One piece of the 2020 bullpen has been secured. The Rangers signed Edinson Volquez to a minor league contract with the understanding he will pitch out of the bullpen next season. According to Volquez, Rangers general manager Jon Daniels talked him out of retiring and into coming back to mentor […]
Yes, looking at the Rangers through the rearview mirror hasn’t been cheerful. There are train wrecks everywhere. Three seasons in a row of carnage. But the encouraging news is, the road ahead doesn’t need to be a brick wall. The Rangers can be competitive in just a couple simple moves. […]
MLB.com’s T.R. Sullivan published his top ten Rangers moments of 2019. Here they are: 1. Michael Young’s number retirement. 2. Rangers have three walk-off wins in a row, all against the Angels. 3. Joey Gallo becomes the fastest player in American League history to hit 100 home runs. 4. Rougned […]
Many times this site has been, and I have been by extension, accused of being negative toward the Rangers. Recently, Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News wrote his assessment of the Rangers current state of affairs, as compared to the Astros and Nationals. It was interesting to see that he, a […]
The Rangers bullpen was, in a word, a mess in 2019. On the strength of half a great season in 2018, they threw a nice contract extension at Jose Leclerc, only to watch him implode. He went from closer to eight inning guy to pray-he-gets-someone-out guy. He went from an […]
Texas had two of the best starting pitchers in the American League in 2019. Texas had one of the worst starting staffs in the American League in 2019. They had two totally different rotations. The Rangers ERA for their starters was 5.37. Combined, Mike Minor and Lance Lynn had an […]
Shin-Soo Choo committed the unpardonable sin of being injured the first season of his seven-year contract. For that, a lot of Rangers fans have never forgiven him. And, have never given him credit for being one of the most productive hitters in the Rangers lineup since. It’s also not his […]
As the season wound down, Nomar Mazara saw less and less action in right field. He played in just seven games in September. After driving in 101 runs in 2017, Mazara’s production has dropped, first to 77 RBIs, then, last season, to 66. His OPS+, which measures a batter’s offensive […]
Mike Trout. Delino DeShields. It’s really not a fair comparison. It’s like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight. The Angels have the best centerfielder in baseball, the best player of our generation, when it’s said and done one of the all-time greats. So, taking Trout out of the story, […]
Looking at the position-by-position comparison of the Rangers against the rest of the teams in the American League West has, so far, been bleak. But that’s only because the Ranger had the worst infield and catching in baseball last year, offensively. But left field is a different story. Take Joey […]
