Yearly Archives: 2021


Training wheels.

The Rangers start camp with a rotation significantly weaker than last season. Kluber, Minor, and Lynn were cause for real hope. You can’t call the 2021 projected rotations one of the worst rotations in Rangers history because, well, it’s the Rangers. Bad pitching is this franchise’s brand. But the challenge […]


Year three for Woodward.

By all accounts, Chris Woodward seems like a good man. Whether he’s a good manager is difficult to determine. Woodward signed a three-year contract to manage the Rangers starting in 2019. This is year three. He started strong, though. In a reversal of the Jeff Banister years, the Woodward-led Rangers […]


New Rangers ballpark damaged in storm.

The freak winter storm that dumped snow and ice on the Metroplex and caused millions of Texans to lose power has damaged Globe Life Field, the Texas Rangers new billion-dollar, publicly-riduculed ballpark. Rangers officials have vowed their new home will be repaired in time for the start of the season. […]


Homegrown.

As is commonly recognized throughout Rangers nation, the current front office has a dismal record when it comes to drafting and developing major league players. Hopefully, with the addition of Chris Young to work under Jon Daniels, that can change. Hopefully, Young can bring success to what has up until […]


Gallo’s spray chart.

Andrew Simon of mlb.com wrote an article yesterday featuring the most unusual spray charts in MLB. One he chose to feature was Joey Gallo’s. Mainly because it is so unusually lopsided. Spray charts indicate where a player hits a ball. Simon chose to feature Gallo’s spray chart because it is […]


Deader ball.

All sorts of questions pop up as the Rangers make their way to Surprise, Arizona, for spring training. One question is, how will the new ball affect Joey Gallo? Here’s a guy who already got it into his head that he cannot hit a home run in the cavernous The […]


Brock Holt.

Maybe a better name for the Rangers new Ballpark is the Arlington Rehabilitation Center. Because they Rangers are piling on the players that desperately need to rehab their careers. Khris Davis, Delino DeShields, Mike Foltynewicz. And now Brock Holt. Texas signed Holt to a minor league deal (so they don’t […]


Looks like rain.

Khris Davis has said he doesn’t like the nickname Krush and doesn’t want it used again. Yet, that’s all the local media has called him. Welcome to Dallas, Khris, where the local media still calls the Cowboys “America’s Team” even though the Cowboys haven’t been relevant for 25 years.  The […]


Folty in the fold.

Some of the talk show hosts on MLB Radio have a running gag. Whenever they want to say the F-word, in order to keep it clean, they substitute Foltynewicz instead. “What in the Foltynewicz was Kevin Cash thinking about pulling Blake Snell in Game 6?” “Why in the Foltynewicz is […]