The Rangers are at the halfway point of spring training. Brandon Nimmo made his first appearance in a spring training game yesterday. That was by design. When the soon-to-be thirty-three-year-old outfielder came to the Rangers in the Marcus Semien deal from the Mets, Nimmo asked new Texas manager Skip Schumaker […]

On the heels of a winter Olympic games that saw national pride in USA men’s and women’s hockey, the World Baseball Classic gets underway today. The WBC was hatched because of the Olympics, in fact.  When baseball was dropped from the summer Olympics, Major League Baseball decided to conduct its […]

The Josh Jung redemption tour hit a snag. On Saturday, he went down with “something in his hamstring” as he described it. That something is a Grade 1 adductor strain. It’s expected he will miss two weeks. Injuries have plagued Jung his entire career. Last year, though, he was injury […]

Only two major league teams in 2025 failed to have a closer to record double-digit saves. One was the lowly White Sox. The other, as you may have guessed from the name of this blog, was your Texas Rangers. Now, that doesn’t mean they were at the bottom two teams […]