When there’s no baseball, there are lists. MLB.com released its top ten bullpens for 2020. The Rangers didn’t make the list. Here’s who did. 1. New York Yankees.2. San Diego Padres.3. Milwaukee Brewers.4. Tampa Bay Rays.5. Minnesota Twins.6. New York Yankees.7. New York Mets.8. Oakland Athletics.9. Houston Astros.10. Los Angeles […]

Jamey Newberg of The Athletic asked Michael Young to name the ten greatest players he ever played against. His list: 10. Roberto Alomar—the guy could do it all. 9. Albert Pujols—best hitter in baseball for a decade. 8. Ichiro—Young had a higher OPS, in fact. 7. Chipper Jones—too bad he […]

When the fastball from Julio Urias broke his jaw, it also broke Willie Calhoun’s heart. He had gone through so many setbacks, many of his own doing, to earn the opening day starting left field assignment, that in an instant that went away. Now, it seems, it didn’t. Calhoun’s jaw […]

This shut down, while a nuisance for fans, an inconvenience for players, and a minor scheduling change for owners, is devastating to the average people who work for these major league clubs for a living. Thousands of ballpark employees, through no fault of their own, essentially have lost their jobs […]

We moved to Dallas in 1994. That coincided with the year the Rangers grew up. When they went from being a placeholder in the American League to a franchise that was actually trying to take itself seriously. It was the first time in my life I lived in a town […]

The first time I went to a major league baseball game was in the early 70s. I was twelve or thirteen or fourteen years old. I grew up in Indianapolis. We had a minor league team. The Indianapolis Indians. They were the Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, my favorite […]

No baseball, no basketball, no hockey, no soccer. No concerts, no church services, no air travel. No bottled water. No toilet paper. No paper towels. It’s as if people are preparing for the end of the world. And it’s not. It’s just the pause button. Like a break in the […]

Maybe there is a dark rain cloud hanging over this franchise.   The Washington Senators moved to Texas in 1972. That season was delayed by around ten days by a players’ strike, the work stoppage in baseball history. Some teams lost as many as nine games, some as few as six. But none […]

And now we wait. That’s all we can do. Try to contain this thing. Try to keep it in check so hospitals and health care workers aren’t pushed beyond their limits. Just wait it out. Like a rain delay. A really really long rain delay. There will be baseball again.