Good luck watching a Rangers game on TV this season. It might be impossible. Bally Sports, which own the rights to broadcast Rangers games, is about a millisecond away from bankruptcy. The channel is no longer available on U-Verse, YouTube TV, or Hulu. As of now, only DirectTV and Spectrum […]
It depends on whether you’re an alarmist or a realist. It depends on whether you’re a glass half full or half empty person. It depends on whether you’re a Rangers fan with a memory or not. You can look at this early round of nagging injuries from Rangers pitchers as […]
Rougned Odor just signed with the San Diego Padres. Ronald Guzman is pitching for the San Franciso Giants. He’s thrown one inning in spring, giving up one run, a homer. Joey Gallo is playing first base for the Minnesota Twins. Willie Calhoun and Isiah Kiner-Falefa are with the Yankees. Kiner-Falefa […]
Andrew Heaney had his first spring start yesterday. Whether he won it or lost it or pitched well or poorly isn’t an issue. It’s that he pitched. Every time he, or Jacob deGrom, or Nate Eovaldi, or even Jon Gray for that matter, take the mound this spring, it’s not […]
The future of the Rangers was on display in Surprise, Arizona, yesterday. Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker. Former college teammates at Vanderbilt, now forever intwined as Rangers prospects, and back-to-back first round picks. Both pitchers threw an inning in yesterday’s 6-4 win over the Colorado Rockies. Leiter pitched the sixth, […]
So far, the early results of the new pitch clock have been favorable. Players—both pitchers and hitters—seem to like it. Get the ball, throw the ball. No standing around. No wasted time. Just play ball. Games are already nearly 25 minutes shorter this spring than last. More offense, too. The […]
Two meaningless games. Two meaningless losses. Exhibition baseball is back. Although the games don’t mean anything, getting off to a good start is important to players. Maybe even more so to the team. Justin Foscue has four sprint at-bats. Three hits. Two home runs. Justin Foscue doesn’t have a place […]
The idea of the World Baseball Classic sprung out of rejection. The Olympics were getting rid of baseball. Spurned, the International Baseball Federation got together with Major League Baseball to stage their own international baseball event. Taking the ball and going home. The first WBC was 2006. The idea was […]
Exhibition games start today with a 2:05 game between guys in Texas Rangers uniforms playing guys in Kansas City Royals uniforms. Yes, it’s Laundry Day. It’s the chance for guys who will never wear a big league jersey to put one on and play in a game, take a photo […]
Texas spent the last six seasons mired in irrelevance. They’ve been so far from the playoffs, you’d need the Hubble Telescope to find them. What killed them was just two things. No offense. No pitching. So, before last season, they went out and got three huge bats to try to […]
