Sometimes you wonder if baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has ever watched a baseball game. Yesterday, his office floated out changes they are considering for the playoffs, starting in 2022. (For Rangers fans, the playoffs are the games good teams get to play after the season ends to determine the champion.) […]
So, who is the best closer in the game? And, who is lucky to still have a job? MLB.com’s Will Leitch asked that question. His top 30 closers list came out yesterday. Jose Leclerc came in twenty-seventh. Out of thirty. “He fell off the table right after signing a contract […]
Here’s the unspoken part about this Astros sign stealing, and before that the PED epidemic. Aside from cheating the game, these players embezzled money from their teams. Did any of them give it back? No. Marwin Gonzalez is a prime example. According to all reports, nobody benefited more from the […]
With less than a week before the start of spring training, the Rangers are making finishing touches to their bullpen, signing former Indians closer Cody Allen. Now they have two former closers: Allen and Jose Leclerc. Both had disastrous 2019 seasons and are hoping to find it again in 2020. […]
As the season gets nearer and rosters are pretty well established, more and more sites start releasing their predictions for 2020. So far, there’s no love for the Rangers. Here are two 2020 forecasts. One from a Vegas betting site called Oddsshark.com, the other from USA Today. Not that either […]
One week until pitchers and catchers report. Baseball activity is about to start. Everyone is stretching away the sleep and knocking away the rust and looking ahead to the upcoming season. MLB Network TV put out its top ten at every position. The Rangers had two players there. Robinson Chirinos […]
Greg Bird looked like he was going to be the Yankees first baseman of the future, taking over for Mark Teixeira. He got the job toward the end the 2015 season and hit 11 home runs, driving in 31, in just 46 games. Yankees fans always over value the home run […]
The Rangers might not be good this year but at least they aren’t going to look good not being good. That’s according to The Athletic’s Cliff Corcoran. He ranked all 30 teams’ uniforms for 2020. Dead last? You guessed it. The Texas Rangers. “The Rangers revamped their entire uniform scheme for 2020 […]
Jonathan Mayo released his Best Prospects of the Game list on mlb.com yesterday. The Rangers deep farm system produced zero players in the top ten. But, when you go position by position, it gets a bit better. Texas has the number eight catching prospect in Sam Huff. His projected arrival […]
Jason Stark and Eno Sarris combined for a pretty revealing article in The Athletic yesterday about the true benefit the Astros got from stealing signs. It’s staggering, really. From 2016 to the year they cheated in 2017, the Astros had the biggest drop in strikeout percentage in the history of […]
