Monthly Archives: January 2021


It begins.

The first projection of the season is in. Anthony Castrovince of MLB ranks the six divisions in baseball, then where each team will finish. The American League West is the fifth strongest division out of the six. It’s hard to argue with that, although his choice for last is the […]


Expect a full season.

On Monday, the Cactus League asked the office of Major League Baseball to delay spring training by three weeks as a way to curb the rise of COVID outbreaks in Arizona. That sent a scare among baseball fans that the 2021 season will be truncated like the 2020 season was. […]


Top 100 prospects.

The annual MLB Pipeline list of Top 100 prospects is out. The Rangers have three on the list: Josh Jung at 63, Sam Huff at 78, Dane Dunning at 91. Dunning will start the season in the Rangers rotation and will probably be the best pitcher they run out there. […]


Top ten outfield prospects.

The MLB.com list of top ten outfield prospects is out. The Rangers don’t have anyone. Joey Gallo was the last, and only, notable outfielder this front office regime has created in its tenure. Maybe even any postion. Nomar Mazara never materialized. He is currently unemployed after having been released by […]


No new Hall of Famers.

For the first time since 1960, nobody was named to the Hall of Fame. In order to be inducted, a player must earn seventy-five percent of the votes from all writers ballots. The highest vote getter was Curt Schilling, a dominating pitcher and by all accounts borderline Hall of Famer […]


Jung on top-ten prospect list.

After releasing its list of top ten second baseman yesterday, MLB.com releases its top ten third basemen prospect list. The Rangers Josh Jung is fifth. Here is their scouting report on Jung: “The best position player in Texas Tech history, Jung went eighth overall in the 2019 Draft after consecutive […]


Foscue ranked 8th best prospect.

Jim Wallis of MLB.com released his list of top second basemen prospects in baseball. The Rangers Justin Foscue is eighth. Foscue was the Rangers first-round pick, and fourteenth overall, in the 2020 draft, out of Mississippi State. The six-foot, 203-pound right handed hitter batted .297 in college, with fewer strikeouts […]


What if.

Baseball owners are notoriously cheap. And they usually get what they pay for. See the Rangers last four seasons and their next few for proof. The passing of Hank Aaron is a reminder of what could have been. And an even bigger reminder of what is. Baseball owners and executives […]


Goodbye, Hank.

This one hurts. Hank Aaron was my favorite player. Hank Aaron was everything that was good about baseball. Hank Aaron was everything good about us. One by one my boyhood heroes have leaving this Earth. Immortal on the baseball field only. In the past six months we’ve lost Tom Seaver, […]


Top free agents ever.

Mike Petriello of MLB.com, in yet another article to fill out the doldrums of the long winter, listed the top ten free-agent signings of all time. That’s quite a task given the long history of major league free agency, which began in 1972, and is obviously subjective, but one Rangers […]