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 […]
It’s Elvis week at RR3. Yesterday I re-printed an article from a game in which two Elvis Andrus defensive breakdowns caused the Rangers to lose a mid-May game in Boston. In the interest of fair play, here is a re-print from a game in which the offensive star was Elvis Andrus. […]
When you go back and relive a season like the Rangers just had, there is naturally going to be some good, some bad, and some ugly. After all, this team was nine games back in late July, until some smart deals at the trade deadline, combined with a gracious collapse by the […]
Sports Illustrated writer Ben Reiter published his eighth annual Reiter 50, his list of the top fifty free agents and where he thinks the best fit for each one is. So far, he is 0-for-2, having picked Matt Weiters to go to the Braves (he accepted the Orioles’ qualifying offer) […]
When the Rangers hit the playoffs at the end of the 2015 season, only two of the nine starting position players (counting the DH) were homegrown: Mitch Moreland and Rougned Odor. And only one backup player: Hanser Alberto. Out of fourteen position players on their playoff roster, only three were […]