It’s said that everyone has a doppelganger, an exact double living somewhere on this planet that looks and acts just like they do. One rarely sees his own doppelganger in person. So imagine the shock Matt Moore got last night when his exact identical pitching double appeared before […]
The Yohander Mendez era begins today. Barren of arms in the rotation, and infertile of major-league ready pitching, the Rangers are turning to their number seven prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, for an extended look. He’s been a September call-up the last two seasons, and was up for the […]
When you are a bad team, nothing goes right. The nights you get great starting pitching, your offense doesn’t show up. The nights the offense lights it up, the pitching burns it down. You lose low scoring games. You lose laughers. You lose close games. You lose with games […]
The Dodgers rotation has so many injuries, they are regularly having a bullpen day, where the entire game is manned by relief pitchers. They did that last night against the Rangers. That is by design. The Rangers rotation has so many Rangers, they regularly have a bullpen day as […]
According to Sportrac, which tracks this sort of thing, the Texas Rangers have the fourteenth largest payroll in baseball for 2018: $143,911,000 million. For their money, the Rangers are not getting their money’s worth. Look at the team Jon Daniels has assembled for nearly $144 million: The Rangers have […]
You have to give the Rangers credit. At least they are finding inventive ways to lose ball games. After leaving a franchise-record seventeen runners on base to lose Saturday’s game, a balk that was so elusive neither the home plate or first base umpires saw it did in the […]
It’s almost impossible to lose a game like that. How do you not win when the other team walks ten of your batters, hits five of them, gives up five base hits, and blows a potential bases-loaded inning-ending double play? How do you have twenty base runners and come […]
“I thought he pitched well,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said of Doug Fister’s performance last night. “There were some ground balls that got through.” Fister pitched so well he allowed five runs in six innings and fell to 1-7 with a 4.50 ERA. And the reason he lost is because […]
Lately, the Rangers TV announcers have been making a big deal about the offense being second in the American League in walks. It’s the patient approach. They are showing incredible patience. What great strides they are making as hitters. Texas had drawn the second-most walks to the Yankees in […]
Jurickson Profar had a night. His first multi-home run game, and his career high in RBIs with five. The former number-one prospect in all of the world has been mostly a disappointment in his career. But, in his defense, he has been jacked around, moved from position to position, […]
