Maybe a better name for the Rangers new Ballpark is the Arlington Rehabilitation Center. Because they Rangers are piling on the players that desperately need to rehab their careers. Khris Davis, Delino DeShields, Mike Foltynewicz. And now Brock Holt. Texas signed Holt to a minor league deal (so they don’t […]
Khris Davis has said he doesn’t like the nickname Krush and doesn’t want it used again. Yet, that’s all the local media has called him. Welcome to Dallas, Khris, where the local media still calls the Cowboys “America’s Team” even though the Cowboys haven’t been relevant for 25 years. The […]
Some of the talk show hosts on MLB Radio have a running gag. Whenever they want to say the F-word, in order to keep it clean, they substitute Foltynewicz instead. “What in the Foltynewicz was Kevin Cash thinking about pulling Blake Snell in Game 6?” “Why in the Foltynewicz is […]
One week. One week until Rangers pitchers and catchers report to Surprise. One week until baseball activity resumes. One week before the season is one positive COVID test away from being temporarily shut down. Last season, the league and players went to extraordinary lengths to get a shortened season complete. […]
The Rangers didn’t just pick up Khris Davis from the Athletics, they also got twenty-five-year-old catcher Johan Heim. A fourth-round pick by the Baltimore Orioles in 2013, Heim was traded to Tampa Bay in August of 2016, then was the player to be named later in a trade to Oakland […]
So, now the question is, now that the Rangers have Khris Davis, what happens with the logjam? They already have two guys whose only real position is Designated Hitter in Willie Calhoun and Nick Solak. Now, with Davis, three. They’ve made rumblings that Solak will play second but it’s certainly […]
New Rangers General Manager Chris Young was on MLB Network Radio yesterday. He spoke about the huge hole the Rangers have on the left side of their infield. They don’t have a bonafide third baseman. So, Young said, it’s going to be a competition between Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor. […]
Add one more title to Joey Gallo’s resumé. Recruiter. It seems he was responsible for the Rangers signing David Dahl. The two met while playing as teenagers, competing in a Team USA 18-and-under camp for a shot at the Pan American Championship games in 2011. Gallo, a year older, saw […]
Texas Rangers beat writer Kennedi Landry wrote a fun article yesterday on MLB.com. She named the five best debut seasons in Rangers history. Not rookies. First seasons. Josh Hamilton’s 2008 season. Nolan Ryan’s 1989 season. Alex Rodriguez’s 2001 season. Fergie Jenkins’s 1974 season. Adrian Beltre’s 2011 season. Here is the […]
Sure, it’s easy to look at these guys on the field as just products. Get out there, do your job, come back tomorrow for more of the same. Hey, we bought a ticket, let’s see you perform. They’re getting paid millions of dollars to do what any of us would […]
