Without making a trade or making any significant upgrades to the roster since yesterday, the Rangers playoff chances went up dramatically. That’s because Major League Baseball has decided to jump the shark and allow sixteen of its thirty teams to make the playoffs. Not ten. Sixteen. The top two teams […]
The 30-man roster is set. The season is about to begin. The virus is raging throughout the country. Will this crazy thing get pulled off? Even crazier is, Leody Taveras, who has never played above Double-A, will be on the opening day roster. Good for him. The twenty-one-year-old switch-hitting outfielder […]
This will tell you how the league looks at the Rangers new stadium. Here is the actual tweet the Colorado Rockies posted yesterday before the game. They quickly deleted it. But the statement is made. While this might be a really beautiful new ballpark on the inside, it’s an eyesore […]
It’s time for the annual RR3 predictions. So far, after six years of prognosticating, this site has been one-hundred percent right in predicting no World Series championships for the Texas Rangers. Could this be the seventh year in a row? It will be an interesting season to say the least. […]
With four days until opening day, the Rangers roster is getting closer to being set. Yesterday the Rangers sent nineteen players to their training site. That, according to T.R. Sullivan of mlb.com, leaves them with 39 players. That means nine players are playing the next four days for a roster […]
Edinson Volquez isn’t retiring after all. He is pitching out of the Rangers bullpen. In past years, that’s the next closest thing. Volquez was informed yesterday that he has made the team and will be on the opening day roster. Last year, he was in the Rangers starting rotation, and […]
While everyone is talking about how Isiah Kiner-Falefa is taking over Summer Camp, the one person who is being overlooked is Scott Heinemann. He is batting .500, or close to it, according to Jered Sandler. Heinemann tripled in the inter-squad game yesterday to drive in the first run in a […]
One week until opening day. The Rangers seem to have answered some questions about their infield. Todd Frazier appears to be shifting across the diamond to first. Isiah Kiner-Falefa will play third. Basically Kiner-Falefa has come in and taken Ronald Guzman’s and Greg Bird’s jobs. Neither first baseman turned any […]
Does anyone have worse luck than Willie Calhoun? After years of being yoyo-ed from Triple A to the big leagues, he was finally given the starting left field job for 2020. Then he gets his jaw smashed by a fastball in spring training and he is going to miss, well, […]
No, it wasn’t an exhibition game. It was something even less meaningful. An inter-squad scrimmage. Really, not even that. It was glorified batting practice. Major league pitchers throwing to major league hitters but with coaches in the outfield and Joey Gallo batting every inning. All they needed was ghost runners […]
