There is some lineup-changing talent available this off-season in right field. But it’s not where the Rangers will be looking as they try to make improvements in 2016. Mainly because Shin-Soo Choo mans right field. His contract is like two cement shoes, which he played like he was wearing for […]
Centerfield is a position that totally transformed itself for the Rangers in 2015. When the season started, it belonged to Leonys Martin. As unspectacular as his first three seasons (actually three seasons and five months of season four) were with the Rangers, he was coming into 2015 off the strength […]
Adrian Beltre is a Hall of Famer in waiting. A member of the 400 Home Run Club. The man with the most hits of any Dominican Republic-born player ever. One of the ten best fielding third basemen in the history of the sport. A man that manager Jeff Banister said […]
It’s almost not worth even looking at the list of free agent second basemen because the Rangers are locked and loaded at that position. Anyway, here are the available second basemen, with their ages in parenthesis: Joaquin Arias (31) Mike Aviles (35) Emilio Bonifacio (31) Stephen Drew (33) Jonathan Herrera (31) […]
Teams have until 5:00 eastern today to make qualifying offers to their free agents. This year, the qualify offer is expected to be $15.8 million. If the player rejects the offer, the team gets the first-round pick from the team that eventually signs its free agent away. Players have seven days […]
It’s free agent season. Hot stoves are blazing all over. Talking heads are speculating on TV. There’s that certain crispness in the air. The crispness of fresh million dollar bills. For the next several days I will list, position by position, the available free agents the Rangers have to choose […]
It’s easy to let the way 2015 ended sour the taste of the good things that happened this season. I am guilty of this, because the season ended with a slap to the face and a punch to the gut. That pain still resonates. But 2015 was a far cry […]
Christian Colon had zero at-bats in the Division Series. Zero at-bats in the Championship Series. And only one at-bat in the World Series. He sure made it count. Behind in the count 0-2 with a runner at third and one out, he fouled off a few pitches, then lined an […]
Mets’ second baseman Daniel Murphy went as Elvis Andrus for Halloween last night, making a soul-crushing error in the eighth inning that cost his team the game. Last night in Game 4, the Kansas City Royals did what they do. They took advantage of a gift, and made the […]
Noah Syndergaard gave the Mets exactly what they needed last night in Game 3. Hope. And life. And momentum. And strikeouts. What he did that few other teams have been able to is miss the Royals bats, getting them to swing and miss. He recorded six strikeouts, if you […]