Top Ten Moment #5: Nomar Mazara picks up his 100th RBI. Milestones are nice. Even numbers are nice. Nobody likes ending a season batting .299. They want .300. It just looks better. When you read .299, that pesky “2” stands out like sore thumb. It wants to tell your brain, […]
Seasons greetings from Rangers Rounding 3rd.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget these players are humans. When you are a kid, they are your superheroes. They can do no wrong, even if they strike out four times a game or give up ten runs in the first. You love them, you defend them, you live and die […]
Lost in the media hoopla and fan frenzy and pre-world Series parade planning over the Rangers bolstering their pitching staff with key additions of Mike Minor, Doug Fister, and Matt Moore, was the acquisition of a new center fielder in the Rule 5 draft. The Rangers have their next Delino […]
The irony is rich here with Martin Perez. A pitcher who should be in the Rangers bullpen had his 2018 season derailed by a bull in a pen on his ranch. Reports are he fractured a bone in his non-pitching (right) elbow after being startled by a bull on his […]
THE END. Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment # 6 of the Rangers 2017 season. Here is what I wrote about it at the time. Reposted from the morning after Joey Gallo hit his 40th and then 41st home run of the year, October 1, 2017. It was also the […]
Top Ten Moment #6: Joey Gallo hits home run number 40. There was no greater redemption story in 2017 than the story Joey Gallo wrote. After his dismal 2016, he was pretty much written off by everyone, his manager and, whether he wanted to admit it, probably himself. The […]
The San Francisco Giants are trying to shed payroll because they want to make a run at J. D. Martinez. They needed to find someone to dump a salary on. They found a team desperate for starting pitching: the Texas Rangers and their wafer-thin system. So, Friday night, the […]
On the day that former Rangers All-Star Ian Kinsler became a Los Angeles Angel, the current Rangers are talking to Brandon Kintzler as a potential bullpen piece, along with Fernando Rodney. Rodney is the guy who can’t seem to figure out how to put on his cap. It’s always crooked. […]
Rumor has it that the Rangers are talking to the Diamondbacks about Zack Greinke. It makes no sense from Arizona’s standpoint. Why would the Diamondbacks trade Greinke? Why would a team that is on the upswing, that won 93 games, that made the post-season, trade their best pitcher? Yes, he […]