Light a candle, everyone. Call your congressman. While 800,000 federal workers are not being paid during the shutdown, the true national tragedy is being swept under the rug. For the first time since 2010, MLB payroll dropped in 2018. It fell $18 million. Only $4.23 billion went to players in […]
The Rangers went shopping at the Goodwill store again. This time they picked up twos pitcher and an outfielder. Pitchers Shelby Miller and Jeanmar Gomez signed deals with Texas. Miller’s is a major league deal and he is expected to go into the Rangers rotation. Gomez’s is a minor league […]
It’s not much Rangers news but its about all there is. The Rangers have hired Eric Gagne as their bullpen coach in Triple-A Nashville. Gagne was a former dominating closer for the Dodgers. So dominating, in fact, he won he Cy Young in 2003 as as a reliever. He finished […]
We have talked about who is available to play third this season for the Rangers. T.R. Sullivan must have heard us. He wrote about it yesterday: Miguel Andujar: He hit .297 with 47 doubles, 27 home runs and 92 RBIs for the Yankees last season, finishing second in voting for […]
Gerry Fraley from the Dallas Morning News answered readers’ questions about the Rangers yesterday. Here are some of the more interesting points made. When asked about the Rangers approach of stockpiling pitchers, as opposed to what the Cubs and Astros did of stockpiling offense and then buying pitchers, Fraley response […]
“Going into the new ballpark, you want to put the best product you can going into a new stadium like that. I think that you are starting to see him build now for then. But you look at what the As did last year, and with the offense that Texas […]
More depth for the pile. The Rangers picked up three more pitchers in this front office’s thirteen-year quest to develop just one good one. They claimed Luke Farrell off waivers from Los Anaheim. Farrell is best known for being the son of former Boston and Toronto manager John Farrell. He’s […]
With nothing to talk about and no baseball for another five weeks or more, once again mlb.com has a list. This list is the fastest prospect in each organization’s system. Random, to be sure. But it’s early January. Much better than the list of teams in each division that have […]
Comedian Bob Einstein died yesterday. You may remember him as his alter-ego Super Dave Osborne, a character he created in the ’80s that was inspired by Evel Knievel. But the opposite. Every stunt Super Dave tried ended up in catastrophe and pain. Einstein got his start as a writer […]
With so many games against division rivals to kick off the season, it’s pretty imperative that Texas gets off to a quick start. So, how have the Rangers done lately in that regard? Not so good. The past five years, the Rangers are twelve games under .500 in April (adding […]
