Whoever is in charge of Tampa Bay’s pitching development department, the Rangers need to hire right away. The Rays seem to manufacture quality starters like they were coming off an assembly line, whereas the Rangers are like the mad scientist flailing away in the basement trying to develop a formula […]
Lance Lynn is leading the American League in wins. With ten. He is tied with Justin Verlander. Repeat, Lance Lynn is tied with Justin Verlander in a positive pitching category. Four pitchers in the AL, in fact, have ten wins. Three of them have ERAs under 3. Lynn’s is 4.00. That […]
Last year after 81 games, the Rangers were 35-46. They finished the season 67-95. They finished last. In 2017 after 81 games, the Rangers were 40-41. They finished the season 78-84. They tied for third. In 2016, the year the Rangers won the West and had the best record in […]
The last time team was eight games over .500 was in 2016 when they won the American League West. Since losing five in a row and dropping to five games under in mid-May, the Rangers are 27-14. In the thirteen series they’ve played since, the Rangers have won (including the […]
Nobody would have ever seen this coming. Jesse Chavez? A starter? A dominating starter? A dude? This is why baseball. You can’t predict this. Of all the improbably things that have happened to the Rangers so far this season—last inning comebacks, the emergence of Joey Gallo, the comeback of Hunter […]
Three years ago, in an attempt to revolutionize the prevention of Tommy John surgeries, the Texas Rangers pioneered what they called the “de-load program.” De-load is now de-funct. It was de-sasterous. The ordeal is chronicled by Rangers reporter Levi Weaver in his wonderful article for The Athletic. The idea behind de-loading […]
Texas went through a twenty-one-games-in-twenty-days slog and came out with a winning record. Without Joey Gallo for any of it. And without Hunter Pence for some of it. That is cause for optimism. When this stretch started on June 4, the Rangers were ten game behind Houston in the West […]
As the Rangers look to the future, there is a good chance they will need to look at replacing their entire infield next season. Elvis Andrus can opt out. There is no way to know where his head is. Yes, he could have opted out last year. But he had […]
The debate rages as to whether the Rangers should push in the chips and go for it this year, or sell assets and build for the future. That was the discussion on MLB Network Radio yesterday. Not just about the Rangers but about the teams in the playoff picture. […]
The Rangers have had three starts so far this season from two pitchers they were desperately hoping to not have to use. One from Taylor Hearn. Two from Joe Palumbo. Combined they have pitched 6.1 innings, giving up 15 hits, seven walks and 16 earned runs. That’s a 22.86 […]
