Yearly Archives: 2015


Kids in the haul, 2015. 173 comments

Last year, I did a recap of the winter meetings, talking about Ross Detwiler, Delino DeShields, and Scott Barnes. Barnes was released a couple of days later without throwing a single pitch for the Rangers. Detwiler was released in mid-July, having thrown far too many pitches for the Rangers. And […]


Netting. 77 comments

The biggest news the Rangers have created this Winter Meeting is that their netting complies with MLB’s new standards. Read about it here. Compliance with the net laws is the most important announcement the Rangers have made this off season.  


Executive of the year. 99 comments

As good of a trade deadline as Jon Daniels had, he was overshadowed this year by Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore, who was honored as the game’s Best Executive last night at the Winter Meetings in Nashville. The Best Executive award is a combination of balloting by fans, the […]


Elvis week concludes on a positive note. 160 comments

Baseball’s Winter Meetings start tomorrow in Nashville. Last year’s haul from the Winter Meetings were Ross Detwiler, Delino DeShields and Scott Barnes (who the Rangers turned around and released a few days later). So in celebration of the beginning of potential game-changing deals, and this being the last day of Elvis week, and this being the […]


Elvis for three. 310 comments

Elvis Andrus hit a career-high seven home runs in 2015, and drove in sixty-two runs, second most of his career. But for the fourth year in a row, his batting average and on-base percentage slipped. His month-by-month batting average splits were a tale of two seasons. He was pretty bad […]


Elvis week continues. 163 comments

It’s Elvis week at RR3. Yesterday I re-printed an article from a game in which two Elvis Andrus defensive breakdowns caused the Rangers to lose a mid-May game in Boston. In the interest of fair play, here is a re-print from a game in which the offensive star was Elvis Andrus. […]