Forget the dismal spring record. Forget the long empty winter. Forget ignoring the premium free agents. Forget the Macgyvered rotation. Forget last year’s disappointment. Baseball is back. Another season awakens. It’s National Optimism Day. There’s nothing better than baseball when the season resets itself. Nothing better than looking at […]
Bullpens are the toughest thing to handicap. It used to be bullpens were some sore armed starters who come in to finish out a few games a month. That was back when starting pitchers were expected to pitch. And when starting pitchers went every four days instead of every five […]
The bats should be good. In fact, they might be better this year than last season. Mainly it’s addition by subtraction. Gone are strikeout machines Carlos Gomez and Mike Napoli. The infield is solid, almost spectacular. Adrian Beltre turns 39 the second week in. It doesn’t matter whether he turned […]
Two more spring games, then the season starts for real Thursday, with four against the Houston Astros. This Texas Rangers team will be tested early. The rotation is a mess. Jon Daniels reconstructed the starting rotation not by dipping into the checkbook but by dipping into the […]
That wasn’t pretty. Arizona was not nice to the Rangers. 7-22. Not counting the two ties, the Rangers played .241 baseball this spring in Arizona. How bad is that? Over a 162-game season, a .241 winning percentage translates to a 40-122 record. Only one team in the history of major […]
It looks like this year is going to be the year Rangers fans see the future. Gallo, Mazara, Odor. After all those years at the helm, all those draft picks that didn’t pan out, all those prospects that were traded for the likes of Matt Garza and Ryan Dempster, Jon […]
As we watch the Rangers crash and burn in 2018, and count down to 100 losses, there will be some positives. Chris Towers of CBSSports.com wrote an article about how Joey Gallo is a super star just waiting to break out. Here’s what he said: One good thing about living […]
One week to go until opening day and this spring exhibition schedule can’t end soon enough for the Rangers. They have been awful in all facets of the game, except for PR spin. The Rangers close out Arizona spring camp with a whimper, and with four more games: two today, […]
The good news is, the Rangers had zero errors yesterday. The bad news is, that means all seven runs Doug Fister allowed, and all then runs the Rangers allowed total in yesterday’s 10-0 loss to the White Sox, were earned. All twenty hits they gave up were legitimate hits. The […]
Badly in need of starting pitching, the Texas Rangers made a move yesterday, acquiring power-hitting first baseman Tommy Joseph off waivers from the Phillies. The 26-year-old Joseph was the starting first baseman for Philadelphia last season, but lost his job when the Phillies signed Carlos Santana, then lost his roster […]
