AdrianSampson throws a complete game. On Adrian Beltre night. You can’t make this stuff up. All of a sudden, the Rangers have pitching. A team that was either dead last or next-to-last in most pitching categories at the beginning of the year has now slowly made its way to […]
So now you have to ask, was last night’s loss the result of the weirdest quirk ever, where the Rangers cannot win the opening game of a series, and you simply chalk it up to that? Or, was last night’s loss the result of not playing a pushover, and the […]
The remedial part of the schedule is over for a while. Now the Rangers play a team that is in the upper half of the loser’s bracket with them. Oakland won 97 games last season. They had a recent run where they won ten in a row. While they aren’t […]
Maybe there is something to being sent down. Maybe that is a way to rehabilitate a struggling career. Maybe it can give a player a kickstart. Maybe it’s not just banishment. Maybe it’s not forever. Maybe being sent down isn’t the same thing as being sentanced. And maybe Delino DeShields […]
You can look at last night’s game two ways. One, this was almost the most amazing comeback ever. Two, Drew Smyly should never get another major league start. They are connected. The worst team in baseball this year and last year, and next year and probably the next five years, came […]
The Rangers entered their annual blind bobbing for apples contest yesterday. They optimistically call it the Major League draft. They haven’t been all that successful at it. If you fielded a team consisting solely of the Rangers first-round draft picks in the Jon Daniels era, it would look like this: Pitchers: […]
Games are often won or lost in one inning. Seasons might be as well. The fifth inning the defining inning of not only yesterday’s game, but also the Rangers re-vamped rotation. And maybe even the season. Just like that, the Rangers rotation has been transformed. They jettisoned Shelby Miller to […]
Joey Gallo felt something in his side when he was in centerfield. Then, he felt it again on a check swing. He was immediately taken out of the game. It’s not good when you’re removed mid-game. It’s really not good when you’re removed mid-at-bat. Gallo has a strained oblique muscle. […]
The kid gloves are off. No more mollycoddling Rougned Odor. He needs to step up or sit down. While those are the sentiments of ninety-nine percent of all Rangers fans, it hasn’t been echoed by Rangers management. In 2017, during a miserable season when he hit .204, they insisted on […]
