The 2021 Hall of Fame ballot was announced yesterday. Twenty-five players are on the ballot, including eleven first-time players and fourteen returning names. Players remain on the ballot from year to year as long as they receive at least five percent of ballots cast. If they don’t, they are dropped. […]
Question: Over that last two seasons, who is the most productive hitter on the Rangers roster? Answer: Someone who may totally surprise you. Hint: He is one of the worst offensive performers by most statistical standards the past two seasons. Rougned Odor. Odor led the team in RBIs in 2019 […]
Hey, it’s the off-season, after a really bad season, ahead of another really bad season. So, might as well let someone else write this today. Here is an article from T.R. Sullivan in MLB.com about the ten moves the Rangers can make in order to be a contender again. Looking […]
The Miami Marlins finally got their guy. And it was a woman. Yesterday, the first female general manager in North American sports was hired. And from all the talk, it was only about twenty years too late. Kim Ng worked in front offices for twenty-one years, for the White Sox, […]
The M.V.P. Awards in both leagues were announced yesterday. Interestingly, both were first baseman. Jose Abreu from the White Sox. Freddie Freeman from the Braves. All of this underscores the talent decencies the Rangers have in a position that is supposed to be about production. As of now, their first […]
Of all the awards given out in baseball, there isn’t one that is harder to quantify than Manager of the Year. What does that mean? Does that mean the winner is an excellent major league manager? Jeff Banister won the award in 2015. He was fired in 2018. Did he […]
Jim Callis of MLB.com writes about prospects and teams’ farm systems. Here is his analysis of where the Rangers are right now. A lot of good reading there. His top five in the Rangers system are the usual suspects in Josh Jung, Sam Huff, Leody Taveras, Cole Winn, and Maximo […]
While this is no surprise, it’s also not pleasant to read. It’s also not just coming from remote corners of the internet like RR3. The baseball world knows it: the Rangers are bad and will be bad. MLB.com’s Mike Petriello ranked all thirty major league rosters. Good news. The Rangers […]
Jon Daniels has already gone on record saying the Rangers are not going to pursue any major free agent signings this off-season. And he may very well stick to that. But where it gets somewhat tricky is that they need to have some measure of hope if they are interested […]
At the end of every season, the entire staff of Rangers Rounding 3rd gets together to grade the Rangers for the just completed year. This year it’s an incomplete. There were only 60 games. A short season that was cut even shorter one inning into the third game of the […]