The Red Sox led all of baseball in wins, runs scored, hits, doubles, runs batted in, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS. It’s a powerhouse offense. The Dodgers are the first World Series team to have had more strikeouts than hits. But they sported the second-best team ERA […]
In the Year of Bullpenning, the Milwaukee Brewers found out the hard way that you live with the bullpen and you die with the bullpen. What works in a series against the Padres in July doesn’t work in a playoff series against Los Angeles in October. Even with bullpen […]
The first round is over. It’s time to settle in for some real baseball. The Dodgers visit the Brewers today. Clayton Kershaw is on the mound. Playoff Clayton Kershaw hasn’t been Regular Season Clayton Kershaw, but I’d take him in a heartbeat. He is one of the top pitchers in […]
It wasn’t that it was the Yankees getting pounded that made last night’s game so enjoyable. As far as games go, the competitiveness was over after the Red Sox scored seven runs in the fourth and made it 10-0. This isn’t about Yankee-bashing. No matter what you think of […]
Ten hours of baseball playoffs. Four games. Two close ones, two no-doubters. In the National League, both Milwaukee and Los Angeles took commanding 2-0 leads in much the same way. Their opponents cannot hit. The Braves have yet to score a run. The Rockies have scored two. In the […]
Only five more beatdowns remaining. This is like being forced to binge watch the final season of Happy Days. Way way way after they had jumped the shark. After all the stars had deserted and it was just the C-list celebrities. (The term “jump the shark” came from Happy […]
Sometimes you just have to wait. Last night’s 4-0 gem over the San Diego Padres is a textbook lesson in patience. Possibly the two biggest prospects in the Rangers system the last few years have been Jurickson Profar and Yohander Mendez. Without question the two biggest disappointments have been […]
This is state of Rangers pitching. Rather than going with Austin Bibens-Dirkx, the Rangers went to the waiver heap and picked up Drew Hutchison. He was drafted by the Blue Jays and pitched with them in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016, unspectacularly. Toronto released him. The Pirate picked him […]
The deflation of the talent pool continues. In 2010, the Texas Rangers had six players make the All-Star team roster: Josh Hamilton and Vlad Guerrero as starters along with Cliff Lee, Neftali Feliz, Ian Kinsler and Elvis Andrus The 2011 All-Star team featured five Rangers: Adrian Beltre and Josh […]
During yesterday’s game, after a particulary good at-bat in which Robinson Chirinos battled for a walk with bases loaded to score the Rangers first of what would eventually be six second-inning runs, the Rangers announcers were praising this team on their new patient approach at the plate. This progress […]
