Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 02, 2008
Pitching Purge

The Texas Rangers replaced their pitching coaches Friday night:

The Rangers fired pitching coach Mark Connor and bullpen coach Dom Chiti after Friday's 9-8 win against Toronto.

Triple-A Oklahoma pitching coach Andy Hawkins and Jim Colborn, director of Pacific Rim operations and a pitching coach for two years under former Pittsburgh manager Jim Tracy, will take over for the rest of the season. Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said the club will re-evaluate both coaches at that time.

Texas pitchers own the worst ERA in the American League, the only team with an ERA over 5.00. The Rangers are the highest scoring team in the majors at 5.63 runs per game, yet they've been outscored by more than 30 runs. If new pitching coaches can knock down the Rangers ERA, they have a chance at making a run at the wild card this season.

"We felt we weren't seeing the progress we wanted to see," Rangers president Nolan Ryan said. "We're serious about the wild-card race, and in fairness to our offense, we needed to try to do something to improve our pitching. We owe them that."

Posted by David Pinto at 11:19 AM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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If the new coaches can pitch then Texas will get better.Old story,fire coaches,keep players who cannot play.

Posted by: fred at August 2, 2008 11:51 AM

Nolan Ryan: "We're serious about the wild-card race, and in fairness to our offense, we needed to try to do something to improve our pitching."

And yet they didn't do anything at the trade deadline to upgrade the worst pitching in the majors. What, Adam Eaton wasn't available?

Posted by: Steve at August 2, 2008 05:14 PM

Just the wild card? You've got the best offense in baseball but you'll be happy to compete for the wild card next season?

Posted by: Tor at August 3, 2008 11:39 AM

ticket sales are down from last year (with TV viewership up pretty high) likely due to the fact that DFW is so spread out, and for some reason the ballpark got planted 40 miles from anywhere convenient (and off the public transportation line). as long as ticket sales are down tom hicks will neglect the team financially, because to him baseball is a business like any other.

this is why the rangers never make moves on trade deadlines, and the reason why we'll always be chasing the wildcard.

why can't mark cuban buy the local team?

Posted by: artt at August 4, 2008 08:47 AM
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