No industry honors itself more than Hollywood. Baseball is threatening to be a close second. After announcing the Gold Glove Award winners on Tuesday, now they announce their Defensive Player of the Year awards. Okay. They named a players at each position. They named an overall best defensive player (Minnesota’s […]
The 2017 Silver Slugger awards were announced. These are voted as the best offensive player at each position in each league. As with the Gold Glove awards, there were no Rangers. AMERICAN LEAGUE C: Gary Sanchez, Yankees 1B: Eric Hosmer, Royals 2B: Jose Altuve, Astros 3B: Jose Ramirez, Indians SS: Francisco Lindor, Indians OF: Justin Upton, […]
At the end of the season, the Rangers-own CJ Nitkowski tweeted this comparison of where this year’s totals for different statistics stacked up in the 144-year history of MLB. Home Runs: 1 Strikeouts: 1 ERA: 122 Complete Games: 144 (fewest ever) Reliever’s Innings Pitched: 1 Batting Average: 98 (tied) Slugging […]
The Gold Glove winners for 2017 have been announced. There were no Rangers. American League: C: Martin Maldonado, Angels, 1st 1B: Eric Hosmer, Royals, 4th 2B: Brian Dozier, Twins, 1st 3B: Evan Longoria, Rays, 3rd SS: Andrelton Simmons, Angels, 3rd LF: Alex Gordon, Royals, 5th CF: Byron Buxton, Twins, 1st […]
Free agency began at 4:00 Central yesterday. The Rangers did not make qualifying offers to Andrew Cashner or to Carlos Gomez, officially making them free agents. Any player receiving the qualifying offer of $17.4 million has five days to decide whether he wants to accept it. Around MLB, these nine […]
Is getting to the playoffs enough? There seems to be a sentiment that if you just get in, just win that wild card, anything can happen. True. As Rangers fans know all too well, anything can, indeed, happen. You can lose in the wild card game. You can lose in […]
Adrian Beltre said he did not want to go through a rebuild. So, it was really encouraging to read that when he and Jon Daniels met right after the season ended, Daniels convinced him they would be competitive next year. With that in mind, from MLB.com, here are the top […]
The Rangers 2018 rotation is beginning to take shape. As the off-season starts to unfold and teams begin the long process of getting rosters ready for 2018, clubs are already starting to decline options on players. It’s already starting to become apparent who the Rangers are going to target to […]
I want to thank everyone for coming to RR3 this season, and for coming back as often as you do. Without everyone here, I would be just talking to myself. And I have long ago chosen to ignore that crazy voice. You may not have agreed with me on occasion, […]
Wasted opportunity again. This time for Los Angeles. Two on, one out in the first. No runs. Two on, one out in the second. No runs. Two on, no outs in the third. No runs. Two on, one out in the fifth. No runs. Two on, no outs in the […]