Oh, one more thing. Continuing from yesterday. Once again, here are all the Rangers who have made the Baseball Prospectus Top 101 prospects since they started ranking them in 2007. This will, again, point out how inexact of a science the baseball draft is, and the business of grading prospects […]
How accurate is the Baseball Prospectus list of Top 101 Prospects? Let’s look back for the Rangers at every year since they started it in 2007. Here is a breakdown by year: This just goes to show that drafting prospects, and ranking prospects, is an inexact science.
Baseball Propectus released its annual Top 101 Prospects list for 2019. Four Rangers made it. Leody Taveras, outfielder, at 47. Bubba Thompson, outfielder, at 48. Juan Pablo Martinez, outfielder, at 78. Anderson Tejada, shortstop, at 83. Interestingly, none of the overabundance of pitching the Rangers have been obsessing on acquiring […]
The Rangers had a hole at third base. Their last guy decided to retire. He was pretty good. Then he had to go and get old. So, how do you fill the Grand Canyon-sized hole left behind? The Rangers could have gone big and filled it with Manny Machado, who […]
Last season the Texas Rangers and Cincinnati Reds had identical records—67 wins, 95 losses. Both teams had managers who had never managed before, fired them, and replaced them with managers who have never managed before. Both teams had the second-worse starters ERAs in their respective leagues. Cincinnati’s was 5.02, Texas’s […]
The lead story in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News sports section was about what surface the Rangers are going to install in the new Ballpark. Real turf or artificial turf? Of course, every baseball purist wants it to be the real deal. Grass. The way baseball was meant to be played. On […]
The Minnesota Twins announced today that they have officially given up on the 2019 season with the signing of free agent left-handed pitcher Martin Perez to a one-year contract. The Twins are paying Perez $3.5 million in 2019, thus proving once and for all that major league baseball teams do, […]
Sometimes a picture says it all. This one sums up the 2018 season better than any words possibly could.
It’s the off-season and I am always willing to let someone else do the heaving lifting. So, with that in mind, and totally without permission, here is yesterday’s Inbox Q&A from T. R. Sullivan on mlb.com, followed by my responses. Have we gotten a feel about how manager Chris Woodward feels […]
You know things are as bad as they seem for Manny Machado when his agent has to release a statement saying things aren’t as bad as they seem for Manny Machado. When the off-season started, Machado’s agent, Dan Lozano, declared his client was seeking a contract of ten years and […]
