Day After Thoughts

Bombin' Jones leads us to 1st

Busy work today so the post game is coming a little late.

The Rangers came out last night and pounded Ervin Santana and the Angels en route to the top of the AL West. I couldn't do the in-game blog last night, but Trevor did a good job filling in. I did however watch the game, my thoughts:

Andruw Jones - WOW. 3 home runs last night. This guy is not missing mistakes over the plate. He is swinging with full confidence and he's seeing the ball well. On his 2nd at bat, he laid off some very tough pitches before getting a fastball over the middle of the plate (I don't care what Santana says, that was not a "good fastball.") Is he back to the form of his Atlanta days??

Angels effort - Is it just me, or were the Angels very flat last night in a huge game at home? I'm wondering if the effect of Vlad and Torii Hunter out of the lineup plus the Rangers quick start in the first inning kind of took the wind out of their sails from the get go. The Rangers really didn't give them any hope of being in this game, but the Angels didn't show any fight either.

Vicente Padilla - Looked healthy and pitched well. He seemed to struggle early with his command but he definitely found it as the game went on. The strikeout of Abreu was a thing of beauty. He says he is fine after coming out of the game in the 6th, so hopefully he can build on this start his next time out.


Is anyone dreaming about Roy Halliday in Texas? I wouldn't get your hopes up. The Rangers are having madd financial issues and they have come out and said they will not expand their payroll with any trade. It is possible to work out a deal where Toronto would still pay a share of Halliday's contract (see: Arod trade to New York), but I do not think the Rangers are interested in giving away any big peices on their deep farm team. In my opinion, in order to get Halliday you are looking at losing Neftali Feliz, Julio Borbon, and maybe Blake Bevin, and depending on the greed of Toronto, Justin Smoak. I am personally not interested in giving up any of those players, especially Feliz and Smoak. The Rangers could have something in the works to bring a player in before the deadline, but don't count on Halliday.

Interesting read on texasrangers.com about the Rangers top 20 prospects.

If you love stats, particularly those involving the Rangers vs. Angels, check this out.

I will now post this, do some work, and then begin researching this Mariners team....