Sure, it’s easy to look at these guys on the field as just products. Get out there, do your job, come back tomorrow for more of the same. Hey, we bought a ticket, let’s see you perform. They’re getting paid millions of dollars to do what any of us would […]
Okay, so the Rangers have brought back Delino DeShields. Why? What does DeShields bring to the table that they cannot get with what they already have in backup outfielders. Yes, he has some speed. But what good does base running ability do if you cannot get on base? He has […]
Nate Lowe has a chip on his shoulder. He is playing it off, which bodes well for what kind of a player he will be. Lesser players would rant and rave and cry about such a thing. Nate Lowe was left off the Tampa Bay playoff roster. In so many […]
The first projection of the season is in. Anthony Castrovince of MLB ranks the six divisions in baseball, then where each team will finish. The American League West is the fifth strongest division out of the six. It’s hard to argue with that, although his choice for last is the […]
On Monday, the Cactus League asked the office of Major League Baseball to delay spring training by three weeks as a way to curb the rise of COVID outbreaks in Arizona. That sent a scare among baseball fans that the 2021 season will be truncated like the 2020 season was. […]
The annual MLB Pipeline list of Top 100 prospects is out. The Rangers have three on the list: Josh Jung at 63, Sam Huff at 78, Dane Dunning at 91. Dunning will start the season in the Rangers rotation and will probably be the best pitcher they run out there. […]
The MLB.com list of top ten outfield prospects is out. The Rangers don’t have anyone. Joey Gallo was the last, and only, notable outfielder this front office regime has created in its tenure. Maybe even any postion. Nomar Mazara never materialized. He is currently unemployed after having been released by […]
For the first time since 1960, nobody was named to the Hall of Fame. In order to be inducted, a player must earn seventy-five percent of the votes from all writers ballots. The highest vote getter was Curt Schilling, a dominating pitcher and by all accounts borderline Hall of Famer […]
After releasing its list of top ten second baseman yesterday, MLB.com releases its top ten third basemen prospect list. The Rangers Josh Jung is fifth. Here is their scouting report on Jung: “The best position player in Texas Tech history, Jung went eighth overall in the 2019 Draft after consecutive […]
Jim Wallis of MLB.com released his list of top second basemen prospects in baseball. The Rangers Justin Foscue is eighth. Foscue was the Rangers first-round pick, and fourteenth overall, in the 2020 draft, out of Mississippi State. The six-foot, 203-pound right handed hitter batted .297 in college, with fewer strikeouts […]
