Opening day 2015. The Rangers are playing in Oakland. Sonny Gray is on the mound for the Athletics. Yovani Gallardo for the Rangers. Yes, Yovani Gallardo. This is one year after Tanner Scheppers pitched the season opener. Scheppers. Then Gallardo. Loss. Then loss. Shocker, huh? Last opening day the Rangers […]
What a difference a year makes. This time last year, the Rangers were sneaking into the backdoor of the season, hoping nobody had noticed what happened to them the previous year. ESPN The Magazine noticed. They picked the Rangers to finish in fourth place in the West, winning one more […]
Another spring training is behind us and this spring taught us all one thing: that spring training didn’t teach us a thing. There was very little competition for open jobs. About the only surprise was how well Ryan Rua hit. But, if you looked at what he did when he […]
Just another practice game. This one really even can’t be called an exhibition game because there wasn’t much on exhibit, other than a steady stream of nine Rangers pitchers who were all scheduled to throw anyway, regardless of the outcome. Ryan Cordell was the sum total of the offense, hitting a […]
The results are in and SportsDayDFW.com has them. According to SportsDay, the Texas Rangers will have a payroll of $149,338,533, good for eighth highest in MLB. Of course, that could move up a tick if the Rangers pull off the expected trade with Cleveland—who just happens to be in town the next two […]
Six days ago, Cole Hamels had a bad start and the entire rotation was collapsing around us. It was chaos. Yesterday, Cole Hamels had a good start and the Rangers are heading to the World Series. It’s everything I love and everything I hate about spring training in one. Fortunately, now Arizona is […]
A week ago, Jon Daniels said he was prepared to go into the season with the catchers he had. Which meant one thing was certain: he was not going to go into the season with the catchers he had. Unwilling to pay the price for a front-end catcher like Jonathan […]
Now that the spring has progressed until most of the no-names have been sent back to minor league camp or released, and we now have the all-clear that Jeremy Guthrie won’t be the fifth starter for Texas, it’s time for our annual prediction of how each team will finish. Here […]
One more week. Four practice games left in Arizona. Two in Arlington. Then a day off. Then the race begins. At least spring training has been fun this year. The Rangers bats came out like bats out of hell to begin the spring—but bats are usually ahead of arms at that […]
Happy Easter to everyone in RR3 nation. There’s been a lot of talk in the paper and on sports talk radio about how bad the ERAs have been of the Rangers pitchers this spring, particularly the starters. Yesterday’s game did nothing to quell that talk. Both Martin Perez and Nick Martinez […]