A lot of fans are wondering what the Rangers’ blueprint for success in this winter meetings is (if indeed they actually have a plan). They do. They are calling it “forced discipline.” It’s how they claim they built their World Series team in 2010 on a budget of just $65 […]
Last year, I did a recap of the winter meetings, talking about Ross Detwiler, Delino DeShields, and Scott Barnes. Barnes was released a couple of days later without throwing a single pitch for the Rangers. Detwiler was released in mid-July, having thrown far too many pitches for the Rangers. And […]
The biggest news the Rangers have created this Winter Meeting is that their netting complies with MLB’s new standards. Read about it here. Compliance with the net laws is the most important announcement the Rangers have made this off season.
As good of a trade deadline as Jon Daniels had, he was overshadowed this year by Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore, who was honored as the game’s Best Executive last night at the Winter Meetings in Nashville. The Best Executive award is a combination of balloting by fans, the […]
After Day One of the winter meetings, a lot of possibilities were tossed around but no triggers were actually pulled by the Rangers. It’s easy as a fan to get restless and to wonder when they are going to get on with the business of making this a better team […]
The winter meetings start today,
Baseball’s Winter Meetings start tomorrow in Nashville. Last year’s haul from the Winter Meetings were Ross Detwiler, Delino DeShields and Scott Barnes (who the Rangers turned around and released a few days later). So in celebration of the beginning of potential game-changing deals, and this being the last day of Elvis week, and this being the […]
Even though April saw the Rangers at their 2015 worst, they did manage, somehow, to win seven games. In one of those games, Elvis drove in two runs. Of course, he also had five errors in April that cost the Rangers a lot more than two runs, and batted just […]
Elvis Andrus hit a career-high seven home runs in 2015, and drove in sixty-two runs, second most of his career. But for the fourth year in a row, his batting average and on-base percentage slipped. His month-by-month batting average splits were a tale of two seasons. He was pretty bad […]
Another one about Elvis. Hopefully, another team’s GM will accidentally bump into RR3, read all these great things about Elvis, and make Daniels a trade offer he cannot refuse. I am trying to do my part. This one is from September 2. *** SEPTEMBER BASEBALL. September baseball is different than […]