Texas Rangers vs. LA Angels Game Preview & Insights

Another really interesting one to hear, uh, Craig coming up, I think with the Texas Rangers tonight, who are taking on the angels. And you and I talked about Detmers. I really thought he was going to be traded. And ever since that moment, he has been awful. I mean, it just, you want to talk about a guy that looks completely uninterested. I don't know if he was really hoping he was going to be traded or what was happening there, but it's the angels. You can't fault the guy for that. Uh, but Mackenzie Gore first start back off of, I believe fraternity leave. This is his first game, but it's a huge game. It's in the, uh, LA and the Rangers very much alive. And you gotta love when a guy like, you know, DeGrom invokes is no trade clause and says, I have no desire to go to Atlanta. I, I want to, I think we can win here. That's gotta play well in the clubhouse here too. No. Yeah. I saw the angels play this weekend, Joe, they don't have a terrible offense. It seems to me that four or five guys in that offense I saw, and I was on the pregame and postgame for all three games that they played. Uh, they do have a pretty good top of the lineup, a pretty good middle of the lineup. Trout is still a good player. He's playing well. Uh, Detmers is okay. The issue Joe zero pitching zero zero. Like when I say zero, it is zero. I saw this, uh, kid Urania pitch this weekend and he's been really good and he had a bad start. Uh, Joe, I'm not backing the angels the rest of the way. It's, it's a better way to play the angels for me is as long as they're not up in any game. Like let's say you're looking at one, one in the second, one, one in the third, nothing, nothing in the fourth. You just blast the other team halfway through the game. That's the way that I would play it. Yeah. Their bullpen is awful. They, uh, they went to the catcher yesterday. Uh, Heineman, he was throwing Ephus pitches at 40 miles an hour. They, um, are playing toward next year. They're playing a lot of young guys. Uh, three guys, I think made their debut against the Marlins this weekend. Joe, there's nothing wrong with the team doing this, but you'd be crazy to back them now, uh, in the steel cage match of death between the A's and the angels. I don't know who I would take. I mean, these are two horrendous teams, but my guess is if you're asking me between those two, I think I still would take the angels because the A's don't have Nick Kurtz and the angels do have like trout. So if you're looking to fade one of those two teams, I keep on fading the A's mostly fading the angels based on the matchups. But my goodness, Joe, I've seen, uh, almost every team play now, either on TV or in person this season, the angels, unfortunately are right there, uh, right at the bottom, like right at the bottom of the league with a lot of those other teams. They're awful. Now, the good news for Texas is they've got a four game set beginning tonight with the angels. Then they go to Sacramento, right? They take off the athletics back to back, uh, winning situations here. Then they come home and take on the nationals and then the angels come back to town after that. So the next, uh, the next four series for the, uh, for Texas could set them up pretty well into making a run for this. And I'm going to be very into me. Does do the Rangers have the bullpen? Do they have enough arms back there that can hold it down? I think of all day, I think the Grom, I think, uh, obviously tonight with Gore, I think they have the starting pitching. I believe that the bats are going to come around, but to me, it's all about the back end of that bullpen. Can we trust them? Because if you can't beat the next three or four series that, I mean, the angels twice, the athletics and the nationals at home, then you ought to just hand it. You ought to just, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like shouldn't, yeah. Shouldn't Texas go like seven and three in the next 10 Joe, that's a great point. So what I'm realizing that that home schedule and on, and they do have a really good ninth inning kid, Jacob lats, but you're right beyond that. It's hard. It's hard to get to the ninth inning with Texas. I totally agree with you there. Uh, but yeah, but yeah, this, wow, that schedule really sets up for them well. And, and, uh, I w and I, and I, again, I, I think Houston has done such a good job jumping back in that. I have to just acknowledge that I was wrong about them, but I could absolutely see those two teams, Houston and Texas. And if I'm not mistaken, I think they play each other the last three games of the season. So, uh, going right down to the end in September, I do not give up on Texas Seattle. I'm giving up after the weekend. That's it.