Bark In The Park: DJ Peters' Need To Please Has Rangers Coaches Comparing Him To A Puppy 사설토토
ARLINGTON — It's been a month since the Rangers got heap of a man DJ Peters off waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's created a small bunch of huge homers, which was normal. He's made a few film-commendable gets in the outfield, which, without a doubt, has been a charming astonishment.
What they still can't seem to see: Hard proof that Peters can hit reliably enough to be a regular supporter. On Saturday, when requested an assessment on Peters' first month, administrator Chris Woodward rather followed off into an anecdote about his excitement, which conjured a correlation with a doggy. Pups sure are adorable. Be that as it may, they can likewise be dangerous.
"[Hitting teacher Luis Ortiz] considered him a Labrador retriever," Woodward said. "He just continually needs to satisfy you and needs to learn. You toss something at him and his tail is swaying and his tongue is out the entire time. He's simply tenacious. He's continually needing to sort out certain things in all out attack mode side.
"This person contends better compared to anyone," he added. "Yet, he accomplishes have some work to do."
Concerning that: What the right-gave hitting Peters should do is squash lefties. At the point when the Rangers snatched him, he was around three weeks into a swing change that prompted 41 successive swings against lefties without a miss. That was in the lower levels, however. At the major association level, he has battled to keep up.
In the Rangers' 5-2 misfortune to Houston on Saturday, he was hitless in three at-bats, two of them against lefty Framber Valdez. Since coming to Texas he is 5 for 31 (.161) versus Lefties and is hitless in his last 12 at-bats against them. Indeed, it's a little example size, yet it features that there is still work to do.
A case recently in Cleveland summarized it. With sprinters on base and Nathaniel Lowe at hand, Peters got excessively forceful against an almost certain lefty to pitch around him. Peters, who was searching for a fastball, rather swung at three breaking balls and afterward grounded out delicately.
"We talked it through subsequently. He disclosed to me his blueprint and he adhered to it," Woodward said. "Furthermore, I advised him 'That is amazing, you adhered to it.' But perhaps that approach had a little blemish in it. I gave him another things to contemplate. He wasn't probably going to get a fastball early. He needed everything. He needs to learn."
Iron man: With Jonah Heim on the COVID-IL and the Rangers worried about Yohel Pozo's down calling capacity, Jose Trevino has worked more earnestly than any Texas catcher in almost 10 years.
Trevino began for the 6th successive day Saturday and the seventh consecutive game (after Sunday's deferment). The last Rangers catcher to begin six straight days: A.J. Pierzynski in 2013. The last to get at least seven continuous games: Gerald Laird in 2007.
Woodward said the environment controlled Globe Life Field makes it more feasible for a Rangers catcher to pull this sort of obligation.
"I don't have the foggiest idea how Pudge [Rodriguez] did it that load of years," Woodward said. "However, it helps that we are inside. We just couldn't do this across the road."
Momentarily: INF Andy Ibanez's 11-game hitting streak reached a conclusion when he left the game after two hitless at-bats because of snugness in his left hamstring. Ibanez will be reconsidered Sunday, yet Woodward said he was "not very hopeful." ... OF Evan Carter, the Rangers' second-round choice in 2020 who has been out since June with a back physical issue, won't get back to the dynamic program at Class A Down East this season. The arrangement presently is for him to be prepared for the fall Instructional League in Arizona. ... INF Maximo Acosta, the Rangers' No. 8 possibility in The Dallas Morning News' middle of the season rankings, went through thoracic outlet disorder a medical procedure on Wednesday in Dallas and will be out for the year. Acosta, 18, was playing his first expert season in the tenderfoot level Arizona Complex League.