The Rangers split their opening series of the season against Oakland, winning the fourth game 10-1. BATS BURY GRAVEMAN. Sometimes you’re the windshield. Sometimes you’re the bug. That’s how the Rangers season has gone so far after four games, and how it will probably go all season long. They either […]
This one is self explanatory. THE FUTURE IS ALWAYS BRIGHT. “Other teams might kick themselves for trading away their top pitching prospects only to see them succeed, to varying degrees, elsewhere. Yet the Rangers have one of the deepest pitching systems in the game. In fact, of their top 10 […]
The Rangers beat Toronto 5-1 to move to 4-6 on the young season. Mike Minor was brilliant. MINOR DOMINATION. Mike Minor earned two Ws last night. One for dominating the Toronto Blue Jays, giving up just two hits and one run in a Jeff-Banister-complete-game six innings of work. He walked […]
The Rangers came off an opening day 8-0 loss to the Athletics in Oakland. You can see the box score here. ONE SHADE OF GRAY. Domination. It’s just the first game. It’s not the way you want to christen a season. But when you face a starter like Sonny Gray, […]
During a baseball season, this is an easy blog to maintain. Just watch what is happening and comment on it. During the off-season, not so easy. But at least there was always a light at the end of the tunnel. Now, there is no light. Only an endless tunnel. And, […]
Don’t expect to see baseball as usual for a long time. Assuming no fans are allowed in, it will take roughly or seventy people to actually stage a baseball game. You’d have, with sure to be expanded rosters, twenty-eight players per team. Four umpires. A manager and coaching staff for […]
Shin-Soo Choo. If you weren’t a fan of his before, you pretty much have to be one now. Here is a man who remembers where he came from and is willing to give back. Yesterday, Choo donated one thousand dollars to every one of the one-hundred-ninety-one minor leaguers in the […]
Chalk up Rangers pitcher James Jones with one of the more unusual off-field injuries. While stories like this are humorous, the time lost and the damage to a career are not funny at all. Jones came to the Rangers from the Mariners after the 2015 season along with Tom Wilhelmsen, […]
Yes, this is a day late. But who is keep track of days and dates anymore? Thirty-five April Firsts ago, Sports Illustrated ran a story about a Mets phenom named Sidd Finch. It caused quite a stir. Here is the story. Enjoy.
Maybe there is one positive to playing a shortened season. Anything can happen. One-hundred-sixty-two games has a way of revealing what a team really is. If they don’t have enough pitching, it catches up to them. You can hide not enough offense for a while. But not for 162. There […]