Well, that was a lost weekend. The Rangers came home riding the high of a 4-2 road trip. Their homecoming hit a brick wall with a devastating thud, being swept in their first home series of the year by Cincinnati, managing to score only four runs in the three-game series. […]
The Rangers returned home for the 2026 season on Friday. Unfortunately, it was the 2025 Rangers. The Rangers who cannot hit. The Rangers who have no reliable bullpen. Texas suffered its first shutout of the young season yesterday when they subjected their fans to nine innings of offensive futility. After […]
The Rangers lack of a bullpen has already turned into a problem. Right now they don’t seem to have any high-leverage guys. Tyler Anderson has been reliable, having appeared in four of the Rangers first seven games, with two saves. But he cannot appear in every game. And, it seems, […]
It’s opening day again. The joy of opening the season on the road is you get to experience opening day on opening day. And you get to experience opening day again. After winning their first two series on the road, the 4-2 Rangers are back in The Baseball Shed to […]
The Rangers have two losses. Both belong to Nathan Eovaldi. Yes, both games were against the other team’s ace, but Eovalid was not ace-like in either. Yesterday, the ace he went up against was Baltimore’s Trevor Rogers, who tossed up a 1.81 ERA last year in eighteen starts, slightly higher […]
Even though the Rangers are 4-1 and seeming clicking on all cylinders, there are still a few hitters who have yet to get it going. Josh Jung is 0-for-17. He got a night off. Joc Pederson was 0-for-4. He got a start and went 0-for-4. And Wyatt Langford was 2-for-19 […]
Is Tyler Alexander the Rangers closer? He certainly played the role last night. With the Rangers having only a three-run lead, new manager Skip Schumaker made the decision to close with Alexander over Robert Garcia or Chris Martin. Smart choice. With a 5-2 lead in the ninth, and with the […]
The Rangers got out of Philadelphia with two wins, no assaults, no closer, an offense that made up for a bullpen that walked ten batters in three games. MacKenzie Gore’s first start echoed what he has done in his career. Five stellar innings, loads of strikeouts, unable to get out […]
There’s an old saying that goes, “You invest in what matters.” Conversely, you don’t invest in what doesn’t matter. And what doesn’t matter to Chris Young and the Rangers is a closer. That’s the only way anyone can rationally describe this franchise’s mindset when it comes to closers. Blowing leads, […]
The Rangers resume action today after much needed off day. Jacob deGrom takes the ball today. While he had a successful 2025 season, he was prone to giving up the long ball, surrendering 26 homers. It was the second-most he’d giving allowed in one season in his career. The long […]
