The Rangers have announced that they’ve placed outfielder Carlos Gomez on the 10-day DL after having a cyst on his right shoulder excised. To take his place on the active roster, the Rangers have recalled infielder Phil Gosselin from Triple-A Round Rock. Gomez has not played since last Sunday, but the Rangers were hopeful until recently that a DL stint wouldn’t be necessary. Delino DeShields and Drew Robinson figure to continue to play center until Gomez returns. Here’s more from the West divisions.
- The Padres have optioned outfielder Hunter Renfroe to Triple-A El Paso, Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune tweets. Jabari Blash will take Renfroe’s place on the active roster. Renfroe, a former top prospect, was batting a respectable .230/.285/.443 as the Padres’ regular right fielder, but was hitting just .189/.286/.243 in the past two weeks. He seems like a good bet to return once rosters expand in September.
- The Astros recently fired at least eight scouts, as Peter Gammons tweeted yesterday. These firings are a bit surprising coming from an organization whose big-league team is currently thriving thanks to the contributions of a number of young, homegrown players. GM Jeff Luhnow, though, says the team’s scouting division will remain about the same size going forward, and that the area is being realigned, as Jake Kaplan of the Houston Chronicle writes. “This is not a cutback in scouting,” says Luhnow. “We are reconfiguring within and across the three scouting departments – international, domestic and pro.” Luhnow added that he expects the team will make new scouting hires.
Eight scouts fired. There’s got to be a story there…
I agree
Probably a sign that Crane needs to take a loss on his taxes next year and wants the team to go into rebuild mode again. Fire sale to start this offseason.
Complete nonsense.
You’re an idiot
Most were in international scouting. The Astros, like most teams, are not going to need as large of an international staff with the amount they can spend slashed to just $4.75-5.75 million.
Many teams employ 3rd party scouts internationally with just a few full-time cross checkers that were responsible for large areas. The Astros had multiple full-time scouts. Those are a big chunk of the guys that were let go.
Yeah the Astros have had a few homegrown prospects contribute, but they were picking at the top of the draft. Anyone with the ability to read a mock draft could have done as well if not better. The key is that they failed miserably on 2 out of 3 overall #1 picks too. That is difficult to do. I’m not saying they deserved to be fired over that alone, but it also shows that the Astros scouting is not really great either.
Not signing Aiken was a punt in my opinion. They were satisfied with the #2 pick in 2015 as compensation and it worked. Bregman is better than the options at the top of the 14 draft
Your follow up below is helpful in understanding your point but it is wrong headed. Ends do not justify the means. No way Astros “knew” that pick results in Bregman.
They did know that the field of prospects was deeper and the upper end of those prospects was much better. No matter who they took at #2, they knew that it was going to be a better level of prospect than #1 that year.
Only missed out on Kris Bryant. Appel turned into Giles, so whatever bro. They’ve done pretty dam well else where.
Appel was a throw in in that trade.
Missing on Bryant was a rather huge miss.
Mainly because the Astros could of had an infield of Altuve, Bryant, Bregman and Correa
If they went by consensus, they would have drafted Byron Buxton instead of Correa. They’ve definitely drafted well, with the exception of somehow passing on Bryant.
One of three #1 overall picks being an All Star, 1 being a complete bust and one coming back from TJS with very reduced stuff.
They dont have Brady Aiken. They have Bregman which is acceptable and came as a result of not signing aiken
They took Aiken with the 1st pick in 2014. Not Bregman.
Which is what he stated.
Signing scouts for high five figures per season, to get 200 looks at amateur ballame per season, seems as good of a deal as there is in sports.
I hope Team Theo added one or two of the scouts.
BTW, let us know how the Astros “re-organized” if you ever find out.
Yes a hundred times to that last sentence. But no one ever follows up on these things.
Yeah, where’s jimmertee with his scouting background when you need his expertise?
The Padres should have sent Meyers down along with Renfroe.
Agree Myers is horrendous but owed 83 mil
So much money, and so many strikeouts…
Please send him to the Orioles. 26 years old, a perennial 30HR/20SB player, and signed to a relatively cheap contract.
Pirates should sign all eight of them. The drafting and developyisnthe root cause of them underachieving.
How many scouts does the average team employ?
That’s not the standard to seek. If they’re an average team, they need more scouts, or better ones !
It varies widely. Some as many as 60. Most somewhere around 24-26 including international scouts.
Since when is .230/.285 respectable?
Since the Joey Gallo/Three True Outcomes trend became popular. But I agree, it’s not very good, and his SLG. is the only thing that makes his OPS just okay.
.285 OBP is not a good outcome. Raise that by about 100 and you’re in Adam Dunn territory, the epitome of the three true outcomes.
If renfroe doesn’t develop some discipline he’s goIng to be another dime a dozen corner outfielder with pop. Lucky to be Brandon moss.
Gallo is gonna hit AT LEAST 40 bombs this year and has been well above average the second half! Which team wouldnt take that?
Not to mention that he’s a bad outfielder even though he has a cannon for an arm.
Renfroe
Renfroe has the 2nd best range for a RF in the NL according to Statcast. His problem has been throwing errors, not getting to balls or catching them. He would be a great fit for the Os.
Gallo’s OBP is .329.
When it’s a rookie with 20 HR and 56 extra base hits.
It’s a shame that they replaced him with somebody that’s even worse than him in Blash.