One week left. Thank goodness. Spring training is like Mississippi. No matter how much fun it’s going to be at the beach, you still have to drive through Mississippi to get to Florida. There are four practice games in Surprise, an off day Thursday. Then two practice games at the […]
Rangers fans have waited for this moment for a long time, but Profar is finally turning heads in spring training. It’s not the Profar you are thinking about, though. Juremi. Not Jurickson. In nine games, and twelve at-bats, kid brother Juremi is hitting .333 with an OPS of .917. […]
Ugly baseball returned to Surprise. In a spring that has seen a lot of bad baseball from Rangers Jerseys, last night’s game was perhaps of the worst. It was 10-0 before the Dodgers allowed the Rangers two pity runs in the bottom of the ninth. The Rangers failed on the mound, […]
How do you say “mercy rule” in Spanish? That’s how dominate USA was over its step child Puerto Rico in the championship game of the World Baseball Classic. It starts and ends with pitching, as it always does. And Marcus Stroman was at his facing-the-Texas-Rangers-in-the-playoffs best. Puerto Rico got one hit […]
The names roll off the tongue like a who’s who on the witness protection program. All the greats: Beck, Mendez, Hernandez, Puello, Lerud, De Leon. It was an exhibition season classic. Practice-game minor league baseball at its best. Double-A and Triple-A Rangers hitting off Double-A and Triple-A White Sox pitching. Who wouldn’t […]
The Rangers bullpen was in mid-season form last night, blowing a lead, then losing a game. The culprits were Álvarez and Alvarez. With accent, without out. With is Darío, who the Rangers picked up from Atlanta last year along with Lucas Harrell. Harrell is now throwing his hundred pitches an […]
In two weeks, the season starts. The silliness of spring training ends, the folly of using closers in the third inning ends, the sleep-inducing practice of giving three at-bats per game to Triple-A players ends. Baseball begins. The Rangers have two weeks to find two starters to round out […]
This is fun baseball to watch. The United States finally made it to the final four in the World Baseball Classic. Good players are finally taking the WBC seriously enough to want to compete. Maybe this will get others to raise their hand as well in future WBC tournaments, if […]
Yesterday, Joey Gallo got two hits. This might be the best news from Surprise this spring. Joey Gallo is making better contact. Every Joey Gallo hit gets the Rangers one step closer to turning him into Jose Quintana, or someone of his ilk. Keep it up, Mr. Gallo. This team […]
MLB.com’s T.R. Sullivan ponders the Rangers eventual opening day twenty-five-man roster. No surprises really, other than his Pollyannaish nod to Chi Chi and Nick. Yes, they have an outside chance. They will start the season outside of Austin in a town called Round Rock. Here is his article.
