), so their first option wouldn’t be exhausted until April (assuming they wouldn’t stick with the big club then). And it’s unlikely that Danks or Diamond will need three years of options, though you don’t want to treat that issue flippantly.
The real issue is what giving Danks or Diamond a look this season would do to the roster this winter. If either is brought up, it would take up a spot on an off-season 40-man roster that will need lots of work. The Rangers will need an influx of several veterans to come in and play significant roles. And the club tends to add three to five Rule 5-eligible prospects to the roster every winter. This winter the eligibles include pitchers Volquez, Hudgins, Wil Rodriguez, Scott Feldman, Kelvin Jimenez, Wes Littleton, A.J. Murray, and Chris Jaile; catcher Lizahio Baez; infielders Ian Kinsler, Joaquin Arias, Drew Meyer, and Nate Gold; and outfielders Ruddy Yan, Vincent Sinisi, Juan Senreiso, and Anthony Webster.
If the plan today is to add five of those players to ensure they aren’t lost in the Rule 5 draft, you don’t want to bring Danks or Diamond up, even for a spot start — because then the plan becomes adding only four draft-eligibles from the above list, and exposing one more prospect to the draft than you have to.
There are some non-roster players whom we’ll likely see in Texas before this season ends, but I’m going to strongly suggest neither Danks nor Diamond will be among them.
I have to say I agree with Jamey on this issue completely – as he wrote this far better than I could, I just used his text. And since I used it, I’ll plug his site – go check out http://www.newbergreport.com and get his newsletter if you aren’t already getting it.
yeah I was wonderin if you had got that from somewhere or researched it