Carlos Beltran’s tenure as a Texas Ranger has come to an end. After a storied career that spanned some sixty-four days in a Texas uniform, Rangers fans are going to have to get used to the fact that Carlos Beltran will no longer be roaming right field in Arlington […]
The non-tender offer deadline was last night. The Rangers released Jared Hoying, and offered contracts to Sam Dyson, Jake Diekman, Tanner Scheppers, Jeremy Jeffress, Robinson Chirinos, Jurickson Profar and A.J. Griffin. ***** Getting back to reviewing each win in the 2016 season: In the sixth game of the year, Texas […]
The Rangers won 95 games this season. So, this off-season, on days where nothing is happening, which is most of them, I will repost the RR3 article that ran after each win. Monday I posted the article from the opening day win. After that game, Texas lost the next three […]
There will be peace in baseball for the next five years. Last night the owners and union reached an agreement after days of tense, bitter negotiations. It all came down to money, as it always does. In the end, it happened like this: After days of stalled negotiations that were […]
Maybe fifty Americans have even heard of it. Half of them care about it. Half of those have ever seen a single game. That’s why the upcoming fourth World Baseball Classic will, by all accounts, be the last World Baseball Classic. Nobody in America cares about it. Least of all, […]
The commissioner’s office sent a memo to all thirty teams telling them that if there is no collective bargaining agreement in place by end of day December 1, not to make any roster moves and not to show up for the winter meetings starting December 4. Just when you thought […]
Not much is happening in Rangersland, and probably won’t for a week. The winter meetings start next Sunday, December 4, and the Collective Bargaining Agreement expires Thursday, December 1. Most GMs will probably wait to see if there will be a labor deal in place, and what the landscape will […]
There’s an old Bruce Springsteen song that pretty much sums up the state of the Rangers rotation choices so far this off-season after Hamels and Darvish. It’s called “57 Channels And Nothin’ On.” It a commentary about how we have more programming choices than ever before, yet nothing worth watching. It’s […]
You may have never heard of Shohei Ohtani. What’s remarkable about him isn’t that he was just named as the Japanese league’s best pitcher, but he was also chosen as the league’s best DH as well. Remember when Madison Bumgarner asked—and was politely turned down—his team if he could compete […]
Well, it was bound to happen. On the heels of a great World Series—where the ratings were through the roof, where people were talking about baseball again, loving baseball again, actually tuning in to watch baseball again—comes the stupidest word that could possibly be uttered by anyone associated with major […]