Silence. 95 comments
Nothing. Pitchers and catchers report in three days.
Yearly Archives: 2016
Head games. 42 comments
Perhaps we finally found the one way to get Derek Holland to pitch like he is capable. Perhaps the solution to curing what’s in his head is with what goes around his head. At the end of 2013, and again at the end of 2015, Holland had a line drive […]
Playing for something. 73 comments
Here is an article from T. R. Sullivan about prospects who are looking forward to spring training.
Ripkenesque. 149 comments
I wrote this a year ago. Fielder went on to win the Comeback Player of the Year award. *** RIPKENESQUE. February 12, 2015 157, 158, 159, 162, 161, 162, 162, 162, 42. Until last season, Prince Fielder rarely missed a game. From the time he became a regular first baseman for […]
Last piece of the puzzle. 150 comments
With the signing of Mitch Moreland the last significant piece of the roster has been nailed down, and now begins the job of getting the team to opening day Not a single starting job is up for grabs. Left field is Hamilton’s. He is leasing it as long as his knees can […]
How arbitration hearings work. 132 comments
IN ARBITRATION COURT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016. ON ONE SIDE OF THE ROOM IS TEXAS RANGERS FIRST BASEMAN, MITCH MORELAND, WITH HIS AGENT, BOB GARBER. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM IS TEXAS RANGERS GENERAL MANAGER JON DANIELS. PRESIDING OVER THE PROCEEDINGS IS IMPARTIAL ARBITER JAMES PHILLIPS. JUDGE PHILLIPS […]
The toast. 135 comments
For anyone who didn’t see it, or who saw it and said, What the heck was that? here is the Rangers commercial that ran during the Super Bowl. It’s Jeff Banister toasting his team with Champagne, interspersed with shots of Beltre, Odor, Hamels (twice) and Fielder, saying: “I told you in […]
Time for baseball. 289 comments
The football season has mercifully come to an end and this is the time when we reset to 000 and start the journey toward baseball, and the Rangers defending their American League West crown. Below is something I posted the day I took over this site and from time to […]
DeShields’s first HR. 231 comments
This is the time of the year when the clock seems to slow down and the days are twice as long in anticipation. While we wait, here is reminder of the greatness of the game. Here is a recap of the game in which Delino DeShields hit his first major league home […]
Delino. 95 comments
Rookie week continues. Here is the one game that singlehandly turned the season around. When Delino DeShields established himself as a viable alternative to Leonys Martin. *** OF COURSE THAT HAPPENED. This is why baseball is the greatest sport in the world. Football, this wouldn’t happen. The Indianas of the […]