Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
Pathetic: Rangers 3, Angels 2
Lose this game, and the Angels are six back of first. Lose the series, and they're done.
Update: Lose it they do. As Sean observed, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, that is, time to start thinking about the Winter Meetings. At least they made one good move and DFA'd Shane Halter. About time; when bench guys are allowed to accumulate ten errors in only 243.1 innings, you've gotta think it's way past time.
I'm going to start thinking about what this team can do to right itself in 2005; on the surface, we're going to have some severe problems because of lack of production from Anderson (after a month and a half we can't just dismiss his lack of power as a fluke), Salmon (Timmy, you had a great career, but it's time to hang 'em up), and Erstad ($8M/year for J.T. Snow is just too much). Should the Angels create a logjam at first by returning Erstad to center and make Anderson play first, while hoping Kotchman finally shows up as the power hitter we've hoped for? Who will play centerfield, knowing Erstad won't last a whole season on his rickety hamstrings? And then what about the logjam in the infield if McPherson comes up and does acceptably? Ugh. Time to punt; more on this later.
Stoneman's lack of foresight and his tendency to overpay for past performance is hurting us badly now.
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