This is always a critical moment for a team. Coming out of the All-Star break, there’s always a team that struggles. There’s always a team that takes off. If they struggle, it’s blamed on too much rest for the players who didn’t play in the All-Sar Game, too little rest […]
The All-Star Game isn’t what it used to be. That might sound like the Get Off My Lawn rantings of guy screaming at clouds, but it’s true. It used to be a game. Now it’s a TV show. Now it’s content. It’s network programming. Sure, it’s still the best all-star […]
When Nathan Eovaldi took the mound in the second inning of yesterday’s All-Star Game in Seattle, there were six Texas Rangers on the field. That hadn’t happened since the 1951All-Star Game when six Brooklyn Dodgers were on the field at once. Back then, though, there were only eight teams in […]
The Rangers play the National League tonight. Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Jonah Heim, Adolis Garcia, and Josh Jung are all starting tonight’s All-Star game in Seattle. That’s a testament to three things. One, their talents and the remarkable seasons each player is having. Two, how good the Rangers are, despite […]
Three years ago, Wyatt Langford entered the major league baseball draft as a high school senior. No team drafted him. A native of Trenten, Florida, Langford decided to go college near his home. He chose the University of Florida. His freshman year, 2021, at Florida, he played in four games. […]
On June 6, the Texas Rangers beat the St Louis Cardinals to go twenty games over .500. Since then, they have won 12 and lost 18. In that stretch, Rangers starters have been spotty other than Eovalid and Dunning. Heaney, Perez, and Bradford have won just one each. Jon Gray […]
In the Nobody Really Knows Anything About Anything But Often Just Get Lucky category, there’s the case of Adolis Garcia. In December of 2019, the then twenty-five-year-old outfielder from Cuba was DFA’d by the Cardinals after 25 games in 2018. The Rangers picked him up for $100,000. Or, Jacob deGrom’s bandage […]
Until the Rangers get reliable relief pitching, this is going to continue. It was unrealistic to think the Rangers could continue scoring ten runs per game. Offenses just don’t do that. And it’s unrealistic to think these relief pitchers will suddenly figure it out. That’s wishful thinking. You’re not getting […]
Jon Gray is stuck in a strange in-between. He’s pitched into some pretty bad luck, getting little run support at times. And he’s pitched poorly enough to justify the loss at times. He’s been good and not so good lately. Rangers announcers were trying to elicit sympathy for the way […]
The fact the Rangers have four starters in the All-Star Game, and six players overall on the All-Star roster, and that Dane Dunning is now 8-1 with the fourth-best ERA in the American league are connected. Other than Jung and Eovaldi, who weren’t wth the Rangers last year, what is […]
