During the Q&A session at Friday night’s Rangers Awards Dinner, Rangers fans asked manager Jeff Banister about the wisdom of turning reliever Matt Bush into a starter, especially based on Texas’s dismal track record of doing so. “Your experience is what happened here,” Banister said. “There are 29 other teams that […]
Matt Bush’s career may have been saved yesterday when it was announced that Martin Perez will, indeed, be ready by opening day. Whether that is actually the case is yet to be seen, though, because rarely does a Ranger come back from injury early which was possible with the presence […]
If anyone is wondering what Prince Fielder is up to now that all he has is all the time in the world and about $190 million for doing nothing with it, he has a new cooking show called Fielder’s Choice, available on Netflix. Here is an article about it. Yes, […]
As T. R. Sullivan reported in this article on texasrangers.com, Jon Daniels said he is sticking with the plan. Now he just has to figure out what that plan is. It appears he is going with a stop-gap rotation, and hoping and praying that Odor and Gallo make major strides, […]
ABD WAS A-OK. Yesterday I recounted Top Ten Moment #2 of the Rangers 2017 season, when Austin Bibens-Dirkx outdueled Max Scherzer. Here is what I wrote the next day, reposted from June 12, 2017. In 1971, Texas took the team from Washington DC. Forty-six years later, Texas took the […]
Top Ten Moment #2: Austin Bibens-Dirks outduels Max Scherzer. One pitcher won the Cy Young. The other pitcher had no shot at even making a major league rotation when the season started. One team was running away with its division. The other was running in place. So when Max Scherzer […]
I have a dream that one day the Rangers walk hand in hand to the championship podium holding the World Series trophy.
The Texas Rangers don’t have a legitimate starting rotation yet to run out there night after night this summer. But they do have a golf course. As T. R. Sullivan reports on mlb.com, the Rangers are allowing the city of Arlington to use their name in the city’s new golf […]
The Rangers avoided arbitration by agreeing to contracts with Keone Kela, Jake Diekman, and Jurickson Profar. Diekman will make $2.7 million in 2018, Kela $1.2, and Profar a head-scratching $1.05 million for doing nothing much. Kela was injured twice last season and for nearly three months in 2016, but his […]
According to Gerry Fraley in the Dallas Morning News here is the pitcher that the Rangers signed this off-season who will make the biggest impact in 2018.