That’s two encouraging starts in a row from two young pictures. Kyle Cody on Friday and Kolby Allard on Thursday. And even though they both resulted in losses, that’s not important at this point. What is important is finding out who can play major league baseball, and who can’t. You […]
There are a lot of major leaguers who are vastly overpaid. The industry is filled with .183-hitting shortstops making $15 million per year. But nobody is more overpaid than Luis Ortiz and Callix Crabbe. They are the Ranger hitting coaches. Texas is 30th of 30 teams in batting average and […]
Back in 1978, I was in college. In June, I had just completed by my sophomore year. Everyone who knew me knew I was a huge Cincinnati Reds fan. Living on my dorm floor my first two seasons were twins David and Mark Block who just so happened to graduate […]
The Rangers won yesterday. It’s so rare they don’t even know how to handle it. Here is the score from texasrangers.com. Apparently, the Rangers are unaware of the concept of the team with the big T logo having more runs than the team they are playing. Either that or, in […]
The trade deadline passed and the Rangers, a team in desperate need of rebuilding, weren’t able to do much in the way of home improvement. They needed a new roof, a new kitchen, and a major update of the master bedroom. They painted the garage door. Mike Minor, who wasn’t […]
The entire Rangers season, and current state of the Rangers franchise, can be summed up in the third inning of yesterday’s game. Down 4-0, the Rangers loaded the bases off Dodgers rookie—a rookie—Tony Gonsolin. The only way they were able to score was from a wild pitch. Nobody got a […]
Welcome back, Ronald Guzman. The Rangers could really really use someone at first who can catch the ball. When you think about it, that’s the really the most important part of the deal. In fact, if you were writing a job description for the position of first base, it would […]
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 […]
