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"Your excited? You should feel my nipples!" Evan Grant, Jeff Wilson and Jamey Newberg have all of those ridiculous numbers like the Rangers' ERA during their 12-game win streak. The number of wins and quality starts compared to the rest of the league. The Rangers' record with Josh Hamilton. Mike Napoli's catcher ERA. The Rangers having three sub-3.00 ERA starters. Alexi Ogando's top-10 ERA.
Frankly, it's gotten boring. The numbers don't lie. Ball don't lie. The Rangers are a tough out right now and if your team is in the way of the buzzsaw, just pray to scrap out a couple of runs and force the Rangers to eke it out. No one's hotter.
The streak was pushed to 12 as the Rangers beat the California Angels 7-0 behind eight scoreless from Ogando.
If I can talk a little about the Angels. For years, they were the cream of the crop in the AL West even though Seattle had its run in the early 2000s and the Athletics defied all logic with a few runs with Moneyball.
However, the Angels set the bar high. They spent a little, but still made heady moves acquiring guys like Scott Spiezio, Kevin Appier and Tim Salmon, and developing youngsters like Francisco Rodriguez, John Lackey, Scot Shields and Jarrod Washburn and letting those guys all go at the right time. They won a World Series with Adam Kennedy and David Eckstein up the middle.
The Angels were ridiculously good at putting together a team. The last four years or so, there's been a sea change. As far as how a team is constructed and the fiscal accountability, the Angels might be one of the most mediocre of teams.
They've thrown mad cash at Vernon Wells, Torii Hunter, Bobby Abreu and Gary Mathews Jr. and, relatively speaking, have struck out on all of them. Scott Kazmir was a bust. '
The youngsters that were supposed to carry this franchise into the next decade -- Erick Aybar, Howie Kendrick, Kendry Morales, Casey Kotchman, Brandon Wood -- have all either underwhelmed, gotten injured or turned into busts. Outside of Mike Trout, who on their team really gets your goat in terms of young players.
Jeff Weaver is great. No doubt. However, this is the same team that's attempted to spend like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox on players that both teams are not concerned in acquiring. Essentially, they're paying premium for second- and third-tier players.
It's the Rangers, instead, that have acquired Adrian Beltre, Cliff Lee, Bengie Molina and Mike Napoli. There is a reason that the Rangers are better right now. It's pretty clear.
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