Jeff Banister must be a sadist. Why else does someone, in a razor thin 2-0 game, decide to insert Ross Detwiler into the mix? Maybe he has a mean streak. Or maybe he just realizes luck is on his side so he is bulletproof. Maybe he’s the kind of guy who likes dropping […]
Let’s say Joey Gallo performs so well they cannot send him back down. Then what? And what does him performing so well they cannot send him back down look like? After 24 at bats, Gallo seems to be holding his own. He’s batting .292, with a very good OBP of .370 […]
The Rangers are off today. It’s draft day. The Rangers have been off a lot on draft day. Historically, draft day has been more like D-Day for Jon Daniels. He has been very unlucky. As Evan Grant pointed out in a Dallas Morning News article yesterday, early draft success is rare under Daniels. Since taking over […]
It might be time to stop mentioning April. That Rangers team is gone. Both figuratively and literally. The April team was a bad team that was playing worse. Detwiler was in the rotation. Feliz was the closer. Martin was the centerfielder and leadoff hitter. Andrus batted second. It was […]
Kevin Brown. Len Barker. Scott Chiamparino. Alex Gonzalez. By pitching a shutout last night, Gonzalez put his name in the Rangers record book alongside some other well known, and not so well remembered, names. Kevin Brown was the last Ranger to throw a complete game in his second […]
Fourteen runners left on base. Thirteen strikeouts. Four errors. Two runs scored A win. The Ranger played April ball but got May results. Don’t ask how. Baseball makes no sense. Just take it and move on to Kansas City.
With one of the most impotent lineups that has ever been assembled, a lineup even two Viagras couldn’t have helped, the Texas Rangers faced one of the most difficult pitchers in the American League. The outcome of this game was determined the moment Elvis Andrus’s name was written in the number […]
Sorry, there is no article today. Last night’s Rangers game was postponed to bring you a Disney movie: The Joey Gallo Story. How else can you explain what happened? First it was Josh Hamilton. Now Joey Gallo. The team that had a dark cloud saddled around its neck has suddenly been […]
After seeing how the Rangers have turned around their season from a dismal April to a nearly mirror image May, I had a thought about why the slow start. It was further strengthened by something Nick Martinez said on MLB Radio. A reporter asked Martinez about the Rangers turnaround and […]
Two home runs on Friday. Two inning-changing walks on Saturday. So what does Josh Hamilton do for a Sunday encore? A two-out bases clearing game winning pinch hit double to turn a 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 Rangers win and send the Red Sox limping out of town having […]