You were not dreaming. The Rangers put a runner on first in the top of the ninth. Then the tarp came out. Three and a half hours later, they moved him to second. You could have read War And Peace, painted your house, rebuilt your transmission, watched Prince Fielder run […]
Last year, the Boston Red Sox finished in last place in the American League East on the strength of their horrible starting pitching and bad bullpen. To address their rotation, they signed David Price to a $217 million dollar contract. Suddenly, they had a one-man rotation. Luckily for them, out of […]
The biggest question coming into 2016 was the psyche of Elvis Andrus. When last he was seen, he was sitting alone, stunned, shunned, shaken, embarrassed, perhaps crying, in the Toronto dugout after one of the more crushing personal failures an athlete could have in a team sport. Every man, […]
Dear teammates: Hey, guys, it’s Dyson. How are things going in Arlington? I sure miss you. I am enjoying my vacation. It’s always good to get a few days off and just get away to relax. Pitching in all those games with four- and five- and six-run leads can be […]
Here is the pitching dilemma facing the best team in the American League: 1. They have two types of relief pitchers, either really good or really bad (in all fairness, it’s a situation that is getting much better). 2. Their relief pitchers are really overworked. 3. Their relief pitchers are […]
The Rangers just completed twenty games in twenty days in the most remarkable fashion possible. When they set out on this stretch three weeks ago, knowing that half of those games would be played over a three-city, ten-game road trip, most would have been satisfied if the Rangers went 11-9, maybe […]
Colby is human after all. The six million dollar man is, well, a man. He’s been scientifically rebuilt in the hip, shoulder and elbow. He has survived a line drive off the head, hip replacement surgery, and worse of all, years in Oakland. But the inevitable was eventually inevitiable. […]
This Rangers team is fun to watch. Fun to follow. Fun to talk about. And they are having a lot of fun playing. Fun, that is, for everybody but the manager standing in the opposing dugout. For him, it’s frustration and failure a few other f-words. Texas just finished […]
Thank goodness for pitch count baseball. Thank goodness Mike Matheny is a disciple of Tony LaRussa, who never saw a dominating pitcher he couldn’t yank after one hundred pitches. The Rangers were not going to score off Carlos Martinez. Simple as that. If he went fifteen innings they were […]
Coming out of spring training, Rangers fans could not wait to get Yu Darvish back from Tommy John surgery so he could team up with Cole Hamels to give Texas a pair of aces at the top of the rotation. But things haven’t work out that way. Darvish did come back. […]