Andrew Cashner has been one of the few pleasant surprises for the Rangers in 2017. Coming off a horrible season, with an ERA over 5.00 and a WHIP over 1.50, Jon Daniels tossed more money at Cashner than he could have ever thought possible. Drunken sailor on shore leave […]
Jeff Banister has made a lot of curious moves in his nearly three years at the helm of the Texas Rangers. Most of them have centered around his struggles at handing a bullpen. He rode Shawn Tolleson so hard for five games in a row to close out the […]
The 2017 Rangers season, as told by a dung beetle. (Click on image to play video.) ***** TODAY’S GAME: Mike Leake (9-12, 4.10) vs. Martin Perez (12-10, 4.81) Game time: 7:05 How the Mariners hit against Perez. How the Rangers hit against Leake
Nineteen games left. It’s always bittersweet when a season winds down, like shuttering a summer home for the winter. Or like what is happening to more and more concession stands in the Ballpark lately. They aren’t even bothering to open them. Apathy reigns. But the way the last two […]
Talk about parity. There are six teams that are fighting for that second wild card slot. Five of those six have 71 wins: Kansas City, Texas, Baltimore, Seattle, and Tampa Bay. The Royals and Rangers have 71 losses. The Orioles and Mariners have 72, and the Rays have 73. […]
You don’t straddle .500 for an entire season without having deficiencies. Often many. While the offense was an early-season problem, it hasn’t been of late. Prior to yesterday, the Rangers had scored double-digits in three of the seven September games, and no fewer than four runs in any game […]
Maybe this Rangers team has actually figured it out, whatever it is. Yesterday’s game was the kind they would normally have lost, getting in a hole early and never clawing back from. Martin Perez wasn’t great, but his offense bailed him out once again, roaring back from a […]
While the Rangers cling onto their wild card hopes like Jack Dawson clung to that drifting piece of furniture in the frigid Atlantic in Titanic, it’s worth noting that the second wild card has historically been a team that has had a pretty good season. This year’s Race of […]
After a weekend series in which the Rangers’ overworked and undermanned bullpen was overtaxed yet again, blowing one game late and threatening to blow the other two against the Los Angeles Trouts of Mike Trout, the following is a public service to all major league managers on how to […]
An old nemesis showed up again last night in Arlington: the Rangers bullpen collapse. And while that was the Rangers’ nineteenth blown save of the season, you may be surprised to realize that last night’s blown save was the Rangers first since July 2. The bullpen went fifty-two games […]