Who are MLB.com’s Top Ten shortstops for 2024? Top on the list is someone every Rangers fan is acutely familiar with. Corey Seager. His game-tying two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1 of the 2023 World Series will forever make him the greatest shortstop […]
When it comes to second baseman, the Rangers Marcus Semien is number three on the MLB.com Top Ten list. When it comes to second baseman any Rangers fan would want on his team, there’s no question Semien is first. He got off to a slow start in his first year […]
The list of Top Ten first baseman is out. As with the catcher list, there is no Ranger. Nathanial Lowe did not make it. But, it’s a pretty deep position. And it’s a subjective list. Lowe had to suffer the indignation of being the only Ranger infielder not to make […]
MLB.com came out with its Top Ten Players at every position. Here are their top ten catchers, with last year’s ranking in parenthesis. 1. Adley Rutschman, BAL (Last year: 3)2. Will Smith, LAD (2)3. Sean Murphy, ATL (4)4. J.T. Realmuto, PHI (1)5. William Contreras, MIL (NR)6. Willson Contreras, STL (5)7. […]
The annual MLB Pipeline Top 100 Prospects list is out. The Rangers have four players on the list. In fact, they have two of the top six players: outfielders Evan Carter at number five and Wyatt Langford at number six. Shorstop Sabastian Wolcott comes in at 71, and right-handed pitcher […]
The bullpen was their Achilles Heel last year. So, the Rangers have added to it this offseason. They signed Kirby Yates. Traded for Daniel Duarte. And, yesterday, signed David Robertson, a thirty-eight-year-old right-handed closer who split his time between the Mets and the Marlins in 2023. It was the tale […]
If there was every any doubt, there shouldn’t have been. Adrian Beltre belonged in the Hall of Fame. Period. Yet, 4.9 percent of Hall of Fame voters didn’t vote for him. Those writers are known by their more familiar name: Idiots. Eleven voters didn’t cast ballots for Babe Ruth back […]
In an offseason as dull as a Super Bowl halftime show, any news is news. And at least the Rangers have some news to report. The Rangers have reached agreements with seven of the eight arbitration eligible players on the their roster. Nathaniel Lowe, Dane Dunning, Jonah Heim, Leody Taveras, […]
It’s 2024. Last year is officially over. The World Series glow of 2023 still shines but now it give way to the oncoming lights of the 2024 season. We are closer to the start of spring training than we are to the last out of the glorious World Series. Exactly […]
