Something weird happened in baseball last night. It must have been a full moon or something. The Milwaukee Brewers scored 19 runs. The Atlanta Braves scored 29. And the Texas Rangers scored seven. Offense was breaking out all over. The Rangers hadn’t won back-to-back games since August 14 and 15. They […]
Maybe Elvis Andrus isn’t ready to ride into the sunset after all. He will go out fighting, at least. Since the talk of him losing his job surfaced, and his playing time diminished, he found the power button and has found a way to make an impact in a few […]
2020, what a year. The first twenty games of the 2020 season, the Rangers went 10-10. The second twenty, they went 3-17. So, with the first two twenty-game segments completed in 2020, here’s a perfect opportunity to play twenty questions, in no particular order. 1. As they did in 1972 […]
A rally. Is that too much to ask. A lousy rally. Apparently, it is too much to ask season, especially that last ten games. In the past ten games, the Rangers have scored 32 runs. Simple math tells you that’s 3.2 runs per game. That’s down slightly from the 3.5 […]
Rougned Odor is off the injured list. So is Elvis Andrus. They now reside on the sit-on-the-bench list. It seems the Rangers are finally committed to moving on, or at least seeing what’s out there behind the struggling middle infield duo. It’s about time. And you can’t say they weren’t […]
That’s two encouraging starts in a row from two young pictures. Kyle Cody on Friday and Kolby Allard on Thursday. And even though they both resulted in losses, that’s not important at this point. What is important is finding out who can play major league baseball, and who can’t. You […]
There are a lot of major leaguers who are vastly overpaid. The industry is filled with .183-hitting shortstops making $15 million per year. But nobody is more overpaid than Luis Ortiz and Callix Crabbe. They are the Ranger hitting coaches. Texas is 30th of 30 teams in batting average and […]
Back in 1978, I was in college. In June, I had just completed by my sophomore year. Everyone who knew me knew I was a huge Cincinnati Reds fan. Living on my dorm floor my first two seasons were twins David and Mark Block who just so happened to graduate […]
The Rangers won yesterday. It’s so rare they don’t even know how to handle it. Here is the score from texasrangers.com. Apparently, the Rangers are unaware of the concept of the team with the big T logo having more runs than the team they are playing. Either that or, in […]
The trade deadline passed and the Rangers, a team in desperate need of rebuilding, weren’t able to do much in the way of home improvement. They needed a new roof, a new kitchen, and a major update of the master bedroom. They painted the garage door. Mike Minor, who wasn’t […]
