In two weeks, the season starts. The silliness of spring training ends, the folly of using closers in the third inning ends, the sleep-inducing practice of giving three at-bats per game to Triple-A players ends. Baseball begins. The Rangers have two weeks to find two starters to round out […]
This is fun baseball to watch. The United States finally made it to the final four in the World Baseball Classic. Good players are finally taking the WBC seriously enough to want to compete. Maybe this will get others to raise their hand as well in future WBC tournaments, if […]
Yesterday, Joey Gallo got two hits. This might be the best news from Surprise this spring. Joey Gallo is making better contact. Every Joey Gallo hit gets the Rangers one step closer to turning him into Jose Quintana, or someone of his ilk. Keep it up, Mr. Gallo. This team […]
MLB.com’s T.R. Sullivan ponders the Rangers eventual opening day twenty-five-man roster. No surprises really, other than his Pollyannaish nod to Chi Chi and Nick. Yes, they have an outside chance. They will start the season outside of Austin in a town called Round Rock. Here is his article.
Baseball is back. Comebacks are back. It’s all so wonderful. Yesterday was a reminder of how incredible the Rangers season was last year. The regular season, that is. All those come-from-behind wins. For the first time in a long time, the Rangers showed the ability to turn around a […]
The Rangers Jerseys have now won three days in a row. Even though none of these games matter and absolutely nobody will be named Cy Young or MVP in March, it’s better than losing. Darvish pitched well, which is something to cling on to, since the role of spring is […]
The bats came out yesterday in Arizona. And for the second day in a row, the Rangers Jerseys won a practice game over the White Sox Jerseys. Will Middlebrooks is trying to rekindle a career that started out so promisingly in 2012. Playing third base for Boston, he hit fifteen […]
There are a lot of new world stats floating around baseball. Some are minutia and would require a degree in Advanced Nerdology to understand and appreciate them. Some are downright silly. Like WAR, what is it good for, absolutely nothing. WAR is a well-meaning but totally misguided attempt to codify […]
Keep telling yourself it’s only spring training. Because, the truth is, it’s only spring training. Even so, we are seeing some ugly baseball played by the Rangers Jerseys. Cole Hamels got battered around, and didn’t even make it past the first inning. So that is two games in a row […]
The Rangers run head first into the World Baseball Classic, playing Team Venezuela tomorrow, with Chi Chi Gonzalez starting. With the uncertainty of the four and five slots in the rotation, Gonzalez is pitching for a major league roster spot. He is the quintessential Quadruple-A player. Great at Triple-A, not […]
