When you go back and relive a season like the Rangers just had, there is naturally going to be some good, some bad, and some ugly. After all, this team was nine games back in late July, until some smart deals at the trade deadline, combined with a gracious collapse by the […]
When the Rangers hit the playoffs at the end of the 2015 season, only two of the nine starting position players (counting the DH) were homegrown: Mitch Moreland and Rougned Odor. And only one backup player: Hanser Alberto. Out of fourteen position players on their playoff roster, only three were […]
It is raining in Dallas. It’s been raining almost twenty-four straight hours and there is no letup in sight. So here is a post from mid-May that seems appropriate today: *** WATER LEVELS. There’s an old saying that players live up to the back of their baseball cards. Meaning, a .260 […]
I am thankful I have an outlet where I can express my opinions about the Rangers every day, and that people actually come back every day. I am thankful that Jerry Jones does not own the Rangers. I am thankful for all the posters on RR3 who make this blog […]
If you recall, the first five weeks of the season the Rangers were unable to win two games in a row. It took a great pitching performance by Wandy Rodriguez to finally make that happen. And, surprisingly, it happened against the first-place Houston Astros. Here is a re-post of that, […]
Since it’s the middle of the offseason and nothing is happening, I’ll re-post some of the articles from this season. Since it’s so close to Thanksgiving, I won’t post anything from April. No reason to ruin everyone’s holiday. Here is a post from May 5 the day after the Rangers beat […]
It’s here. I have just released my new book about the Texas Rangers’ worst-to-first turnaround. It’s called Baseball Town: The Fall and Rise of the Texas Rangers. It’s a compilation of the best of two years worth of RR3 blogs that tell the story of how the Rangers went from last place in 2014 […]
Click here for an interesting take on the Rangers’ off-season outlook, written by Steve Adams of MLBTradeRumors.com a couple of days ago. Interestingly it was reported yesterday there that the Rangers are one of the teams interested in free agent relief pitcher Joakim Soria. Anyway, it’s a good read, and something to do to […]
At least it was close to the Rangers.The American League Cy Young award ended up in the state of Texas. And with a guy named Dallas. If award season tells you anything, it’s where talent levels are. Houston has the American League Cy Young winner and the American League Rookie of the […]
Jeff Banister is all smiles after winning the AL Manager of the Year Award in his first season. It was the year of the rookie managers in the American League. Rangers first-year manager Jeff Banister won the AL Manager of the Year Award over other first-time major league managers […]