Nick Solak found out the hard way if you don’t perform at the major league level (and you don’t have a long-term contract that included horses), you don’t keep your major league job. In a surprise move, he was optioned to Triple-A yesterday to make room for Curtis Terry. Rangers […]

Looking for positives in a nine-game losing streak is like looking for common sense in Washington. It’s rare. But Andy Ibañez is the offensive star of the second half, the only Ranger at all worthy of bringing a bat up to the plate with him. After yesterday’s 3-for-4 performance, including […]

“This is critical for us. Especially for me as a manager. There are things that are at stake here.” Commenting on his team’s recent woes, Rangers manager Chris Woodward sounded like a man whose job is on the line. It might very well be. But through no fault of his […]

This is what ten years of deforesting a major league roster looks like.  This is what stacking rotations with Mike Foltynewicz and Jordan Lyles and Shelby Miller and Drew Smyly and Bartolo Colon and Yovani Gallardo and Doug Fister and Matt Moore and Tyson Ross and Scott Baker and Kyle […]

My mother always said, “If you can’t think of anything nice to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.” Good advice for now. *****TODAY’S GAME:

There’s a new F-word. It’s as distasteful and vulgar as the other F-word. And it pitches for the Texas Rangers. When Mike Foltynewicz pitches, four-letter words follow. Many of them. Because home runs follow, too. Many of them. After gifting the Blue Jays with four home runs yesterday, Foltynewicz has now given […]

Mother Nature, it seems, doesn’t want to suffer through a Rangers road game any more than Rangers fans do. So, she washed out yesterday’s game. They will play two today. But instead of nine innings, both games will be seven, mercifully depriving us of four Rangers road innings. Thank you, […]

Here’s my hope for the second half of the season. Adolis Garcia builds on his All-Star-calibre first half and proves it wasn’t a fluke. Joey Gallo continues his assault on the baseball and his elite-level of play. In a Rangers uniform. If the Rangers must trade him, hopefully it’s in […]

A friend has a baby and of course the baby is cute and of course there is the certainty that the baby will grow up to be president one day, or cure cancer, or something else noble. Then a few years go by and you hear the kid stole a […]