While this is no surprise, it’s also not pleasant to read. It’s also not just coming from remote corners of the internet like RR3. The baseball world knows it: the Rangers are bad and will be bad. MLB.com’s Mike Petriello ranked all thirty major league rosters. Good news. The Rangers […]
Jon Daniels has already gone on record saying the Rangers are not going to pursue any major free agent signings this off-season. And he may very well stick to that. But where it gets somewhat tricky is that they need to have some measure of hope if they are interested […]
At the end of every season, the entire staff of Rangers Rounding 3rd gets together to grade the Rangers for the just completed year. This year it’s an incomplete. There were only 60 games. A short season that was cut even shorter one inning into the third game of the […]
Finally, someone else is getting it. It’s not The Shed that is flawed, it’s the team playing in it. Today on mlb.com, Rangers writer T.R. Sullivan noted this: “The Rangers hit 27 home runs in 30 games at Globe Life Field. The Dodgers and Braves combined for 25 homers over […]
Will Leach of MLB.com addresses each team’s top decision this off-season. Here is what he has to say about the Rangers: “Rangers — Do they trade Lance Lynn? The Rangers look like they’re about to enter an extended reconstruction period, and their best trade piece is Lynn, who has been terrific […]
The Athletic issued its second-annual Pressure Index, which ranks every team’s chances of improving this winter. The Rangers were in their bottom-tier teams labeled, “The Rebuilders Stay Tanking.” They were ranked twenty-seventh least likely to improve. Here’s what the publication had to say: “The Rangers picked the wrong season to open […]
For the ninth time in Texas Rangers history, two Rangers have won Gold Glove awards in the same season. Isiah Kiner-Falefa at third. Joey Gallo in right field. It was the first Gold Glove for each player. The Rangers are used to having an elite glove at third. Adrian Beltre […]
The finalists have been named for the important awards for 2020. Not a single Ranger in sight. That’s not a surprise. In the American League, the only surprise is Mike Trout’s name isn’t one of the three. The finalists are Jose Abreu of the White Sox, DJ LeMahieu of the […]
The Rangers had the eighth worst ERA in baseball in 2020. For that, they’ve hired two pitching coaches. Considering they had the second lowest batting average and second lowest OPS in baseball in 2020, you have to wonder how many hitting coaches they are going to need. Six? It seems […]
Vince Gennaro is the host of a show called “Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR-Style” on MLB Network Radio. He’s the author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball. He is a regular on MLB Network TV studio shows, sharing his deep, well-respected insight on the game of baseball from […]