Rangers Not Interested In Turnbow
Deep within this Dallas Morning News piece, Evan Grant writes that the Texas Rangers are not very interested in acquiring Derrick Turnbow, the reliever who was DFAed yesterday by the Milwaukee Brewers.
Texas GM Jon Daniels said that the team would "do some due diligence" but it doesn't appear that they plan on pursuing the righty reliever.
Aside from the anomaly that was 2005, Turnbow's problem has always been his inability to find the plate. His terrible start in 2008 was compounded by the fact that the strikeouts, which has been Turnbow's calling card throughout his career, became infrequent.
Posted by Paul Moro
Can we just take care of this with a blanket statement? "Thirty teams not interested in Turnbow".
Posted by: onephine | May 03, 2008 at 08:29 PM
Would he really be worse than Dustin Nippert or Kaz Fukumori?
More proof Daniels has no clue how to build a team.
Posted by: Michael | May 03, 2008 at 09:43 PM
Nippert is alot younger and was once a top prospect in the D-backs orginization as a starter. Turnbow has now been in the majors for how long with limited success in the pen. I fail to see the correlation. Fukumori has options avaliable and is in AAA...once again i fail to see it.
Posted by: laxtonto | May 04, 2008 at 02:06 AM
Turnbow has awesome stuff and showed that in 2005 with the 39 saves and below 2.00 ERA. But the problem is that his control has left him and now he's walking way too many guys and getting into too many hitters counts. IF he got his control back he could be a very good middle reliever, that's why anyone would be interested in him.
Then again, he's also a headcase who has openly complained about his job despite the fact that his demotions were completely of his own doing.
Posted by: scribbletone | May 04, 2008 at 10:59 AM