Michael Young is on the Hall of Fame ballot. He will need to be named on 75 percent of all 400 ballots to make it to the Hall of Fame. Will he make it in? Should he make it in? He was easily one of the top five players in […]
Yesterday, texasrangers.com featured the ten biggest trades in recent Rangers history. Here is the article. Fun read.
Bleacher Report had an article on the one off-season nightmare each team should avoid. For the Texas Rangers, it’s “missing the opportunity to sell high on Jose Leclerc.” They said: “With the value of controllable late-innings relievers at an all-time high, the Rangers have an extremely valuable trade chip in […]
With the hiring of their new pitching coach, the Rangers coaching staff is now mostly set. Yesterday, Texas announced Julio Rangel will replace Doug Brocail as the team’s pitching coach. Rangel never pitched or coached in the major leagues. As a player, he spent seven seasons mostly in the Yankees […]
Once again, there were no surprises in the awards voting. Mookie Betts is the American League M.V.P. Christian Yelich is the National League M.V.P. Beats beat out the two finalists in the A.L., Mike Trout and Jose Ramirez. The votes are cast the final day of the regular season so […]
It was deGrom and Snell for Cy Youngs. A lot of debate about both, but in my opinion both were no brainers. With deGrom it was he only had ten victories. With Snell it was he had the fewest innings pitched of any starter to win the award. Neither had […]
The Cy Young awards winners will be announced today. These are always filled with controversy and second-guessing. In the American League, there are two perennial candidates in Corey Kluber and Justin Verlander, and one newcomer in Blake Snell. Cleveland’s Kluber won the award last year, and followed that up with […]
Yesterday Ronald Acuna Jr won the Rookie of the Year award in the National League. And in a PR move, Shohei Ohtani was named the American League Roookie of the Year. Nobody has won the Rookie of the Year Award twice. Next up is Manager of the Year. In the […]
It’s MBL Awards week. And the first to be announced today is the award for Rookie of the Year in each league. Here are the finalists: American League Rookie of the Year: Miguel Andujar, 3B, Yankees: To go with his 27 homers, which tied the White Sox outfielder Daniel Palka for the Major […]
MLB.com, in yet another article to fill the void between now and opening day, did a list of the player most likely to be traded by each team. For the Rangers: Texas Rangers: Joey Gallo. Shin-Soo Choo had a terrific year, but with $42 million due to him over the next […]