At least it was close to the Rangers.The American League Cy Young award ended up in the state of Texas. And with a guy named Dallas. If award season tells you anything, it’s where talent levels are. Houston has the American League Cy Young winner and the American League Rookie of the […]
Jeff Banister is all smiles after winning the AL Manager of the Year Award in his first season. It was the year of the rookie managers in the American League. Rangers first-year manager Jeff Banister won the AL Manager of the Year Award over other first-time major league managers […]
It’s not a big as “the Trade” that netted five players for Mark Tiexiera, and that made Jon Daniels as a GM. It’s not as important as the Hamels trade that turned around a Rangers struggling season and propelled them to a division title. But yesterday’s trade with Seattle […]
On MLB.com, Dan O’Dowd, a former GM, has a good article about four free agents he thinks will be a bargain. Good read. Check it out.
So, what to the Rangers need? I can see a scenario where they don’t do much. After all, they did win the division. If you look at it, they seem set at every position. I can see Daniels thinking that is enough. I can see Daniels adding pieces for backup, […]
Bullpens are volatile. One year a core group of guys is being called on in critical game situations, the next year they are not even trusted to close out a twenty-run lead. Look no further than Tanner Scheppers. He was reliable in 2013, until he picked a fight in a […]
This is the deepest market for free-agent pitchers I can ever remember. Last year, it was Max Scherzer and everyone else. This year, there are about a half dozen aces available, and another half dozen pitchers who could turn around a rotation. I would be very surprised if the Rangers […]
There is some lineup-changing talent available this off-season in right field. But it’s not where the Rangers will be looking as they try to make improvements in 2016. Mainly because Shin-Soo Choo mans right field. His contract is like two cement shoes, which he played like he was wearing for […]
Centerfield is a position that totally transformed itself for the Rangers in 2015. When the season started, it belonged to Leonys Martin. As unspectacular as his first three seasons (actually three seasons and five months of season four) were with the Rangers, he was coming into 2015 off the strength […]
Left field was mostly a dead zone for the Rangers in 2015. They used a dozen different players in left, most of them failed. Then, when they finally found one who worked, he broke down. I wrote about it back in September when a desperate Jeff Banister inserted Mike Napoli into left […]