I ran across an article yesterday on BleacherReport.com that I thought was fun. It’s about major league records you might not know. Everybody knows the big ones: Hank Aaron has the most legitimate home runs, 755. Ty Cobb’s highest lifetime batting average was .368. Pete Rose has the most hits: 4,256. […]
Prediction season continues on this off day as the Rangers move from Arizona to Arlington for two more practice games Friday and Saturday. Here is how I see the season playing out: AL East: 1 Boston—Pitching will not be as dominating as thought. Chris Sale will battle for Cy Young. […]
Is this year’s team better than last year’s team? It might be. Slightly. Take a look at the infield. While three of the four are the same—Beltre, Andrus and Odor—Napoli replaces Moreland, which puts the offense miles ahead of last year’s. Defense, not so much. Moreland drove in 60 runs; […]
The season hasn’t even started yet, but T. R. Sullivan wrote an interesting article about what happens at the trade deadline if all fails. The Rangers have a lot of talent to ship off. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen. This isn’t 2014. The team coming into 2017 is much stronger than […]
As we head into 2017, it’s time to rub off the sting of last year’s Division Series that still resonates. One pertinent question to learn from is, “How does a 95-win team crash and burn like that in the post-season?” This might explain it. The Rangers won 95 games during […]
One week left. Thank goodness. Spring training is like Mississippi. No matter how much fun it’s going to be at the beach, you still have to drive through Mississippi to get to Florida. There are four practice games in Surprise, an off day Thursday. Then two practice games at the […]
Rangers fans have waited for this moment for a long time, but Profar is finally turning heads in spring training. It’s not the Profar you are thinking about, though. Juremi. Not Jurickson. In nine games, and twelve at-bats, kid brother Juremi is hitting .333 with an OPS of .917. […]
Ugly baseball returned to Surprise. In a spring that has seen a lot of bad baseball from Rangers Jerseys, last night’s game was perhaps of the worst. It was 10-0 before the Dodgers allowed the Rangers two pity runs in the bottom of the ninth. The Rangers failed on the mound, […]
How do you say “mercy rule” in Spanish? That’s how dominate USA was over its step child Puerto Rico in the championship game of the World Baseball Classic. It starts and ends with pitching, as it always does. And Marcus Stroman was at his facing-the-Texas-Rangers-in-the-playoffs best. Puerto Rico got one hit […]
The names roll off the tongue like a who’s who on the witness protection program. All the greats: Beck, Mendez, Hernandez, Puello, Lerud, De Leon. It was an exhibition season classic. Practice-game minor league baseball at its best. Double-A and Triple-A Rangers hitting off Double-A and Triple-A White Sox pitching. Who wouldn’t […]
