Team USA proved something to the world that Rangers fans have been painfully familiar with the last two years. If you can’t hit, you can’t win—no matter how great your pitching is. The Americans ripped through Brazil and Great Britain in pool play, winning 15-5 and 9-1. Then, the offense […]
Baseball matters. People who hate the sport will say otherwise. They’ll say it’s dying. It’s boring. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Watching the World Baseball Classic will tell you everything you need to know about the world’s love for baseball. Granted, it’s not as ingrained into the soul of every […]
With just a few weeks left in camp, the Rangers signed one reliever and DFAed another. Left-handed reliever Jalen Beeks signed a one-year deal with Texas to join their evolving, closer-less bullpen. The seven-year veteran pitched for Arizona last year, getting into 61 games including two starts, pitching to a […]
Suddenly, Team USA goes from being invincible to needing a whole lot of help. In a costly upset, Italy beats this stacked powerhouse of an American team 8-6. So now, USA’s future in the World Baseball Classic comes down to tonight’s Italy-Mexico game. With their defeat of USA, the Italians […]
The Rangers added yet another veteran to their outfield-designated hitter mix with the signing of Andrew McCutchen. He’s a former MVP who logged twelve years with the Pirates, making the all-star team for five straight years from 2011 to 2015, a five-year period where he was elite, batting .302, with […]
Team USA won its first World Baseball Classic pool game against Brazil. That was no surprise. This is a stacked team, top to bottom, and it should have no problem cruising all the way to the final, gold medal game. Brazil isn’t known as a baseball powerhouse. In fact, there […]
The Rangers are at the halfway point of spring training. Brandon Nimmo made his first appearance in a spring training game yesterday. That was by design. When the soon-to-be thirty-three-year-old outfielder came to the Rangers in the Marcus Semien deal from the Mets, Nimmo asked new Texas manager Skip Schumaker […]
On the heels of a winter Olympic games that saw national pride in USA men’s and women’s hockey, the World Baseball Classic gets underway today. The WBC was hatched because of the Olympics, in fact. When baseball was dropped from the summer Olympics, Major League Baseball decided to conduct its […]
The Josh Jung redemption tour hit a snag. On Saturday, he went down with “something in his hamstring” as he described it. That something is a Grade 1 adductor strain. It’s expected he will miss two weeks. Injuries have plagued Jung his entire career. Last year, though, he was injury […]
Only two major league teams in 2025 failed to have a closer to record double-digit saves. One was the lowly White Sox. The other, as you may have guessed from the name of this blog, was your Texas Rangers. Now, that doesn’t mean they were at the bottom two teams […]
