Yearly Archives: 2020


Turning the page is hard.

This turning of the guard took one more step yesterday with Sam Huff, one of the Rangers top prospects, making his major league debut. Right now, on the current Rangers roster, there are nine players who made their major league debuts in 2020, four of which never played above A-Level. […]


Something to play for.

The Rangers are in a dogfight. They are battling for worst record in baseball. For that, they get the first pick in the draft. While drafting is a crap shoot, the first overall pick has managed to produce some gems. Back in 2014, the Rangers were also in the same position. […]


Baseball returns.

Something weird happened in baseball last night.  It must have been a full moon or something. The Milwaukee Brewers scored 19 runs. The Atlanta Braves scored 29.  And the Texas Rangers scored seven.  Offense was breaking out all over. The Rangers hadn’t won back-to-back games since August 14 and 15. They […]


Not so fast.

Maybe Elvis Andrus isn’t ready to ride into the sunset after all. He will go out fighting, at least. Since the talk of him losing his job surfaced, and his playing time diminished, he found the power button and has found a way to make an impact in a few […]


20-20.

2020, what a year. The first twenty games of the 2020 season, the Rangers went 10-10. The second twenty, they went 3-17.  So, with the first two twenty-game segments completed in 2020, here’s a perfect opportunity to play twenty questions, in no particular order. 1. As they did in 1972 […]


Broken bats.

A rally. Is that too much to ask. A lousy rally. Apparently, it is too much to ask season, especially that last ten games. In the past ten games, the Rangers have scored 32 runs. Simple math tells you that’s 3.2 runs per game. That’s down slightly from the 3.5 […]


Changing of the guard.

Rougned Odor is off the injured list. So is Elvis Andrus. They now reside on the sit-on-the-bench list. It seems the Rangers are finally committed to moving on, or at least seeing what’s out there behind the struggling middle infield duo. It’s about time. And you can’t say they weren’t […]


Cody encouraging.

That’s two encouraging starts in a row from two young pictures. Kyle Cody on Friday and Kolby Allard on Thursday. And even though they both resulted in losses, that’s not important at this point. What is important is finding out who can play major league baseball, and who can’t. You […]


Most overpaid major leaguers.

There are a lot of major leaguers who are vastly overpaid. The industry is filled with .183-hitting shortstops making $15 million per year.  But nobody is more overpaid than Luis Ortiz and Callix Crabbe. They are the Ranger hitting coaches. Texas is 30th of 30 teams in batting average and […]


Tom Terrific.

Back in 1978, I was in college. In June, I had just completed by my sophomore year. Everyone who knew me knew I was a huge Cincinnati Reds fan. Living on my dorm floor my first two seasons were twins David and Mark Block who just so happened to graduate […]