For a team to get hot, one guy in the lineup needs to ignite it. Shin-Soo Choo has been the blasting cap for this offense almost from the moment he was moved into the leadoff slot. The incredible stats site baseball-reference.com breaks down a hitter by weeks, and there […]
Okay, the winning streak is over. Seven wins in a row is a nice run. Coincidentally, the also-last-place Cincinnati Reds are now currently riding a seven-game winning streak. Every dog must have its day, indeed. Let’s hope Texas doesn’t repeat last year when after their remarkable ten-game winning streak […]
Great pitching. Balanced offense. Power. Speed. The Rangers stretched their winning streak to six games with one of their better games of the season. It starts with pitching, as most success stories do. Mike Minor was awesome last night against the Minnesota Twins, a team that was supposed to […]
Six weeks until the trade deadline. Often, that is a time of optimism for bottom feeding teams like the Ranger. But this has historically been fleecing time for Jon Daniels. Which means, it has been the fuel for the long slow decline of the Texas Rangers. Daniels tends to […]
Don’t look now, but the hottest team in major league baseball is the Texas Rangers. Five wins in a row. It helps that they played the last three against Kansas City, who is a woeful 2-17 in the month of June. But that’s not to take away from last […]
Elvis Andrus is back. All is right in Rangersland. For those who are Sabermetically inclined, Texas is 5-10 in games in which Elvis Andrus has played, which is a .333 winning percentage. They are 24-24 in games in which he did not play. Which is a .414 in games […]
The Rangers started a guy with an ERA of 30.86. The Rockies bullpen is the worst in baseball. Yes, there was going to be offense. A lot of it. Early, late and often. Fortunately for the Rangers, and Rangers fans, it was often and late, as they scored twelve runs […]
It’s amazing how much fun this game is when it’s played right. When the starting pitcher goes seven and gives up only two runs like Mike Minor did yesterday. That’s a rarity with the Rangers, but such a welcome sight. Or, when the Rangers pull off a perfectly executed […]
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 […]
