The Rangers avoided arbitration by agreeing to contracts with Keone Kela, Jake Diekman, and Jurickson Profar. Diekman will make $2.7 million in 2018, Kela $1.2, and Profar a head-scratching $1.05 million for doing nothing much. Kela was injured twice last season and for nearly three months in 2016, but his […]
According to Gerry Fraley in the Dallas Morning News here is the pitcher that the Rangers signed this off-season who will make the biggest impact in 2018.
The Rangers rotation is still made up of Cole Hamels, and four number five starters. There are seventy seven days until opening day, so there is still time to land Bartolo Colon and Matt Garza. Fingers crossed.
Nick Martinez will be pitching in Japan in 2018. You may resume your slumber.
LIFE AFTER YU. Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment #3 of the Rangers 2017 season, the game when Adrian Beltre moved the on-deck circle. It was the game they took a 22-10 pounding at the hands of the Miami Marlins. More significantly, it was the last start in a Rangers […]
Top Ten Moment #3: Adrian Beltre moves the on-deck circle. There’s that old adage that no matter how many times you go to the ballpark, you will always see something you’ve never seen before. One of my favorite stories happened in 1987. Dave Bresnahan was a 25-year-old back-up catcher […]
Nobody has more fun playing the game than Adrian Beltre. Here is a too brief compilation video of some of his lighthearted moments. Enjoy.
This is not much of a story but then again this hasn’t been much of an off-season. It seems the Rangers are entering a partnership with the Nippon Ham Fighters. Here is the article. The most interesting part about this is the name of the team. Nippon Ham Fighters. It’s […]
The Rangers are reportedly interested in center fielder Lorenzo Cain. It seems, once again, Delino DeShields is the Rodney Dangerfield of Texas. He gets no respect. No matter how much he outperformed Leonys Martin in 2015, Jeff Banister was reluctant to make him the starting center fielder, burying the Rangers […]
There hasn’t been a lot of activity this off-season. It seems to be the quintessential staring contest. Agents are trying to wait out teams and see who panics and decides to overspend. Teams are waiting out players and sees whose wife panics first and demands a contract now. Most of […]