The Dodgers rotation has so many injuries, they are regularly having a bullpen day, where the entire game is manned by relief pitchers. They did that last night against the Rangers. That is by design. The Rangers rotation has so many Rangers, they regularly have a bullpen day as […]
According to Sportrac, which tracks this sort of thing, the Texas Rangers have the fourteenth largest payroll in baseball for 2018: $143,911,000 million. For their money, the Rangers are not getting their money’s worth. Look at the team Jon Daniels has assembled for nearly $144 million: The Rangers have […]
You have to give the Rangers credit. At least they are finding inventive ways to lose ball games. After leaving a franchise-record seventeen runners on base to lose Saturday’s game, a balk that was so elusive neither the home plate or first base umpires saw it did in the […]
It’s almost impossible to lose a game like that. How do you not win when the other team walks ten of your batters, hits five of them, gives up five base hits, and blows a potential bases-loaded inning-ending double play? How do you have twenty base runners and come […]
“I thought he pitched well,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said of Doug Fister’s performance last night. “There were some ground balls that got through.” Fister pitched so well he allowed five runs in six innings and fell to 1-7 with a 4.50 ERA. And the reason he lost is because […]
Lately, the Rangers TV announcers have been making a big deal about the offense being second in the American League in walks. It’s the patient approach. They are showing incredible patience. What great strides they are making as hitters. Texas had drawn the second-most walks to the Yankees in […]
Jurickson Profar had a night. His first multi-home run game, and his career high in RBIs with five. The former number-one prospect in all of the world has been mostly a disappointment in his career. But, in his defense, he has been jacked around, moved from position to position, […]
Chirinos blasted one in the fourth. Profar in the sixth. Choo in the seventh to tie the game. Beltre in the eighth to take the lead. Gallo in the eighth as well, to put Texas up three. The Rangers hit a season-high five home runs. They got a rare […]
The Rangers first pick in the draft was a high school pitcher named Cole Winn. You have to love the name. Yesterday we looked at the pitchers chosen by the Rangers in the Jon Daniels era. Today, here is a look at the position players selected in Rangers drafts […]
Today is Major League Baseball’s amateur draft. For many young men, it’s the day their dreams come true. For a few franchises, it’s the day their fortunes turn. The Rangers are smack dab in the middle of the drafting order, getting the fifteenth pick in the first round. Here […]
