Baseball is hard. It’s why so many athletes choose other sports. They are easier. Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in any sport. Playing at the major league level is difficult. Shohei Ohtani is finding that out on an international scale. Every spring at-bat, every spring pitch, […]
How times change. There’s an article on mlb.com rating the top pitching duos in baseball. Of course, the Rangers don’t make that list. But it go me thinking about last season and the way the Rangers marketed Yu Darvish and Cole Hamels. They had a little film called Two Aces […]
Spring is teaching us one thing about the Rangers. It’s going to be a generous team. They will be philanthropists. Two more unearned runs yesterday. Twenty-four errors in twenty-two games. Spring is for fundamentals. Those things don’t seem to be being addressed at Rangers camp. Defense has never been a […]
Is it over yet? It spring training over? Can we just get into a time machine set for March 29, 2018, and get this over with already? Please.
In the home stretch. Two more weeks until opening day. There don’t seem to be may surprises in Surprise. Nobody is coming out of nowhere to turn heads. No dark horse is emerging. No Austin Bibens-Dirkx stories. Clayton Blackburn could have been that story. He has had the ignominy of […]
In case you missed it yesterday, the Rangers made their first big round of roster moves, assigning fourteen players to their minor league camp. The biggest name was Willie Calhoon, the man without a natural defensive position, who the Rangers acquired for Yu Darvish. Others sent down were pitchers Austin […]
Anthony Castrovince on mlb.com named the most indispensable player on every major league team. On the Texas Rangers… (drumroll please as envelope is handed out). …La La Land. No, wait. Cole Hamels. Here’s what Castrovince said: “The Rangers’ rotation beyond Hamels ranges from the the iffy (Doug Fister, Matt Moore, […]
He was the Rangers closer for a while last year. He came into camp determined to make the starting rotation. Rangers manager Jeff Banister has declared he will be neither in 2018. He will, instead, be a middle-reliever. The Rangers version of an Andrew Miller. And that might be the […]
It was good to see the Rangers Uniforms get a win yesterday, meaningless or not. It was the way they did that counted. At the stadium, me and my buddies had so much fun. On hot summer days like this, drinking some fine Oddbins and eating well done burger with […]
Yesterday on mlb.com, Richard Justice had his list of five teams that will be better than you think. The Rangers were on that list. Here’s what he said: “Rangers starters have a 3.15 ERA this spring, and now they’ve added Tim Lincecum to the back of the bullpen. Starting and […]