Yesterday’s news that the Rangers let go beloved pitching coach Mike Maddux came on the heels of last week’s announcement that Rangers’ hitting coach Dave Magadan was let go. When I heard that, I wasn’t sure what the bigger news was. That the Rangers fired their hitting coach, or that they even had a […]
The Kansas City Royals are the team that doesn’t strike out. The bottom of the fourth inning in Game 2 of last night’s World Series epitomized what makes the Royals the best team in the American League, and pretty close to being the best team in baseball. Jacob deGrom is […]
Baseball is a game of redemption as much as it is a game of execution. In the top of the eighth inning, with the score tied 3-3, the Mets were batting with two outs and nobody on. Juan Lagares singled. Stole second. Then scored on a rare Eric Hosmer […]
I”m looking forward to the World Series. It looks to be pretty evenly matched. What the Mets did to the Cubs, though, was no fluke. This is a very good team. Like the Rangers, the Mets remade their team at the Trade Deadline, and things totally clicked. Before the All-Star game, […]
Not counting what the Royals have done this year and last year, in the last thirty years, six teams have been to back-to-back World Series. Five of those six won at least one championship. Oakland made it into the World Series three years in a row, in 1988, ’89 and ’90, and won it […]
No matter which team you were, or you were rooting for, this is how you want it to end. The Royals, you want your stud closer on the hill. The Blue Jays, you want your probably MVP. All-Star against All-Star. Power against power. Wade Davis against Josh Donaldson. Davis bent, but […]
Today’s Dallas Morning News has a great article called “Keep ’em or Leave ’em.” You can vote on which of players whose contracts for next year aren’t already locked in you want to keep as a Ranger or see leave. It’s a fun quiz. Take it here. The problem is, it leaves […]
The Kansas City Royals just keep on hitting. After scoring eight runs on fifteen hits Monday, in a game they lost, the Royals kept up the hit parade on Tuesday. It started in the first inning with four runs, and never really let up. When it was all said and […]
The Rangers had the mantra Never Ever Quit. They lost more than 80 percent of their games when they trailed after the fourth inning. While they may not have quit, they also didn’t get results. Watching the Kansas City, you see a team that really does live by the Never […]
David Price was cruising. It was the bottom of the seventh. His Blue Jays were leading 3-0. He had retired nineteen batters in a row. Then the bottom fell out. Actually, what fell was an easy pop up in the outfield that should have been caught by the second baseman […]