deGrom won\u2019t pitch in this series<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that are positive,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cIt\u2019s moving in the right direction. I\u2019m optimistic when I\u2019m seeing our best players out on the field doing baseball activity. That is very encouraging. Having these guys back and finding out you know what this team really looks like healthy is exciting to think about.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is always a but with this Rangers team. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ve also been playing really good baseball with guys that we probably weren\u2019t assuming are going to be everyday players and they\u2019re performing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And now for the details. Like a doctor with a good bedside manner, we\u2019ll start with what is truly encouraging.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his absence, Rangers right-handed relievers compiled a 6.33 ERA and allowed opponents a .327 weighted on-base average entering Friday. Both numbers ranked in the bottom tier among\u00a0MLB bullpens in that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need Junis back,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cThere\u2019s no getting around that. I mean, not having Junis for a minute, it\u2019s been tough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And now for the other\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter these next seven days, we\u2019ll see what it looks like, but, again, this is a bunch of unknowns,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cThis is what the doctors we talked to recommended, to take seven days off, then build up these seven days and see how he feels. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to predict what happens after seven days. I have no idea what tomorrow is going to look like. That\u2019s just because we\u2019ve gone backwards a ton, right? There had been a couple good days and then a setback. So hopefully tomorrow there\u2019s no setback, and he\u2019s ready to take some potential ground ball work on the field.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bottom line: As the Rangers enter a stretch which will determine if they are buyers or sellers, if they are going to make their case to buy, it\u2019s going to come without Seager in the lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s hard to find that encouraging.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 All around Skip Schumaker on Friday afternoon, prior to a brief Georgia downpour, there were positive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,89744,89902],"class_list":["post-377548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-tp-texas-rangers","tag-tp-corey-seager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}