The team with the worst batting average in major league baseball and the fewest runs scored per game in 2020 came out swinging on opening day 2021. Five runs in the first inning. Ten runs over all. Fifteen hits. Nine walks. Baserunner early and often. But the bad habits of […]
Today should be a national holiday. National Optimism Day. Opening day means baseball is back. And baseball being back means everything. Last year’s abbreviated sixty-game schedule is a thing of the distant past. A normal 162-game marathon is on tap. This opening day means so much more than past opening […]
There’s nothing like that new car smell. The Rangers have it. There’s new everywhere, from the front office to the players on the field, to the actual field they are playing on. There’s nothing like that new baseball season smell. Full fresh cut (artificial) grass and the leather of the […]
Question marks. Or exclamation points. ? or ! Forecasting a baseball team comes down to which you have more of. More question marks and uncertainty? Or more exclamation points and players to get excited by? The Rangers have question marks all over the field. First base: ?Nate Lowe appears to […]
Matt Bush is back. He was informed by manager Chris Woodward that he had made the Rangers opening day roster. It’s been a while. He’s forever going to be known as the guy who hit Jose Bautisa before Rougned Odor did. It was Bush’s pitch that drilled Bautista as payback […]
Well, here we are. The final game in Surprise. Then two more practice games in The Shed. Then the season starts. After last season’s sixty-game sprint, it will be good to get back to a 162-game marathon. This spring revealed a few things. One, Joey Gallo might have a monster […]
The second Delino DeShields era is over. The Rangers have told DeShields he will not be on their opening day roster. That’s not much of a surprise. What was a surprise was why they signed him in the first place. He is not a young player, or even a particularly […]
The Rangers are on a youth movement, so, too, are we here at Rangers Rounding 3rd. Introducing the newest RR3er, Stella. A stray born outside, she is the only of her litter that survived the deep freeze in February. A wonderful couple rescued her, nursed her back to health, then […]
As a fan, it’s hard to evaluate a manager of a bad team. Even the best poker player won’t win too many games with a pair of twos when the other players all have four of a kind. And that’s an apt analogy for the disparity in talent level that […]
The MLB Pipeline farm system rankings are out again. Like last year’s pre-season rankings, the Rangers are at 21. So, lower third in all of baseball. It’s not a good thing when your major league team is poor and your minor league system is lacking. That usually translates to years […]
