Rougned Odor comes back today. What a difference a seven-game suspension makes. When Odor left he was the second-most beloved player in Texas Rangers history, behind only Nolan Ryan. Seven games later, he may have became the second-favorite second baseman on the team. It’s no fault of Odor’s. It’s just […]
What to do? What to do? That is the talk on blogs, sports talk radio, in the stands at the Ballpark, around the water cooler, in the papers, on bar stools, and anywhere else people are talking about the Rangers. What to do with Fielder and Moreland? Both Prince Fielder […]
There’s a lot of conjecture about what happens to Jurickson Profar once Rougned Odor comes back from suspension on Saturday. When Odor comes back they have two choices with Profar. 1) Keep him and bench him. 2) Send him back to Triple-A and play him. According to T. R. Sullivan, […]
Last season, after beating the Houston Astros (of course) 6-5 at home, the Rangers moved to ten games over .500 for the first time. It was September 15. Last night, with their 7-3 win over the Cleveland Indians, the Rangers moved to ten games over .500 for the first […]
Exactly one month ago, Derek Holland got a win. Five starts later, he gets his next. But Holland didn’t pitched as badly as it might sound during that stretch. Yes, his May did start with a thud. He had a game where he gave up eleven earned runs, followed […]
Two months down, four to go. It’s a long season, but the main narrative the first eight weeks has been the continued disappearances of Prince Fielder and Mitch Moreland. In baseball, slumps are long and memories are short. Remember last year? While this year Fielder and Moreland cannot buy a […]
The Rangers beat the Pirates 5-2 at the Ballpark last night. There was a whole lot to like about this game. And a whole lot to forget about. Adrian Beltre hit a two-run homer in the first, becoming just the fifty-fourth player in major league history to rack up 1500 […]
The Rangers got ten hits last night. Yet scored only one run. That’s because the Rangers got zero hits with runners in scoring position. They were 0-for-7 in that regard. It was a frustrating loss, 9-1 to the Pirates. They had runners on in every inning except the […]
After Drew Stubbs and Shin-Soo Choo went on the DL on the same day, and the Rangers did not call up Delino DeShields, one thing was obvious. It would seem DeShields’s days as a Ranger are numbered. And that number might be 0. If that’s the case, it is totally […]
Two of my favorite moments TV sports watching are: One, the end of nearly every Cowboys game when they cut to the owner’s suite and Jerry Jones has that look of cluelessness on his surgically stretched face, trying to figure out how in the world the team he put together […]