Friday, February 6, 2009

Off-season moves to date

Ok let's just offer up a summary of the Rangers' off-season to date:

Trades:
Golson CF, AA
Moscoso SP, AA
Melo SP, AZL
Vaughan RP, AAA

Rule 5:
G. Rodriguez 2B/SS, AA
Sarmiento C, A+

FA Minor Leaguers (not with team last year):
Huffman 1b/3b (inf/cof), AAA
N. Haynes CF, AAA
B. Harrigan C, A-
A Thompson P, AZL
Pedro Strop RP, AA

Non-Roster Invites (not with staff last year)
Major League Experience:
Omar Vizquel SS/Inf
Melhuse C
Guardado RP
Jennings SP
Turnbow RP
Daigle, RP

Minor Leaguers:
J. Torres, RP

Critical Moves:
Moved Young to 3B
Andrus will be starting SS sometime in 09
Signed Vizquel to start/backup at SS
re-signed Blalock to DH
Added Bannister and Eyre to 40-man
Traded Laird for Moscoso and Melo
Traded Mayberry for Golson
Signed Pedro Strop (available in a Madrigal-like blunder)
Signed Melhuse, provides vet backstop in case catcher is traded
Signed Jennings for AAA roster spot
Signed Turnbow to see if he can recapture late-innings magic of 06
Signed Joe Torres to compete for Loogy spot
Traded Littleton
Let Loe go to Japan
Signed Nathan Haynes in case some OF are traded are released
Did not resign Bradley, Wright, Vazquez

Moves yet to come (YAWN):
Starting Pitcher - Only an NRI type if any
Could also take a flyer on a rehabbing guy

Relief Pitcher - Gagne (Cruz too $$) is possible, more likely a 40yo NRI MR
Could also take a flyer on a rehabbing guy

Position Players - Probably a 40yo RH-hitter as NRI in case of CATT $$dump


What does it all mean?
Defense should be much improved with addition of Vizquel/Andrus, Young to 3B
Traded Laird for Salty/TG platoon
Added veteran position depth (melhuse, Haynes) in case of trades of surplus OF/C
Resigning Blalock allows MAx to spend all of pre-ASB period catching at AAA
Having Davis for a full season: No more Broussard/shelton/blalock/Salty/Catt/Botts at 1B!!!!
Not resigning Bradley: More playing time for Cruz, Boggs, Borbon, Golson and Murphy in addition to creating more roster flexibility
As for the Pitching: NADA, the youth-movement will begin to traipse its way through BPIA beginning about June as our pitches are DL'd one by one and quicken in pace as some vets are traded for major-league ready prospects to hasten our excitement for the 2010 season when these guys are competing for rotation spots:

Holland, Feliz, Harrison, Moscoso, Hunter, Diamond, T-Murph, Poveda, Kiker, McCarthy, Feldman
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3 comments:

  1. Yo, goyogringo, t ball here. In your critical moves, don't forget about the new pitching and bullpen coaches. Enjoying the posts, and while I don't agree with all of your rankings, the info and format is very nice, well done.

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  2. Yo, goyogringo, Rodney here. In your critical moves, don't forget to ignore t ball!

    :)

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  3. heh, glad you guys are popping on. No doubt, t-ball, those should really be considered the beginning of the moves for 2009.

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