No pitching. No defense. No offense. No runs. There is nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Guys who didn’t help themselves in this sloppy, sleepy fourteen strikeout dud: Delino DeShields went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts to drop his spring average to .193. I hope we have a self-addressed […]
Yesterday’s 15-8 drubbing of the Angels proves it’s always better to win meaningless games than to lose meaningless games. Better than that, though, is to never forget that these are just meaningless games. To illustrate that, this story: In the spring of 2013, the Red Sox brought their next great phenom […]
A guy named Chi Chi is quickly making a name for himself. Alex “Chi Chi” Gonzalez has a minor league ERA of 2.94 in two short seasons, and just seems to get better and better at every level he pitches. Is he ready to make the jump from AA to […]
Yesterday, Rangers’ fans saw the two biggest Ranger killers in baseball: Kyle Seager. And Runners In Scoring Position. When runners are on base for Seager against the Rangers, he drives them in. Usually with a home run. His three-run homer in the first pretty much ended the game right there. […]
If we got a glimpse into the future, the future is pretty much like the past. Which is to say, not pretty. Thankfully, this is spring training. Thankfully these games don’t count. And, hopefully, this is not what Rangers pitching will look like. The Rangers two-day, two-city doubleheader experience turned out […]
And that was the last time anyone ever saw Anthony Bass… Yes, he was pitching in a stadium only slightly more home run friendly than the new Yankee Stadium. But he was also pitching batting practice. Single, double, home run, walk, single, home run, error, home run. First thing you know, […]
It rained on Wednesday night and there was no tarp, so the field was too wet to play. A rainout in Arizona? I can’t recall the last one of those. But one thing is for certain, with two days off in a row, the Rangers are now worried about their […]
News in spring training is usually hard to come by. As the spring drags on, what constitutes as actual news gets more and more suspect. Especially when you have the rare spring day off. Yesterday’s news from Arlington was the announcement that the Rangers are going to open a concession stand in […]
Wanted: Relief pitcher with a left arm. Must be able to get the ball over the plate. But not too over the plate, those tend to go over the wall. Avoid giving up seven runs an inning, even if it’s a spring game. Sure, those innings don’t count, but it looks […]
MLB Radio’s Jeff Joyce: Can you think of any rotations in the American League worse than the Boston Red Sox? MLB Radio’s Mike Stanton: Texas’s. Texas and Minnesota. And maybe Houston. But, Texas has, by far, the worst starting staff in the American league. I say that keeping in mind that […]