Last night’s game was the most important game in 2020 for the Texas Rangers. Maybe even the most important in the last few years. That’s because this team has to be stripped to the studs and totally rebuilt. And the only way to do that is to start selling off […]
Kolby Allard was one of the few bright spots last season. After coming to Texas in a trade with Atlanta for reliever Chris Martin, the then twenty-two-year-old started nine games, winning four and losing two. The Rangers won six of those nine games. It was encouraging. His ERA wasn’t the […]
Nick Goody has pitched 145 major league innings. It’s doubtful he has pitched one quite like his eighth-inning performance last night. Goody was called into the game with bases loaded and his team trailing 3-1. A two-run deficit for this team is nearly as insurmountable as Mount Everest in the […]
Losing nine of the last ten games means you have to look for rays of hope in other places. You won’t find them in the standings. One of those rays is Nick Solak. The Rangers seem to have a bona fide player in Nick Solak. Ironically, speaking of rays of […]
Yes, Lance Lynn is a bulldog. Yes, he has an incredible streak going of thirty games in a row with 100 pitches or more. Yes, he goes deep into games and hates being taken out. Yes, he is cut from the old-school cloth. But, with all due respect to Lance […]
The Rangers are back to where they started. After eight straight losses, their winning percentage now sits at .370. If this were a full season—and thank the baseball gods it’s not—this team would win 60 games. This franchise has not seen this level of futility since they arrived in Arlington. […]
Yes. The Rangers did it. They scored a run. Rangers fans knew it would happen sooner or later. Would it be Saturday night? Sunday afternoon? Sometime in September? It was last night’s game, in the third inning. It was a thing of beauty. An unselfish act of teamwork and athleticism. […]
This is really what it’s about. It’s not about winning. Not in 2020. It’s about seeing what they have. Seeing if they have anything salvageable. And giving a kid a chance at the dream. Kyle Cody got his chance last night in Seattle. And he made the most of it. […]
Every aspect of this team’s weakness was on display during this four-game fiasco against San Diego. No offense. Sloppy defense. Bad bullpen. Thin rotation. Weak manager. This team is getting worse by the season. And there isn’t a whole lot of talent in the pipeline to save the day. The […]
Buried at the end of the story about Mike Minor’s struggles in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News was an item that was worthy of an eyebrow raise. Rangers hitting coach Luis Ortiz was talking to Evan Grant about the struggles of Rougned Odor and Elvis Andrus. Ortiz said that their being […]
