FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Arlington, Texas—The Texas Rangers have announced that the coming out party to introduce their radically beefed up offense as the result of their trade deadline deals to acquire All-Star hitters Carlos Beltran and Jonathan Lucroy was delayed one day due to an unfortunate scheduling glitch caused by a […]
Desperately needing to replenish their starting rotation, the Rangers picked up three pieces in the trade deadline yesterday: a catcher, a DH, and a closer. Welcome to the new Rangers: Jonathan Lucroy, catcher. Lucroy, like Hamels last season, has been on the Rangers trade radar since spring training. The Rangers have […]
It’s the thick of trade season, and Rangers general manager Jon Daniels is trying to pull off a magical trade by 3:00 Central in which he gets the parts that take his team to the Promised Land. And while the trade deadline goes a long way to defining a GM’s […]
Pretty good week for Mitch Moreland. Some people are saying he is stepping up to fill the void left by Prince Fielder. But that void has needed filling since the second game of the season. So that’s not really true. What he is doing is what Mitch Moreland so […]
Rougned Odor hits the first of his two home runs to lead the Rangers to an 8-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals in a game when a Rangers starting pitcher not named Cole Hamels picked up the victory for the first time in twenty-nine games. 72 hours to […]
Since coming to the Rangers almost one year ago on July 31, Cole Hamels is 19-3. That is nothing compared to what he has done for the Rangers since the All-Star break. Texas is a disappointing 5-8 since their badly needed rest. Hamels, however, is 3-0 in three starts. […]
Everybody is talking about trades the Rangers need to make. This pitcher or that one. Or maybe a catcher. Suddenly so many holes to fill. The Rangers need to make a trade for October. For deep October. Something to get them to the promised land. It’s all about October. But the month they […]
One more game when the Rangers get down big early. One more game when the deficit was too large to overcome, try as the offense might. One more game when the Rangers had no chance even before it started. Trouble is, the fifth starter for the Rangers has been […]
It was one of those games the Rangers have been losing a lot of lately. When they get buried early by bad pitching and shoddy defense. In the Collapse of 16, we had seen far too much of that. It was happening again. Martin Perez was on the mound […]
Sam Dyson picked up his twentieth save yesterday to move into a tie for eighth place in the American League. With it came six hundred twenty-six cases of cardiac arrest, ninety-five reported incidences of heart failure, six thousand reported arrhythmias, seven hundred fifty open heart surgeries, ninety-two triple bi-passes, over […]
