The Rangers bullpen is like that arcade game Whac-A-Mole. You never know where the trouble is going to pop up. All you can do is try to hit it over the head before it does. Or sit back and watch the opposing batters hit balls over everyone’s heads. One […]
First it was Leonys Martin. Now Justin Smoak. This is shaping up to be the season when horrible ex-Rangers come back to haunt the team. Thank goodness Scheppers is still a Ranger (never thought those words would ever be uttered in human history). Smoak was homerless until last night’s […]
Eric Nadel called it “boneheaded.” Luckily, baseball is a team game and Delino DeShields’s teammates overcame another one of his questionable base running decisions—the second time this season DeShields’s bad baserunning has erased a run. In the end, though, it was the outfielder in right who turned the game around. […]
The Rangers have yet to win a game in May. But it’s not time to panic just yet. Simply play better defense in center field. While the Rangers defense overall has been superb this year, with a current streak of eight straight games without an error, it was a ball […]
The first month of the season is over, and the Rangers are playing their best baseball. Of course, it helps that they are playing the hapless Angels and not a team full of hap like the White Sox, but that’s how a season goes. The key to the last […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
It was bound to happen. The offense was bound to explode. And it couldn’t have happened against a better team. Any time the Rangers win, it’s sweet. When they win against the Yankees, it’s like nectar of the gods. The scoring started, as it almost always does, with Nomar […]
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 […]