i heart josh hamilton

Good Lord, you all sure have short memories.

By the way, both Mickey Mantle and Chipper Jones were/are both switch hitters, not lefties. Chipper is up to .418 on the season, so he is hitting almost 100 points higher than Hamilton.

Showalter is an idiot. Greatest performance by a left handed hitter ? I don't think so. He might want to look at some numbers from the last decade at least before making that kind of statement. Or at least see what Hamilton does in a longer period of time than the first 2 months of the season. Want me to give you some stats of lefties to compare him to ???

Hell, Nate McLouth the Pirates CF is a lefty and his numbers are almost as good as Hamilton, he's hitting .315 with 12 homers and he is no good.

In fact, I would argue the trade for Hamilton wasn't really a good one. The Rangers have always been able to score runs. They just haven't figured out how to pitch and thus will always be a team around .500 or so until they figure out the other side of the game.

Meanwhile, the guy they gave up for him is 24 years old and leading the NL in ERA and has won 7 games with the awful Cincinnati Reds.

I like Hamilton, but you all act like school girls at an Elvis concert.

Hook em
 
Uncle Rico:

Ok, if Buck didn't say that, then you said it after the sentence attributed to Buck.

Look ,I am not trying to rain on anyone's parade. I like Hamilton, I like him a lot but it just seemed to me like everyone was getting a tad excited.

There have been so many guys in MLB that flamed out after a few months or even a couple of years. Hell, I know I am old because I remember a Sports Illustrated cover that touted Clint Hurdle as potentially the greatest player ever...

And I do think the Rangers are never going to win until they figure out the pitching side of the equation, and I like the Rangers.

Hook em
 
no harm bubba don. some players flame out but those guys aren't usually the ones with the talent level of hamilton. i could be wrong, but i hope not.

i have been saying since the beginning of the season that we need to ship some of our current and young players that have high value for pitching. i would deal kinsler, millwood, padilla, laird/salty, etc.

i like all of those guys but you have to give up to get and even if we finish 2nd we still go into next season not knowing who the hell is going to be in our rotation. j daniles has done very well getting guys in our minor league system via trades last year now he needs to figure out who to keep and who to deal.
 
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