The Hall of Fame Ballot came out yesterday. Number 29 is on it. Adrian Beltre was a good player when, at age thirty-two, and after thirteen major league seasons, he signed as a free agent with the Rangers. Eight seasons later, he was a Hall of Fame-caliber player. Beltre started […]
Imagine the disappointment Bruce Bochy felt upon not winning the Manager of the Year award yesterday. Where would he put it? He certainly isn’t going to move the 2023 World Series trophy off his mantel. Or the 2010 World Series trophy. Or the one from 2012. Or 2014. The guy […]
There’s been a lot of moaning about the new playoff format. It started during last-year’s playoffs and is still going on. The two division winners with the most victories get a first-round bye while the other teams play a best-of-three first round wildcard series. Last season, three of the four […]
In news that is not surprising: Marcus Semien won the American League Silver Slugger award for second basemen. He led the A.L. in hits, with 185, and runs, 122. He drive in 100, and had 73 extra-base hits. Oh, by they way, he is a finalist for MVP. Corey Seager […]
Coming into this offseason, the Rangers are in a position they’re rarely in. They’re a really good team with very few needs. It used to be their roster was like a municipal golf course. Full of holes and overrun with amateurs. This season, in the offensive side, what they really […]
It’s awards season. The Rangers already took home the biggest award of all. But it’s nice for individual players to be honored. Yesterday, three Rangers won Gold Glove Awards. Nathanial Lowe at first, Jonah Heim at catcher, and Adolis Garcia in right. The only other team in the American League with […]
An estimated crowd of 500,000 jammed into a postage-stamp size section of Arlington surrounding the Rangers ballpark yesterday to celebrate the Rangers winning their first-ever World Series championship. It became painfully obvious this was the Rangers first-ever victory parade. Whoever organized this parade has also never done, seen, or heard […]
As part of the postgame celebration after Game 5, Ray Davis, Rangers owner, said, “This won’t be our last one.” After the 2011 season, Jon Daniels, then Rangers general manager, promised this was the new direction for the Texas Rangers, that winning was what could be expected year in and […]
The huge headline on the front page of The Dallas Morning News says it all. “Finally.” After fifty-two years in Arlington, after the heartbreak of 2011, after all those years of losing, after failing to win the American League West on the final day of the season, the Texas Rangers […]
Before the game, the Rangers found out they were going to be without Max Scherzer and Adolis Garcia for the rest of the World Series. Losing Scherzer is unfortunate but not that big of a deal. He wasn’t going to pitch until Game 7 anyway, and even then, with the […]
