Maybe fifty Americans have even heard of it. Half of them care about it. Half of those have ever seen a single game. That’s why the upcoming fourth World Baseball Classic will, by all accounts, be the last World Baseball Classic. Nobody in America cares about it. Least of all, […]
The commissioner’s office sent a memo to all thirty teams telling them that if there is no collective bargaining agreement in place by end of day December 1, not to make any roster moves and not to show up for the winter meetings starting December 4. Just when you thought […]
Not much is happening in Rangersland, and probably won’t for a week. The winter meetings start next Sunday, December 4, and the Collective Bargaining Agreement expires Thursday, December 1. Most GMs will probably wait to see if there will be a labor deal in place, and what the landscape will […]
There’s an old Bruce Springsteen song that pretty much sums up the state of the Rangers rotation choices so far this off-season after Hamels and Darvish. It’s called “57 Channels And Nothin’ On.” It a commentary about how we have more programming choices than ever before, yet nothing worth watching. It’s […]
You may have never heard of Shohei Ohtani. What’s remarkable about him isn’t that he was just named as the Japanese league’s best pitcher, but he was also chosen as the league’s best DH as well. Remember when Madison Bumgarner asked—and was politely turned down—his team if he could compete […]
Well, it was bound to happen. On the heels of a great World Series—where the ratings were through the roof, where people were talking about baseball again, loving baseball again, actually tuning in to watch baseball again—comes the stupidest word that could possibly be uttered by anyone associated with major […]
Once again, I want to express to everyone here how thankful I am that you are here. I’m grateful you come to RR3 and make this a smart, troll-free place to talk about life, the universe and everything else associated with baseball and the Texas Rangers. This site would be nothing […]
According to T. R. Sullivan at MLB.com, three big names are on Jon Daniels’s radar. Chris Sale, Andrew McCutchen, and Edwin Encarnacion. Sale would fill the gaping hole in the rotation. McCutchen would solve centerfield for the foreseeable future. Encarnacion would add the power that Prince Fielder was expected to […]
The Rangers made it official. They have signed pitcher Andrew Cashner to a one-year ten-million-dollar contract. MLB.com’s T. R. Sullivan reported it yesterday. Here is his article. One thing I got from reading this was how little joy there is in Jon Daniels’s face at the press conference announcing […]
There was some talk on MLB Network Radio yesterday about who would end up at first base/DH for the Rangers. The general consensus was Mark Trumbo. But one under-the-radar name is probably now on Jon Daniels’s radar. His team released him a couple of days ago. In 2015 he hit 22 […]