“I thought he pitched well,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said of Doug Fister’s performance last night. “There were some ground balls that got through.” Fister pitched so well he allowed five runs in six innings and fell to 1-7 with a 4.50 ERA. And the reason he lost is because […]
Lately, the Rangers TV announcers have been making a big deal about the offense being second in the American League in walks. It’s the patient approach. They are showing incredible patience. What great strides they are making as hitters. Texas had drawn the second-most walks to the Yankees in […]
Jurickson Profar had a night. His first multi-home run game, and his career high in RBIs with five. The former number-one prospect in all of the world has been mostly a disappointment in his career. But, in his defense, he has been jacked around, moved from position to position, […]
Chirinos blasted one in the fourth. Profar in the sixth. Choo in the seventh to tie the game. Beltre in the eighth to take the lead. Gallo in the eighth as well, to put Texas up three. The Rangers hit a season-high five home runs. They got a rare […]
The Rangers first pick in the draft was a high school pitcher named Cole Winn. You have to love the name. Yesterday we looked at the pitchers chosen by the Rangers in the Jon Daniels era. Today, here is a look at the position players selected in Rangers drafts […]
Today is Major League Baseball’s amateur draft. For many young men, it’s the day their dreams come true. For a few franchises, it’s the day their fortunes turn. The Rangers are smack dab in the middle of the drafting order, getting the fifteenth pick in the first round. Here […]
Now that was a baseball game. Both teams’ aces dealing, going deep. Bullpens coming in to do their job. Tying the game, barely, in the ninth. Winning it in the tenth. The Rangers had gone twenty innings in a row without scoring. They were down 2-0. Garret Richards was […]
Bradford Doolittle, a writer for ESPN.com, a website and a network that pretty much ignore baseball, wrote an article last week that was pretty surprising, for two reasons. One, ESPN, as a partner of the NFL, usually goes out of its way to disparage baseball. Two, this article showed […]
Sabermetrics have taken over the game. Data is king. Teams are slaves to data. But only when it’s convenient. Only when it fits the narrative. For instance, here is an interesting piece of data: Adrian Beltre has played in 30 games this season. The Rangers are 9-21 in the […]
