Monthly Archives: April 2016


Getting it done. 477 comments

  Prince Fielder isn’t exactly tearing up the league. He’s hitting just .193, and rarely hitting the ball hard. But it’s now how you are hitting that matters. It’s when. And Fielder is making the most of the few hits he gets. He’s not a hit machine. But he’s an RBI […]


Things. 515 comments

THINGS I GOT RIGHT: A.J. Griffin would be the steal of the off-season. A. J. Griffin will be the number-three starter on the team. The Ian Desmond signing was really smart. No matter who the Rangers got for Leonys Martin, the Rangers got the better end of the deal. Tom […]


Elvis is alive. 129 comments

  During yesterday’s pre-game radio show, Texas manager Jeff Banister was talking about shortstop Elvis Andrus, specifically about the surprising year he is having so far offensively. What he said was, Elvis is doing well because he is batting far down in the order. He isn’t expected to contribute so […]


Ramos wasn’t bad. 760 comments

  Question: When you heard Cesar Ramos was going to pitch in place of Cole Hamels, what is the first thing you thought? (Right after, of course, Who the heck is Cesar Ramos?) That the Rangers would probably lose. That happened. So no need to dwell on it. But Ramos pitched better […]


Swept away. 557 comments

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Three weeks into the season and the Rangers have yet to gel. After winning four in a row, they lose the next three in a row. In six games this week, the Rangers recorded one sweep against the under-.500 […]


Stopped cold. 514 comments

It was forty degrees last night in Chicago. Too cold for humans and baseball. The Rangers bats froze. Worse, the Rangers brains froze. Delino DeShields led off the game with a walk. He was promptly picked off. It was going to be one of those games. It was a close, tight […]


The s-word. 548 comments

  Last year’s National League Cy Young award winner threw a no-hitter last night against Cincinnati. Last year’s American League Cy Young award winner threw a thirteen-hitter last night against Texas, allowing a three-game sweep over the cross-state rival Houston Astros 7-4. Since the Astros moved to the American League […]


Arms. 624 comments

  The Rangers were 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position last night. Fortunately the Astros were 1-for-12. Fortunately, too, the one hit the Rangers did get, from Rougned Odor, went into the second deck and scored all the runs the Rangers could get or would need. And, even more fortunately, the Astros […]