Baseball is back. Comebacks are back. It’s all so wonderful. Yesterday was a reminder of how incredible the Rangers season was last year. The regular season, that is. All those come-from-behind wins. For the first time in a long time, the Rangers showed the ability to turn around a […]
Spring is about proving oneself and destiny and punching tickets. Chi Chi Gonzalez proved he cannot be trusted to be a major league starting pitcher. And he punched a one-way ticket from Phoenix to Austin. Don’t look for him making the trip back north to Arlington once the season starts. […]
The Rangers Jerseys have now won three days in a row. Even though none of these games matter and absolutely nobody will be named Cy Young or MVP in March, it’s better than losing. Darvish pitched well, which is something to cling on to, since the role of spring is […]
The bats came out yesterday in Arizona. And for the second day in a row, the Rangers Jerseys won a practice game over the White Sox Jerseys. Will Middlebrooks is trying to rekindle a career that started out so promisingly in 2012. Playing third base for Boston, he hit fifteen […]
There are a lot of new world stats floating around baseball. Some are minutia and would require a degree in Advanced Nerdology to understand and appreciate them. Some are downright silly. Like WAR, what is it good for, absolutely nothing. WAR is a well-meaning but totally misguided attempt to codify […]
Keep telling yourself it’s only spring training. Because, the truth is, it’s only spring training. Even so, we are seeing some ugly baseball played by the Rangers Jerseys. Cole Hamels got battered around, and didn’t even make it past the first inning. So that is two games in a row […]
The Rangers just got some great news about their rotation: Andrew Cashner is not going to be ready by opening day.
The Rangers run head first into the World Baseball Classic, playing Team Venezuela tomorrow, with Chi Chi Gonzalez starting. With the uncertainty of the four and five slots in the rotation, Gonzalez is pitching for a major league roster spot. He is the quintessential Quadruple-A player. Great at Triple-A, not […]
The Rangers are now 2-9 in the spring. But, remember, Elvis Andrus has yet to get an at-bat. That should come soon. Followed by a whole lot of Ws. And Es. Here’s an article from T.R. Sullivan on MLB.com about Yu Darvish.
The Rangers rotation has taken a beating of late. It started in 1972 when the Washington Senators moved to Arlington… Wait, fast forward to the present tense Rangers rotation problems. The Rangers’ inability to develop quality pitching in their system (with the exception of the one really good one who is […]
