Comments on: About Last Night: Sometimes Rangers Are The Windshield, Sometimes They Are The Bug http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/07/07/about-last-night-sometimes-rangers-are-the-windshield-sometimes-they-are-the-bug/ InsideCorner sports page and blog analyzes Dallas sports teams including the Texas Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, and Dallas Stars with original reporting, statistical analysis. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Casey Abell http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/07/07/about-last-night-sometimes-rangers-are-the-windshield-sometimes-they-are-the-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-24937 Casey Abell Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:00:38 +0000 http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/?p=9293#comment-24937 Main thing is to avoid a sweep, which guarantees leaving Anaheim no worse than one game out. The Angels aren't getting the kind of spectacular luck they enjoyed last year, so their record isn't absurdly better than their run diff. Really, the two teams are evenly matched. Unless one of them picks up Halladay, it's hard to see either of them running away from the other. Main thing is to avoid a sweep, which guarantees leaving Anaheim no worse than one game out. The Angels aren’t getting the kind of spectacular luck they enjoyed last year, so their record isn’t absurdly better than their run diff. Really, the two teams are evenly matched. Unless one of them picks up Halladay, it’s hard to see either of them running away from the other.

]]> By: JE http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/07/07/about-last-night-sometimes-rangers-are-the-windshield-sometimes-they-are-the-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-24935 JE Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:56:32 +0000 http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/?p=9293#comment-24935 Evan, Millwood's LOB% is down to 80.1. Just sayin'. Evan, Millwood’s LOB% is down to 80.1. Just sayin’.

]]> By: Ehren http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/07/07/about-last-night-sometimes-rangers-are-the-windshield-sometimes-they-are-the-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-24933 Ehren Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:35:13 +0000 http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/?p=9293#comment-24933 Evan, Here is Tom Verducci's mid season report. I really noticed a lack of Rangers on the list. How can Young not be a MVP candidate since he lists 10! Number 10 is Shin-Soo Choo, Indians. I think Young has done more than him. Verducci also kept Young off his list of all-stars by merit. Brandon Inge is the back-up on his list. Andrus was not listed as ROY possibility either. Only Wash was listed as possible MOY. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tom_verducci/07/07/midseason.report/index.html?eref=sihpT1 Evan, Here is Tom Verducci’s mid season report. I really noticed a lack of Rangers on the list. How can Young not be a MVP candidate since he lists 10! Number 10 is Shin-Soo Choo, Indians. I think Young has done more than him. Verducci also kept Young off his list of all-stars by merit. Brandon Inge is the back-up on his list. Andrus was not listed as ROY possibility either. Only Wash was listed as possible MOY.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tom_verducci/07/07/midseason.report/index.html?eref=sihpT1

]]> By: Ehren http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/07/07/about-last-night-sometimes-rangers-are-the-windshield-sometimes-they-are-the-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-24932 Ehren Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:29:56 +0000 http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/?p=9293#comment-24932 you try not to blow through your bullpen the first game of a series. so you'll use up 5 guys in the pen but hey you'll be close that game. you try not to blow through your bullpen the first game of a series. so you’ll use up 5 guys in the pen but hey you’ll be close that game.

]]> By: S. Arcasm http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/07/07/about-last-night-sometimes-rangers-are-the-windshield-sometimes-they-are-the-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-24931 S. Arcasm Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:10:15 +0000 http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/?p=9293#comment-24931 "That was plainly evident in the second inning and got progressively worse. " If it was plainly evident, and I agree that it was, why was he not pulled until he had given up 9 runs? It wasn't that the Angel bats were so hot no one could stop them, they were shut out the rest of the game by the lower echelons of the bullpen. When a starter doesn't have it, why does Wash insist on staying with them until the game is out of reach? Does Maddox agree with that assessment? It just seems that Millwood could have been pulled after it was obvious he was having a bad night and given the team a chance to catchup. “That was plainly evident in the second inning and got progressively worse. ”

If it was plainly evident, and I agree that it was, why was he not pulled until he had given up 9 runs? It wasn’t that the Angel bats were so hot no one could stop them, they were shut out the rest of the game by the lower echelons of the bullpen.

When a starter doesn’t have it, why does Wash insist on staying with them until the game is out of reach? Does Maddox agree with that assessment? It just seems that Millwood could have been pulled after it was obvious he was having a bad night and given the team a chance to catchup.

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