The Dodgers traded for Tarik Skubal. That was totally expected. But something seems odd about it: They didn’t give up much for him. It’s almost as if it was a foregone conclusion with the owners that the Dodgers would land him to prove a point. Baseball needs a salary cap. […]
Corey Seager came back, got two hits, and it didn’t matter. The Rangers lost. Actually, it wasn’t a loss. It was a mugging. It was a beatdown. The Rangers were humiliated 11-2 in Houston by the Astros who have moved into first place in the pitiful A.L. West. The perpetually […]
The Rangers send out surveys from time to time, asking fans their thoughts on the season, their level of fandom, thoughts about The Baseball Shed, their City Connect uniforms, things like that. One question they ask is to describe the Rangers in one word. The most appropriate word to describe […]
With Monday’s trade deadline staring down at them, the Rangers made a deal yesterday that helps them in two areas: catcher and bullpen. You wouldn’t think they’d need catching help going into the season with Kyke Higoshioka and Danny Jansen expected to split time. Neither was a huge offensive threat, […]
If this seems like the best the Rangers have been, you’re right. Three games over .500 is their high-water mark, achieved three times. After the fourth game of the season when they were 4-1. Now, after the 107th game of the season, they are 55-52. It took them 103 games […]
The Rangers crushed George Kirby’s dominance. Literally crushed it. George Kirby had owned the Rangers over his career. In 12 career starts against the Rangers, he’d allowed just 11 earned runs. That’s in 74.1 innings pitched. And in all that time, the Rangers were able to muster only four home […]
Apparently, it was too much to expect the Rangers to sweep the four games against the Mariners. They won the first two and had a lead two-thirds of the way into the third. It looked promising. Then the Mariners bats woke up, they scored four runs in the top of […]
After the first two games of this all-important Texas-Seattle series, the Rangers are making a statement: The Mariners aren’t very good. You look at the pre-season predictions and teams all across baseball are just not living up to their expectations. Toronto and Seattle were in the Championship Series last year. […]
They’re the worst offensive team in baseball. Second-lowest team batting average of all 30 teams. Scored the second-fewest runs. Second-worst OPS. Third-fewest hits. No, not the Rangers. The Mariners. Seattle has turned into what Texas was early in the season: boring. Imagine an entire lineup of Corey Seagers. Guys who […]
It’s not an overstatement to say that this upcoming four-game series between Seattle and Texas is the most important series of the season for the Rangers. There are five potential outcomes: 1. They sweep, gaining four games on Seattle. 2. They go 3-1, gaining two games. 3. They split, treading […]
