form his espn blog

keith law has a blog post with some rangers notes up....

First Post

http://www.withleather.com/

I cant believe about Manny....................................  Alexzander that is.........................................................................................

NO suprising names. except for maybe Pujols...

We will see if this supposed leak is right.

In the chat that is going on right now, this was posted at the begining. Interesting stuff. It is the insider portion though

John (Dallas): Since nobody cares about the Rangers, it can be slightly more difficult to find info on their pitching prospects without shelling out thirty bucks a year to baseball sites. I was wondering if I could get your takes on the ML potential of guys like McCarthy, Gabbard, Hurley, Volquez, and since the target date for legitimacy seems to be 2010, guys a couple of years away like Kiker, Beavan, and Michael Main. Thanks for your input on the most overlooked perennially suffering club in the Major League.

 Keith Law: (1:06 PM ET ) Gabbard's a 4A guy. Volquez has a decent arm but little feel; he's young but I have a bad feeling about him. Hurley's a #2/3 type, fastball's a little true, but he's moved very quickly. I won't give up on McCarthy yet - guy had plus command, then goes to Texas and has minus command? Unless he's hurt, I'm betting on a bounceback. Kiker and Main are possible 1/2 types, Beavan's a 2/3, word is they've cleaned his delivery up a little bit so there's not so much recoil in it. Kiker's curveball is one of the best in the minors. So things are looking up, but it's going to take another two to three years before the Rangers can harvest this talent.

the Yanks have decided they might negotiate a contract extension with A-Rod during this season, as long as he doesnt opt out after the year.  This way they can just tack an extension on the existing contract and keep him and the Rangers 81 million.  F him F them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2933023

http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=1009724

just got done reading this article about the red sox signing carlos almanzars' son.  How does the process work with these guys?? Is it just a free for all and whomever throws the most money at these guys signs them, or are there some sort of rules or priority given to bad teams to sign these guys.  it just makes me so damn happy to know that the red sox have gotten another top prospect, although i would assume that a 16 year old kid is a rather unknown. Anyway.... VOMIT

whys is he here, seriously the guy has done nothing this year, his ERA in AAA is 84.5, he has no business being in a close game, he has to be on this roster for cultural balance, there is no other answer   WTF                                                                                                                                                

does anyone know if the whole thirsty thursday $3 miller lites was a one time thing, or if this is the most genius marketing ploy to make our current teams play acceptable to anebriated fans???  im all for it and i think the price of beer should be correlated to the overall record of the team.                                                                            

Keith LAws latest posted a 3 am this morning has the rangers taking alderson at 17 and Borbon at 24... wow i hope this isnt the case, especially since his has them passing on both harvey and porcello at 17 and porcello again at 24... man i am nervous                                                                                                                                                      

this is what Keith law had to say in his blog yesterday about the most important day that this organization has seen maybe ever..

* The Rangers' top options at No. 17 are now Beavan and Tim Alderson. Wherever Beavan goes, he'll probably command top-10 money.

Beaven or Harvey sounds good, it would be nice to have them both there and have our choice of the two...