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Post by iowafan on Jun 18, 2010 20:46:21 GMT -5
That is just who they needed to bring up from the minors to make my life complete. The talent in our minor league system for pitching is amazing, it keeps bringing up Wesley Wright. I don't know what he does to keep getting his chances to be blown out in the majors but he keeps coming up, and keeps getting blown out. He is just fortunate that his major league franchise is just posing as major league but is really minor league or he would never get any chances.
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Post by cangrejero on Jun 18, 2010 22:52:52 GMT -5
I like Chacin, they have some good guys, but not playing, like Johnson and instead we have feliz and blum, INCREDIBLE.
We need to trade Lee, Berkman and Oswalt.
This team is awful, imagine, Connor Jackson goes to A's, only giving a minor league reliever and we don't go after a guy like him.
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Post by changeup on Jun 19, 2010 23:11:13 GMT -5
Drayton will only get rid of guys he will have to pay.....that is why he stays away from players like Connor Jackson and signs budget guys like Feliz.
I hope they do trade Oswalt to a team that wants to win.......I hear the Rangers want him. I don't care what they do with Lee and Berkman as long as they get rid of them. Neither of them give a damn since they know Drayton doesn't care about winning.
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Post by cangrejero on Jun 20, 2010 17:42:59 GMT -5
Rangers is a perfect fit for Oswalt, and they have a lot of good pitching in the minors. Go for is ASSTros.
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Post by iowafan on Jun 20, 2010 22:10:57 GMT -5
Oswalt should go to a national league team where he can hit. The American league isn't really baseball, it is a latter day innovation which is for mindless fans that want to see homeruns.
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Post by cangrejero on Jun 21, 2010 11:08:13 GMT -5
Agree, but Rangers are one of few teams with a great number of talent in the minors. That is a great fix for both teams.
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Post by iowafan on Jun 21, 2010 16:21:54 GMT -5
I will never be a fan for anyone in the American League. That is just me. I hate the designated hitter. What right did they have screwing with rules that had been around forever. I feel the same way about anyone that would get rid of the offsides rule in soccer. Rules are rules. In sports you can't change something that people have been playing with for a century. Otherwise you make what the people did in the old times meaningless. What does Babe Ruth mean to anyone today after they screwed with the pitcher hitter rule? It just pisses me off to think about it. It is as dishonest as a player taking steroids today. We don't like baseball, we like the homerun. To the moron fan the rest of the game is meaningless. I just get tired of the stupidity.
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Post by changeup on Jun 22, 2010 15:46:55 GMT -5
Lee needs to be traded to the AL so he can DH. He is too lazy and slow to do anything else.
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Post by iowafan on Jun 22, 2010 16:21:19 GMT -5
The designated hitter needs to be scrapped. People like Lee that can't field, shouldn't be able to just hit. They should be given their walking papers and find a job eating mashed potatoes.
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