Every aspect of this team’s weakness was on display during this four-game fiasco against San Diego. No offense. Sloppy defense. Bad bullpen. Thin rotation. Weak manager. This team is getting worse by the season. And there isn’t a whole lot of talent in the pipeline to save the day. The […]
Buried at the end of the story about Mike Minor’s struggles in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News was an item that was worthy of an eyebrow raise. Rangers hitting coach Luis Ortiz was talking to Evan Grant about the struggles of Rougned Odor and Elvis Andrus. Ortiz said that their being […]
Mike Minor struggled again yesterday, dropping to 0-4 with a bloated 6.94 ERA. He now leads baseball in losses, and is second to the bottom in ERA among qualifying pitchers. It took a while but Mike Minor is, unfortunately, official pitching like a Texas Ranger. After three particularly brutal starts […]
San Diego led 10-3. They had bases loaded in the top of the eighth. Fernando Tatis was up. The count was 3-0. Then he did something that changed the course of humanity forever. Or, you would have thought so the way the Rangers reacted. More aptly, the way they over-reacted. […]
You can’t assume a double play. But you can expect that one to have been made in the bottom of the second inning yesterday. Because of a horrible throw from Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor, on the relay, the batter was safe at first on what should have been an […]
The Rangers don’t hit a lot of home runs. They have hit just fourteen home runs in 2020. Mike Trout has nine. In fact, no team has hit fewer home runs than the Texas Rangers (with the exception of the Cardinals who took off a week and a half and, […]
Give Lance Lynn two Ws for his complete game last night. One W for beating the Colorado Rockies dominating offense. One W for beating the Texas Rangers sloppy defense. Actually, give him a third W for beating convention. After striking out all three batters in the eighth inning, Lance Lynn […]
For any Rangers fan who thought Derek Dietrich’s spark plug of a debut at second base for the Rangers on Wednesday night meant that he was now the second baseman for the Rangers every night, sorry. Rangers manager Chris Woodward made it clear yesterday that Rougned Odor is still the […]
The Derek Dietrich era has begun. So who is this guy? Dietrich plays first, second, and third. He has also logged in time in left and, for one game in his seven-year career, in right. Most of his games, though, have been at second. Which is weird because the Rangers […]
Bullpens are fickle. It’s hard enough to find a rotation that’s effective. A team is lucky if it has three quality starters, let alone five. Then there’s the bullpen. What are reliever but failed starters. So, if a team cannot find enough talent to stretch across a rotation, how are […]
