Here is my pick for the top ten closers heading into the 2018 season. The Rangers don’t have a closer on this list, and that’s okay. They don’t have a closer. That’s okay, as well, because one will emerge. Closers are a dime a dozen. If it’s not Bush, it […]

With spring training about a month away, it’s time to start looking ahead to the 2018 season. Here are my top ten starting pitchers in baseball. The savvy reader will notice not one Texas Ranger is on this list.     Your opinion may vary.

Congratulations to Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Trevor Hoffman for being inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame.  

Today, at 5:00 central, the MLB Network will announce the new members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. There’s a good chance a record number of inductees will be announced. The most players to be elected into the Hall in a single year is five, and that was the […]

NATIONAL TEXAS RANGERS DAY. Yesterday I recounted the Rangers best moment of 2017, Adrian Beltre’s 3000th hit. It was also the same day Pudge Rodriguez was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Here is what I wrote July 31, 2017. Enjoy Sunday, July 30, 2017, was a great day to […]

Top Ten Moment #1: Adrian Beltre collects hit number 3000.   It landed in deep left field. It touched down near the foul line. It was double. A clean hit. The way Adrian Beltre wanted it. Nothing cheap. Nothing controversial. No home-team scoring favor. When it landed, Beltre became the […]

During the Q&A session at Friday night’s Rangers Awards Dinner, Rangers fans asked manager Jeff Banister about the wisdom of turning reliever Matt Bush into a starter, especially based on Texas’s dismal track record of doing so. “Your experience is what happened here,” Banister said. “There are 29 other teams that […]

Matt Bush’s career may have been saved yesterday when it was announced that Martin Perez will, indeed, be ready by opening day. Whether that is actually the case is yet to be seen, though, because rarely does a Ranger come back from injury early which was possible with the presence […]

If anyone is wondering what Prince Fielder is up to now that all he has is all the time in the world and about $190 million for doing nothing with it, he has a new cooking show called Fielder’s Choice, available on Netflix. Here is an article about it. Yes, […]