No industry honors itself more than Hollywood. Baseball is threatening to be a close second. After announcing the Gold Glove Award winners on Tuesday, now they announce their Defensive Player of the Year awards. Okay. They named a players at each position. They named an overall best defensive player (Minnesota’s […]
The 2017 Silver Slugger awards were announced. These are voted as the best offensive player at each position in each league. As with the Gold Glove awards, there were no Rangers. AMERICAN LEAGUE C: Gary Sanchez, Yankees 1B: Eric Hosmer, Royals 2B: Jose Altuve, Astros 3B: Jose Ramirez, Indians SS: Francisco Lindor, Indians OF: Justin Upton, […]
At the end of the season, the Rangers-own CJ Nitkowski tweeted this comparison of where this year’s totals for different statistics stacked up in the 144-year history of MLB. Home Runs: 1 Strikeouts: 1 ERA: 122 Complete Games: 144 (fewest ever) Reliever’s Innings Pitched: 1 Batting Average: 98 (tied) Slugging […]
Is getting to the playoffs enough? There seems to be a sentiment that if you just get in, just win that wild card, anything can happen. True. As Rangers fans know all too well, anything can, indeed, happen. You can lose in the wild card game. You can lose in […]
The Rangers 2018 rotation is beginning to take shape. As the off-season starts to unfold and teams begin the long process of getting rosters ready for 2018, clubs are already starting to decline options on players. It’s already starting to become apparent who the Rangers are going to target to […]
Wasted opportunity again. This time for Los Angeles. Two on, one out in the first. No runs. Two on, one out in the second. No runs. Two on, no outs in the third. No runs. Two on, one out in the fifth. No runs. Two on, no outs in the […]
Wasted opportunity. The Astros had their chances. They didn’t take advantage of them. It wasn’t like Game 5 when it was a video game and you hit a few buttons on a controller and the ball flies out of the park, although if you really are into video games […]
There’s been a lot of baseball chatter on the baseball stations about what is now being called “bullpenning,” this knee jerk over-reliance and over-use of the bullpen. Dave Roberts defended the use of his bullpen by pointing out that he won 104 games during the regular season this way […]
Just when you thought the World Series couldn’t get any more amazing than Game 2, Game 5 comes along. It was the same match-up as Game 1, Dallas Keuchel against Clayton Kershaw. But that’s was about all it had in common with that crispy played two-hour, twenty-eight-minute pitcher’s duel. […]
Baseball has evolved into a game of bullpens. Teams drop $300 million on starters to throw just five innings in critical games. They spend about ten cents on relievers who make or break them. And in bullpen baseball, the Los Angeles Kenley Jansens are a thousand times better than […]