All the talk for the next three weeks will center on Ohtani. Teams can submit offers starting Friday, and then they have three weeks to negotiate. And then that story will be settled and over and it’s time to move on. Ohtani is the pipe dream for now. The reality […]
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED. Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment #9 of the Rangers 2017 season. I thought it would be fun to go back and read what I posted about it at the time. Here is a repost from May 10, 2017. The only way to keep the […]
Top Ten Moment #9: A. J. Griffin throws a complete game shutout. By Tuesday, May 9, the Rangers had been left for dead. They were suffering their second horrible start in the three-year Jeff Banister era. They lost the first of a two-game series in San Diego against the […]
In processed animal foods, a filler is an ingredient added to provide dietary fiber, bulk or some other non-nutritive purpose. It is merely a cost-saving method to provide bulk but not sustenance. Doug Fister made fifteen starts for the Boston Red Sox in 2017. He was able to make […]
All sides have reached an agreement. Shohei Ohtani is cleared to come to the U.S. to play major league baseball. He is being billed as the next Babe Ruth. That once in a century two-way player who can pitch, who can hit, who can do it all. The legend […]
In the year of the home run, from MLB.com here is a fun article about home run extremes. Enjoy.
It’s Black Friday. The worst day to go within ten miles of a shopping mall. Let’s hope Jon Daniels finds some bargains. Let’s hope he goes to Pitchers R Us and picks up three quality starters. Then, he heads over to the Contact Store and finds about six hitters that […]
The big T stands for thanks. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, everyone. Be thankful, be happy, be safe, be well.
Shoeless Joe. Pete Rose. And now, John Coppolella. Rob Manfred made the biggest move of his commissionership yesterday by banning the recently-resigned GM of the Braves for life. Here is the story. Major league baseball is making a statement. Cheating doesn’t pay. Unless you are a player and you are […]
Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment # 10 of the Rangers 2017 season. Here is what I wrote about that game at the time. Reposted from April 4, 2017. YU’S WALK YEAR. The first of the last thirty starts of the Yu Darvish era with the Rangers elicited the one […]