Baseball gets back to normal. Well, at least as normal as spring training baseball can get. But no more shortened games. All games will go nine innings, unless there’s rain or something weird. No more bailing out of an inning because your pitcher was so bad he reached a pitch […]
Most of spring training is waiting for it to end. Waiting for pitchers to work up their arm strength. But every year there seems to be one storyline that makes these five weeks worthwhile. This spring it’s Curtis Terry. The six-foot-two, two-hundred-fifty-eight-pound first baseman is turning heads. He’s doing that […]
Major League Baseball announced it is experimenting with rule changes in the minor leagues, to see if they might possibly make improvements to the big-league game. Possibly the biggest experiment is how to tackle the shift. It turns out that players cannot simply hit it the other way. Defensive shifts […]
After scoring seventeen runs on eighteen hits on Wednesday, the Rangers were shut out on one lousy single on Thursday. From the second to last batter. The Rangers were almost no-hit. That’s spring for you. But that’s also two games in the last few days in which the Rangers went […]
Whether it’s spring, the middle of the season, in the World Series, or a Little League game, any time you can score seventeen runs is a good day. Who doesn’t love offense? Last season, that was an entire month’s worth of offensive output. Of course, you don’t get too excited. […]
Three players who aren’t doing themselves any favors so far this spring: Khris Davis.The thirty-three-year-old designated hitter and sometimes left fielder needs to start hitting. After going 0-for-3 yesterday, Davis is batting .091 with no RBIs. The Rangers already had too many hitters who can’t hit. They didn’t need to trade […]
Some spring training positives: Ronald GuzmanHe continues to make contact and try to earn back his place in the Rangers plans. He’s always been a phenomenal defensive first baseman but it’s a position that demands offense. He seemed to find it in the offseason and it’s carrying over in spring. It […]
What’s the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me five years in a row, please don’t work in the Rangers front office. Those words ring loudly again this spring. As Rougned Odor was rounding the bases after slugging his two-run home […]
You’ve got to love spring training. Everybody feels the best they’ve ever felt. They are in the best shape ever. Their heads are in the best headspace ever. Their new swing has solved the hole in their swing and they will have the best year at the plate ever. Their […]
Last year, the battle for first base was between Ronald Guzman and Greg Bird. They promptly answered the question, what if you had a fight and nobody won? Nobody won. Todd Frazier, who was signed to play third, shifted over to first and Isiah Kiner-Falefa got the chance to start […]
