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 […]
Attendance is down in baseball ten percent. Attendance is down in Arlington fifteen percent. That is according to the Dallas Morning News. But you don’t have to read the local paper to know that. All you have to have is a working pair of eyes, or even one working […]
It looks like this year is going to be the year Rangers fans see the future. Gallo, Mazara, Odor. After all those years at the helm, all those draft picks that didn’t pan out, all those prospects that were traded for the likes of Matt Garza and Ryan Dempster, Jon […]
A win is a win, even when it doesn’t count. And it’s good to see the Rangers Uniforms get a come-from-behind win in spring training against the White Sox Uniforms. A solo home run by phenom right fielder Ryan Hood in the seventh tied the game, and then much heralded […]
