Maybe Cole Hamels loves Texas. Maybe this is the team he wants to spend the rest of his career with. Maybe this is his subtle way of ensuring he won’t be traded. That’s about the only way to explain his sudden and dramatic transformation to Matt Moore. In his […]
Rougned Odor hasn’t had too many good days in the last two years. His downfall started in September of 2016; he slid all the way through the entire 2017 season; and he continued sinking through the first two and a half months of 2018. It was a major league […]
It was a record-setting night. And a record-ending night. Starting with the temperature at game time, all all-time high of 111 degrees. And that was the most enjoyable thing about last night. Austin Bibens-Dirkx broke the Rangers team record for most runs allowed in relief, with eleven. The quintessential […]
The Willie Calhoun era has begun. Just like Nomar Mazara two seasons ago, Calhoun was called up earlier than planned due to an injury. Ironically, to Mazara. Calhoun’s arrival was much anticipated. Most wondered why he didn’t start the season with the Rangers, or why it took an injury […]
The day after the All-Star Game, Rangers great Michael Young, commenting on the ten-home-run barrage he had just witnessed, tweeted that it’s pretty obvious something is up with the balls they use during those games. He said the two hardest drives he ever hit in his career come in […]
I’ve always joked that unearned runs matter only to a player’s parents and his agent. Same holds for most of the new generation stats. There are so many that they will make your head spin. For a hundred years, baseball got along just fine with batting average and on-base percentage […]
The Home Run Derby spilled over into a second night in DC. In the year of the strikeout or home run, both were on full display in the All-Star Game. Both teams combined for a record ten home runs, shattering the six that were hit in the 1971 classic. […]
The deflation of the talent pool continues. In 2010, the Texas Rangers had six players make the All-Star team roster: Josh Hamilton and Vlad Guerrero as starters along with Cliff Lee, Neftali Feliz, Ian Kinsler and Elvis Andrus The 2011 All-Star team featured five Rangers: Adrian Beltre and Josh […]
Carlos Tocci getting tagged out at home by a good ten feet put an end to the Rangers first half misery in appropriate style. It was a fitting end to the game that ended the proverbial first half of the season. The Rangers limp into the All-Star break losing […]
A list of fifteen really boring things: 1) From 1977 to 2011, the flag of Libya was simply all green. 2) The dot on the top of the “I” and the “j” is called a tittle. 3) According to the Guiness Book of Records, the most stolen book in public […]
