Texas Rangers


A tale of two feats.

Stealing home is the most exciting play in baseball. It’s daring. It almost seems impossible. But the Rangers pulled it off last night, as part of a double steal. While last night’s feat wasn’t quite the straight steal of home, it was part of a double steal. And frankly it’s […]


The legend of Jonah Heim.

When you hit the game-winning home run, it’s special. When you do it two days in a row, it’s the stuff of legend. Jonah Heim catapulted himself into the book of legends yesterday with his second consecutive walk-off home run. He became the first player in Texas Rangers history to pull […]


A nice way to end July.

The Rangers won their first game in July. They won their last game in July. Let’s just forget the twenty-two games in the middle (because they were 4-18 in those). It looked like they were going to slither out of the month with their tails between their legs after blowing […]


Rangers leaving American League.

The Texas Rangers, in a stunning move, have offically requested permission from the Commissioner’s Office of Major League Baseball to leave the American League.  Subsequently, the team has applied for admission into the Double-A Central League of Minor League Baseball. Jon Daniels, Rangers President of Baseball Operations, confirmed the report […]


The Gang of Four.

You can look through stats and to try to find out about the players the Ranger got in the Joey Gallo trade. Instead of raw numbers, let’s look at what Yankees blogs have said about these players.  Three weeks ago, on a Yankees site called Fansided, Adam Weinrib had this […]


Gone.

“Obviously, I’d love to stay here but it’s not up to me at the end of the day. I just want to say thank you to the Rangers if this is my last time, thank you to the Rangers fans, you guys have been great for me. I love you […]


Dear Jon letter.

Dear Mr. Daniels: Here are ten reasons not to trade Joey Gallo. 1: He is your only drafting success story in your sixteen years as the Rangers general manager. Keep him around for that reason alone.  2: Of the position players, he is the only bona fide major leaguer on […]


Sort of like real baseball.

Once I was in the park and saw a man feeding bread to the ducks. After he left, most of the ducks left as well to find someone else to feed them. Next to a tree two wounded ducks remained to fight over one last moldy piece of bread. It […]


Worst ever of all time.

The Rangers had a lead. Or did they? Is a lead if you go ahead at any point? Or does a lead only count at the end of an inning? Two different sources have two different answers to that questions. Elias Sports says a lead at any time is a […]


Garcia’s disappearing act.

For the ninety-seventh time in ninety-nine games, the Rangers were not no-hit. But they almost were, not getting their first hit until the eighth inning.  It’s a historic freefall. This team has not had a lead in 95 innings. The major league record is 98. They have now lost eleven games […]