MLB.com’s 2018 player preview is out. It lists the top 804 players, ranked in order from best to worse. It’s meant as a guide for fantasy baseball. It’s a good look at talent levels among the league. The top Ranger comes in at number 46, Elvis Andrus. Who would have […]
Pitchers and catchers report in a few days. Full squad workouts are about a week away. And Jake Arrieta doesn’t have a team. Neither do J. D. Martinez, Mike Moustakas, Eric Hosmer, Alex Cobb or Greg Holland. Nor do Edwardo Nuñez, Lance Lynn, or Jonathan Lucroy. Andrew Cashner is still […]
Yu Darvish, ex-starter for the Rangers who, for some reason, was either widely loved or widely hated, is now a Chicago Cub. He gets $21 million per year, plus incentives. In five major seasons, almost all with Texas, he has a 3.42 ERA and a .571 winning percentage. During the […]
Until opening day actually happens, there will be seemingly daily articles trying to predict the Rangers opening day twenty-five-man roster. Here is the first of year, from T. R. Sullivan of mlb.com. Of course, his guess here is as good as anyone else’s. It really comes down to if Bartolo […]
Now we wait. We wait for pitchers and catchers to arrive. We wait for pre-season picks. We wait for last-minute signings. We wait for the season to actually begin. We wait for baseball. Because right now there is nothing,
It appears the Rangers are going into the season with the expectations that they are going to surprise a lot of people. That they are the underdogs. The 5’4” point guard, the 7’3” jockey. The Buster Douglas. In an article on mlb.com yesterday, T.R. Sullivan gave a peek under the […]
The Rangers are completing their We’re The Underdog Team of 2018 So Pull For Us Tour by signing reliever Seung-hwuan Oh. Oh is coming off a year when he was 1-6 with a 4.10 ERA and a WHIP of 1.339. He started the season as the Cardinals closer, but lost […]
Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor said he liked the fact that the Rangers are going into the 2018 seasons as underdogs. “I like when people say that. That makes us play better and play harder,” he explained. Odor was, statistically, the worst player in major league baseball last season, and, […]
With the news that the Texas Rangers have signed Bartolo Colon to a minor league deal, it looks like this is the year the Rangers will have a Turn Back The Clock night every night. Turn it back to 2005 when Bartolo Colon was 21-8 and won the Cy Young […]
Spring training is two weeks away, and it’s time to start looking at the season ahead, bleak as it may be. Here is an article from T. R. Sullivan yesterday on mlb.com that talks about Choo and his mindset on DHing going into the season.