It’s one thing for the hitting coach to sing Wyatt Langford’s praises. Or his manager. But when the pitching coach walks back into the clubhouse after seeing him hit and declares, “I just saw the best player on the field,” and a whole bunch of All-Stars were on that same […]
What happened to Jared Walsh? He finished seventh in Rookie of the Year voting in 2020 while with the Angels. His numbers were pretty impressive, too. He batted .293, had an elite .971 OPS, and an OPS+ of 157. To put that into perspective, only Corey Seager and Evan Carter […]
The Rangers and Giants held a spring training game yesterday and a soccer match broke out. After nine innings, neither Texas or San Francisco could score a run in yesterday’s Cactus League game and the game ended like 99.87 percent of all soccer matches. Nil to nil. Each team managed […]
Spring training is a six-week tease. Its main function was to get starting pitchers built up to go nine innings, going one inning their first start then working up to three their second start, five, then seven, then nine. That plan was hatched back when starters were expected to go […]
The Rangers may not have gotten the new pitcher they need for their rotation, but in a major story that broke first on TexasRangers.com yesterday, it was reported that Dane Dunning has a new pitch. Hey, Rangers fans, take what you can get. He won’t say what the pitch is. […]
It’s the first day of the spring exhibition schedule, what has lately been come to be called the Cactus League. Players in Texas Rangers uniforms go up against players in Kansas City Royals uniforms. For many, it’s the only time they will ever get to wear a major league uniform. […]
When the other catcher on your team is Yadier Molina, you have to resign yourself to knowing you will be the backup catcher. That was Andrew Knizner’s fate as a catcher coming up in the Saint Louis Cardinals minor league system. And when Molina retired after the 2022 season, he […]
The Rangers have three catchers on their forty-man roster. Jonah Heim, Andrew Knizner, and Sam Huff. They will probably carry only two. That probably leaves Sam Huff back in the minor leagues. Poor Sam Huff. Always the odd man out. Forever stuck in Triple-A, the perennial prospect. At twenty-six, he’s certainly […]
MLB is trying a new thing this preseason called Spring Breakout. It’s like the Futures Game but concentrated to an organization’s best players, where the Futures games is league versus league. According to MLB.com, each team will put together a roster of its best prospects to play a seven-inning game […]
He hasn’t pitched in a major league game since July of 2021. He came down with a flexor tendon strain in his throwing arm that May, came back for six starts, felt arm pain again, was dealt to the Dodgers, where he never pitched a game for them. He had […]
