Remember Ronald Guzman? The Condor. The six-foot, five-inch Dominican slugger who was the Rangers first baseman of the future. He was everything you’d want in a first baseman. Tall, with the ability to stretch out inches further than most first baseman and turn bang-bang singles into outs. Everything you’d want, […]
It seems the trade talk for a left fielder has died down. Which usually means a trade will happen any moment. So, for now, the Rangers are going into the season with the same offense they ended the season with. Lowe at first. Semien at second. Seager at short. Jung […]
Last night on MLB TV, they showed the Blue Jays-Rangers game from May 1, 1991. It was Nolan Ryan going for his seventh no-hitter. I watched the game even though the drama of whether he would get it or not was spoiled long ago. Hint: He gets it. (Which reminds […]
With about five weeks to go before spring training, the Rangers are still looking for that bat. They are still looking for that left fielder. Most of the left fielders that would cost them only money—the free agent kind—are gone. There are a few remaining, though. Trading for a guy […]
Wow, what a difference an off-season makes. And a new general manager. Last year, after a 102-loss campaign, the Rangers went into the 2022 season with this rotation: Jon Gray, Dane Dunning, Spencer Howard, Taylor Hearn, and Martín Pérez. Yes, Martín Pérez was the fifth starter. Worse, Jon Gray was […]
This one is for all the Jon Daniels fanboys out there. As this first winter with Chris Young at the helm to try to create a Rangers team with relevance, we here at RR3 stumbled upon a few interesting tidbits that explain why Chris Young is at the helm and […]
The Rangers weren’t able to convince Clayton Kershaw to leave Los Angeles to come to Arlington. So, they did the next best thing. They plucked Andrew Heaney from the Dodgers. Well, to be fair, the next best pitcher on the Dodgers was not Heaney. He was about sixth best. But, […]
Maybe the Rangers luck is turning. Maybe the dark cloud over this franchise is slowly lifting. MLB held its first draft lottery yesterday. The Rangers came out way ahead. To discourage tanking, the players and owners negotiated a draft lottery. Players were tired of teams deliberately losing so they could […]
Experience counts. That seems to be the difference between the new Chris Young regime and the old Jon Daniels regime. Young’s first major hire since taking over for the fired Jon Daniels was a manager. Unlike Daniels who gravitated to inexperience, first-time managers with all three he hired—Ron Washington, Jeff […]
Martin Perez is coming back. He agreed to the qualifying offer the Rangers extended to him, meaning he will make $19.65 million in 2023. It’s a one-year deal, which isn’t the multi-year deal most players seek. But it’s $19.65 million. He wasn’t going to get that per year in a […]
