Top Ten Moment #7: Back-to-back walk offs. The Rangers came into the second game of a home series against the San Diego Padres five games under .500. They had won two in a row and were looking for some sort of momentum in the early season. Martin Perez got the […]
The long cold winter begins. From mlbtraderumors.com: Speaking of six-man rotations, the Rangers could be prime candidates to go that route in 2018 if they manage to bring back Yu Darvish, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News observes. The Rangers didn’t enter the offseason planning to spend big money on a single […]
Disappointment rears its disappointing head once again. Shohei Ohtani made his decision. And it isn’t Arlington. So now Jon Daniels can go to work on Plan B. The winter meetings start Sunday. Daniels is usually very active in those meetings. If he plans to build a wild-card worthy team, he is […]
Jon Daniels told T. R. Sullivan that the emphasis this offseason will be on pitching and not on upgrading the club’s lineup. “From a position-player standpoint,” he explained, “we are of the mindset to give all of our guys that have been here or knocking at the door a true […]
The Rangers have done it again. They have made everyone in baseball scratch their heads and wonder, What in the heck were they thinking? Yesterday on MLB Network Radio, for much of the day of programming, they were trying to figure out why in the world Jon Daniels would […]
Really? Miles Mikolas? $15.5 million for two years? Miles Bleeeping Mikolas? What the heck? Mikolas last played in the major leagues in 2014, when he started ten games for the Rangers with an ERA of 6.44. He was not good. He was banished to Japan. And now he comes back […]
A SPECIAL NIGHT OF BASEBALL. Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment # 8 of the Rangers 2017 season. Here is what I wrote about it at the time. Reposted from April 30, 2017. Rangers fans saw a lot of unique things last night. Angels second baseman Danny Espinosa taking a […]
Top Ten Moment #8: Carlos Gomez hits for the cycle. April 29. It was early in the season, and the Rangers were still trying to get a feel for what they were going to be. After an opening series sweep at the hand of the Cleveland Indians, it was […]
It’s December 3 and the hot stove league has been anything but hot. The Angels retained Justin Upton and the Rangers signed Doug Fister. Other than that, there has been very little to talk about. And even those two transactions are fairly non-significant. It seems GMs are waiting for some […]
According to reports, the Rangers did not tender offers to pitchers A. J. Griffin, Nick Martinez, and Chi Chi Gonzalez. They are now free agents. The thin pitching ranks have gotten thinner. While these were pitchers the Rangers were never going to count on anyway for much, Griffin and Martinez […]