First Philly gives the Dallas area Terrell Owens. Today they gave us Vicente Padilla, as Philly released Ricardo Rodriguez, so that leaves them with nothing from the trade for Padilla. Thanks guys. :)
ST25: Rangers lose to A’s on Tueday, 8-3
Juan Dominguez has probably pitched himself out of the starting rotation with his performance today. He went 4 innings, gave up four earned runs on 5 hits with three walks. Not the stuff a guy looking to earn a spot needs to put up. If you’ve been following the Rangers recently, you’ll know that Dominguez is one of those “lots of talent, can’t put it together for long” type of guys. The team from what I can gather was hoping he’d step up and win a job. Doesn’t look like it will happen, he continues to fail to grab a hold of the opportunities in front of him.
Scott Feldman, who is a dark horse to make the club, but did well in his 05 appearances, threw a shutout frame. R.A. Dickey, who is likely to be the #5 guy went 2IP, and gave up a couple of runs. Not lights out either, but he’s been way more consistant than Dominguez has been. Antonio Alfonseca also gave up a run in his inning, but I don’t think he’s a serious candidate to make the club, anyway.
Read a story tonight where the Rangers lead all spring training clubs in home runs. What a shock that is. That’s all we do, really. :) We had two more in this game, one by Mark DeRosa, and another by Phil Nevin. In fact, we only had 6 hits in the whole game, and outside of the home runs, Adam Hyzdu had two of the remaining four hits. Not a lot there.
We’re getting closer, I’d expect to see some big moves made in the next day or so, as we break camp on Thursday, I believe.
Some thoughts on baseball videogames
Here’s something I submitted several times to 2K Games. They had an “Ask the developer” series where you could submit questions, and the devs would address them. I sent this several times, and never got a reply, so I’m posting it here. It’s about uniform number issues in baseball videgames.
One thing that always bothers me about every baseball game is the callous attention paid to uniform number control. I see two issues here:
1) Retired Numbers
2) Number collision
With the first one, I think it would be cool to have each team have their real numbers as blocked off and then in franchise mode, you could retire other players’ numbers, too.
With the second, there’s nothing to stop me from having an entire team with the same number if I wanted to edit the players. If you play enough franchise mode, players get moved around alot, and you end up with more than one guy on the same team with the same uniform number. I wish it would be possible for the game to recognize that the team alraedy has a #27 (random number picked for this example), and then if you create a new player, sign a FA, or trade for someone who has #27, you get asked what you want to do about it.
Or failing that, at least let us be able to edit uniform numbers. I can understand not wanting to edit players in franchise mode, but for those of us who care about editing our own rosters to be as accurate as possible, the inability to edit uniform numbers is fairly annoying. Course all this could be turned off, or better yet have to be turned on as an option for those who want this kind of micromanaging.
Mark Teixeira on videogames
I found this when it was first posted, but forgot to mention it. IGN had posted an interview with Mark Teixeira back on March 14th where he talks mostly about baseball videogames. It’s a different interview from the usual ones you read about winning, losing, baseball, etc. Here’s a few tidbits from it:
IGN Sports: Who is a better hitter, you or the guy in MLB 2K?
Mark Teixeira: It depends what difficulty I’m playing on. If I’m playing on Easy, then I’m pretty good, but if the pitchers are set to All-Star in the game, I think I do better in real life.
IGN Sports: So I know what kind of hitter you’re going to be in the videogame, but if I’m hitting against you on Xbox Live, what kind of pitcher are you going to be?
Mark Teixeira: I definitely mix it up. I know everyone looks fastball, so I’m going to throw a lot of off-speed pitches, some sliders, and I’m going to get you to swing at some bad pitches.
IGN Sports: Who is a better hitter, you or the guy in MLB 2K?
Mark Teixeira: It depends what difficulty I’m playing on. If I’m playing on Easy, then I’m pretty good, but if the pitchers are set to All-Star in the game, I think I do better in real life.
Go check out the full interview with Mark, it’s a pretty good read.
Roster Moves Begin
The slew of roster moves this week begins. On Monday night, we released Eurbiel Durazo, and placed John Wasdin on waivers.
Durazo isn’t that much of a shock. He’s not 100% healthy (I think), and there didn’t appear to be a spot for him. On the broadcast tonight, Jon Daniels said that they knew he wasn’t going to make the team, and told him now, so he could have a little extra time to hook up with someone else. His contract stated he had to be told by Wed whether or not he was going to make the club.
Wasdin is a little more of a surprise, although he hasn’t pitched terribly well this spring. I thought he was a servicable, if not great pitcher during his time here, and my intial response was “That was a surprise” until I looked at his numbers.
This probably means that Fabio Castro will likely (IMO) be on the roster when the season starts Monday.
Durazo Released
- IF Eurbiel Durazo Released
- P John Wasdin placed on irrevocable waivers [ Link ]
ST24: Rangers lose to Mariners 10-9 on Monday
Well, it was a big Rangers TV night. There was a 2006 Season preview show, the regular half hour pregame show, and then the game was on TV. A good night for Rangers on the TV.
However, Edinson Volquez stunk up the joint in the first inning. He gave up a six spot there, and while that’s never good, he wasn’t really hit around hard. A few bloopers, a call on the field that didn’t go our way. I’m not trying to absolve hium, but it’s not like he was murdered either.
However, in the bottom of the first, Gil Meche walked the bases full, and had Laynce Nix down looking silly with some curveballs. He then inexplicably grooved Nix a fastball down the middle, and Nix wailed it for a grand slam, to make it 6-4 in the first inning. The game went on like that for awhile, back and forth (with more home runs by Dellucci, Mench, and another one from Nix) until the 8th when it was tied up 9-9. We then gave up a run in the 9th and couldn’t get a run across in the bottom of the ninth.
Was nice seeing all this offense – the key word being seeing – I liked seeing the Rangers on TV again. This is the last game I’ll see on TV though until Tuesday the 4th of April, as I’ll be at the Sat Apr 1 and Mon Apr 3 (Opening Day) games. :)
ST23: Rangers beat Brewers 4-3, on TV!
No time for game commentary, but it was a great game. Plus it was on TV.
The game was really great, nice close one, however these “corporate guests” during spring training broadcasts have to go. I mean, does anyone care to hear what the rep from Reliant Energy has to say? Who cares, talk baseball, please – and not do an ad piece for your sponsor company. Can’t wait until we get Lexus touting how great it is to be involved with the Rangers. Sigh. Thank God for TiVo, so I can skip over these extended advertisements.
Rangers Captain knawing on Chuck Morgan’s head was funny, though.
Mahay
- P Ron Mahay reassigned to minor league camp [ Link ]
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