JR Sullivan: Rangers working on acquiring Christian Guzman

[EricB]

http://trsullivan.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/07/rangers_acquire_guzman.html

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*tr, not jr

[EricB]

Apologies, posted too quick.

Also its Cristian not Christian.

[DesignatedT]

Guzman is solid.

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Apologies, posted too quick.

Also its Cristian not Christian.

:lol All good, I'm actually his son believe it or not

[EricB]

Yeah I saw that, its awesome he's on twitter.

The Cardinal's beat writers are CONSTANTLY writing on there, and the Rangers have just your dad and thats about it.

I wish there was more.


Getting Guzman to fill in down the stretch for Kinsler and relieve I would think Andrus is just awesome.

Now they can dump the dead weight that is Arias.

To think they could've had Robinson Cano :depressed

[EricB]

Guzman is solid.

Exactly just like Cantu.

VERY solid vets surrounding young studs like Cruz Ham Elvis and others.

Perfect formula. Only thing personally I'd want woould be another lefty reliever in the bully and that would be about it.

Little worried going forward with just one in there and the one being an older vet in Oliver..

[gaKNOW!blee]

:lol All good, I'm actually his son believe it or not

For the last five minutes I've been trying to figure out how the hell you are Cristian Guzman's son :lmao

Im a dumbass :lol

[Melmart1]

Ah, the power of Twitter. Jim Bowden posted this:

Nationals get two pitching prospect for Cristian Guzman...Bill Ladson reporting they are good prospect but not ML ready
http://twitter.com/JimBowdenXMFOX/status/19934676026

Then a Rangers prospect at AA posted this around the same time, he is a good SP prospect: Got a really weird feeling right now like something is gonna happen.

http://twitter.com/RTusk40/status/19934326411

Could be coincidence, and I hope it is. Seems two good pitching prospects is steep to pay for Guzman. Makes me wonder exactly how bad Kinsler's injury really is.

[Melmart1]

Yeah I saw that, its awesome he's on twitter.

The Cardinal's beat writers are CONSTANTLY writing on there, and the Rangers have just your dad and thats about it.

I wish there was more.


Getting Guzman to fill in down the stretch for Kinsler and relieve I would think Andrus is just awesome.

Now they can dump the dead weight that is Arias.

To think they could've had Robinson Cano :depressed

The Rangers have a ton of people tweeting.

@aandro
@JameyNewberg
@lonestarball
@LoneStarDugout
@Evan_P_Grant

and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I know there are more, I follow a ton of them.

[EricB]

Damn, didn't ever see that. I follow usually Rangers guys that are retweeted by others or on Follow Fridays like today.

Thanks!!

[Melmart1]

Damn, didn't ever see that. I follow usually Rangers guys that are retweeted by others or on Follow Fridays like today.

Thanks!!

No problemo. I'll check my follow list and see who I missed.

I am @PadawanWriter if any Rangers fans want to follow. I talk a lot of sports, especially Rangers. Probably 90% Rangers/baseball. The rest is nonsense and puns, haha. Oh, and I have a filthy mouth sometimes, you have been warned. :lol

[EricB]

So your Ken Rosenthal but a female and focused on the Rangers :)

[Melmart1]

Hahaha, I wish. Besides, I tweet a lot of Star Wars stuff too, that automatically makes me cooler than Rosenthal.

Oh yeah, follow @RangerBlake, he works in the front office. And @rangerstvjosh is Josh Lewin, the broadcast guy. Tom Grieve, aka TAG doesn't tweet, but somebody made a hilarious parody of this fact, @TagDontTweet is really funny.

Oh, and @scottrlucas and @ProfessorParks are both VERY knowlegeable about Rangers prospects.

[Melmart1]

Oops. It's @NewbergReport, not Jamey Newberg.

Oh another one is @JeffWilson_FWST. That should be enough to overdose you on Rangers stuff.

[Melmart1]

Well, Ryan Tatusko is definitely one of the prospects going. I was hoping the other one was Arias, or even Blanco. No way the Rangers stick with 3 UIs. But I read that both prospects were pitchers.

[EricB]

JOSH LEWIN!!! CJ Wilson tweeted me that Josh was on but couldn't remember his twitter name.

I told CJ we needed Kinsler on as well and he said it would be nothing but gibberish and illegal responses to 16 year old girls :lmao

[Melmart1]

Tanner Roark is the other pitcher going to Washington.

[Melmart1]

Interesting, this from Evan Grant via Twitter:

Evan_P_Grant: Cristian Guzman has 10/5 rights and has until Saturday to accept trade to #Rangers. Texas reportedly sending Ryan Tatusko, Tanner Roark.

http://twitter.com/Evan_P_Grant/status/19940376520

[EricB]

So I guess he can't join the team till tomorrow due to the 10-5 rule

[EricB]

Nats person just tweeted he accepted the trade...

[DesignatedT]

Good trade. Rangers loadin up for that ws run. can't believe yankees landed berkman though.

[sribb43]

Much better than rolling out Blanco or Arias. :lmao at Arias going on the DL with a stiff back