Minnesota Twins Paul Molitor and Arizona Diamondbacks Torey Lovullo won Manager of the Year honors. From MLB.com, here is an interesting list of previous MOY winners. Most Manager of the Year wins by franchise: l. White Sox: 5 2. Cubs, Nationals/Expos: 4 4. Indians, Dodgers, Pirates, Giants, Braves, Rangers, […]
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Cody Bellinger won the Rookie of the Year award in the National League and Aaron Judge in the American League. Each was the unanimous choice in his league. Each hitter broke the rookie home run record in his respective league as well. In the […]
Baseball’s Winter Meetings start today in Orlando. Let the Rangers rehabilitation begin. The Rangers will lay the groundwork for deals that might not ever happen. But they have so many holes to fill, they won’t be able to address everything anyway. They are just three starters, three relievers and three […]
Here is an article about Jon Daniels’s biggest target of the off-season, Shohei Ohtani. Even though he wants to be a two-way player, he is respectful enough of the system that he acknowledges it’s not up to him. If this is any indication, it seems earlier reports that he […]
No industry honors itself more than Hollywood. Baseball is threatening to be a close second. After announcing the Gold Glove Award winners on Tuesday, now they announce their Defensive Player of the Year awards. Okay. They named a players at each position. They named an overall best defensive player (Minnesota’s […]
The 2017 Silver Slugger awards were announced. These are voted as the best offensive player at each position in each league. As with the Gold Glove awards, there were no Rangers. AMERICAN LEAGUE C: Gary Sanchez, Yankees 1B: Eric Hosmer, Royals 2B: Jose Altuve, Astros 3B: Jose Ramirez, Indians SS: Francisco Lindor, Indians OF: Justin Upton, […]
At the end of the season, the Rangers-own CJ Nitkowski tweeted this comparison of where this year’s totals for different statistics stacked up in the 144-year history of MLB. Home Runs: 1 Strikeouts: 1 ERA: 122 Complete Games: 144 (fewest ever) Reliever’s Innings Pitched: 1 Batting Average: 98 (tied) Slugging […]
The Gold Glove winners for 2017 have been announced. There were no Rangers. American League: C: Martin Maldonado, Angels, 1st 1B: Eric Hosmer, Royals, 4th 2B: Brian Dozier, Twins, 1st 3B: Evan Longoria, Rays, 3rd SS: Andrelton Simmons, Angels, 3rd LF: Alex Gordon, Royals, 5th CF: Byron Buxton, Twins, 1st […]
Free agency began at 4:00 Central yesterday. The Rangers did not make qualifying offers to Andrew Cashner or to Carlos Gomez, officially making them free agents. Any player receiving the qualifying offer of $17.4 million has five days to decide whether he wants to accept it. Around MLB, these nine […]
Is getting to the playoffs enough? There seems to be a sentiment that if you just get in, just win that wild card, anything can happen. True. As Rangers fans know all too well, anything can, indeed, happen. You can lose in the wild card game. You can lose in […]