The lifeblood of any organization is the constant stream of rookies that seep into its major league roster from year to year. Ten rookies debuted with the Rangers in 2015. All in all, it was a pretty promising group: Delino DeShields Joey Gallo Hanser Alberto Ryan Strausborger Logan Verrett Keone […]
This is difficult to write. Scary has passed away. Perhaps it’s not totally surprising since he has been in such bad health for some time now. He has been hospitalized on a number of occasions recently, disappearing for small stretches from the RR3 radar screen, including on Saturday and Sunday. And […]
MLB.com has posted its Top 100 prospects list for 2016. Five Rangers made the list. Joey Gallo, 9. Lewis Brinson, 16. Nomar Mazara, 18. Dillon Tate, 36. Luis Ortiz, 73. It’s interesting to go to their archive section and look at past prospect lists. They go back to only 2011, so many […]
Great pitching wins championships. The Rangers won the AL West with the worst ERA in the division and third worst in the league, better than only Boston and Detroit. Texas pitching gave up the most runs, the most earned runs, and issued the most walks in the entire American League, […]
While Rangers fans patiently await the arrival, and emergence, of Nomar Mazara and Lewis Brinson, the question most ask is: will that come this season or next? We don’t ask if they will be good. But while all indications are they are the real things, the fact is, if they […]
This is my second annual “What Success Looks Like,” in which I look at the records of all the American League teams in the Jon Daniels Era—the ten years from 2006 to 2015—to compare how the Rangers fared against the rest of the league. Since Jon Daniels became the general […]
There’s that old saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” A year ago we were wondering the same things we are wondering now. Do the Rangers have enough to complete? Do they have holes? How can we fill in those holes? Below is where we were last […]
This won’t be news to anyone by now, but Shawn Tolleson avoided arbitration with the Rangers by agreeing to a one-year contract at $3.275 million. Tolleson was seeking $3.9 million. The Rangers originally offered $2.6. In the end, they met halfway, plus another $25,000. Tolleson was, of course, the anchor of a […]
The season hasn’t even started yet and already the story is Hamilton’s knee. He had surgery. It still causes him pain. That’s not going away. So this season will be a steady stream of monitoring his knee to hope it is good enough to allow him to play. All it takes is a […]
Who said you can’t go home again? (Actually, it was Thomas Wolfe, but that’s not important right now.) This winter’s free agent market proved that old axiom to be false. The market was unique for a few things. The first being, there was a ton of premium, game-changing, franchise-defining talent available. More top quality or […]