Remember when Jurickson Profar was something? Remember when the Rangers owned the Astros? the videos of baseball change quickly. A RETURN TO NORMALCY. One day after the Houston Astros earned a rare win over the Texas Rangers, things were back to normal in Arlington. The Rangers were back to beating […]
This is when Gallo first came up. Third baseman Adrian Beltre was injured so they called up Gallo to play third. He went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and a home run in his first game. He ended up the season hitting .205 with an OPS of .717. GALLO WATCH. Let’s […]
Hard to believe but, at one time, not that long ago, the Rangers had the best record in the American League and were the cream of the crop. TALENT ON DISPLAY. Houston Astros save-blower Ken Giles claimed that his team had more talent than the Rangers, and that it had no business […]
Texas began 2015 like they ended 2014. Mainly, a lot of bad baseball. But they slowly turned it around. THE NEW TEXAS RANGERS. It might be time to stop mentioning April. That Rangers team is gone. Both figuratively and literally. The April team was a bad team that was playing […]
After the way the season ended in 2015, it would have been natural for Elvis Andres to fall apart. Instead, he put it behind him and had a fantastic season. ELVIS STEALS HOME AGAIN. Last season, in a game against the Padres on the First of September, the Rangers were […]
Yesterday, we looked at the Rangers track record for picking first-rounders in the Jon Daniels Era. Today, his overall draft success with pitchers. It’s not pretty. DRAFT DAY. Today is Major League Baseball’s amateur draft. For many young men, it’s the day their dreams come true. For a few franchises, […]
One year ago the Rangers selected Josh Jung in the first round of the draft. The draft hasn’t been kind to the Rangers in the Jon Daniels era. RANGERS SELECT JOSH JUNG. The Rangers entered their annual blind bobbing for apples contest yesterday. They optimistically call it the Major League draft. […]
There’s nothing like a great baseball game. A CLOSE ONE. Now that was a baseball game. Both teams’ aces dealing, going deep. Bullpens coming in to do their job. Tying the game, barely, in the ninth. Winning it in the tenth. The Rangers had gone twenty innings in a row […]
Every time someone tells you baseball is dying out, refer to this article. BASEBALL IS NUMBER ONE. Bradford Doolittle, a writer for ESPN.com, a website and a network that pretty much ignore baseball, wrote an article last week that was quite surprising, for two reasons. One, ESPN, as a partner of […]
As this slogs into June, we are getting used to life with no baseball. This one is about Josh, whose life was beautiful on the field and a tragic train wreck off it. YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. Two home runs on Friday. Two inning-changing walks on Saturday. So […]
