Wow, what a difference an off-season makes. And a new general manager. Last year, after a 102-loss campaign, the Rangers went into the 2022 season with this rotation: Jon Gray, Dane Dunning, Spencer Howard, Taylor Hearn, and Martín Pérez. Yes, Martín Pérez was the fifth starter. Worse, Jon Gray was […]
ZIPs is an annual projection from Fan Graphs. It looks at a team’s moves and comments on its roster makeup. Here’s what they said about the Rangers offense. Batters: The Rangers undergo rebuilding with a refreshing urgency you don’t always see, though that’s hardly surprising since they’re not actually a […]
Rangers fans have had it rough the past six years. Longer if you consider this team has not advanced in a playoff series since 2011. But the franchise started giving its fans gifts before Christmas. First, they got rid of their manager. Chris Woodward was a nice guy who was […]
This one is for all the Jon Daniels fanboys out there. As this first winter with Chris Young at the helm to try to create a Rangers team with relevance, we here at RR3 stumbled upon a few interesting tidbits that explain why Chris Young is at the helm and […]
The Rangers weren’t able to convince Clayton Kershaw to leave Los Angeles to come to Arlington. So, they did the next best thing. They plucked Andrew Heaney from the Dodgers. Well, to be fair, the next best pitcher on the Dodgers was not Heaney. He was about sixth best. But, […]
Maybe the Rangers luck is turning. Maybe the dark cloud over this franchise is slowly lifting. MLB held its first draft lottery yesterday. The Rangers came out way ahead. To discourage tanking, the players and owners negotiated a draft lottery. Players were tired of teams deliberately losing so they could […]
The Rangers got their man. Two days before the start of the Winter Meetings, which haven’t been held since 2019 due to the pandemic and then the lockout, the Texas Rangers showed the baseball world, and Rangers fans, it was tired of being the eighty-pound weakling and having sand kicked […]
Experience counts. That seems to be the difference between the new Chris Young regime and the old Jon Daniels regime. Young’s first major hire since taking over for the fired Jon Daniels was a manager. Unlike Daniels who gravitated to inexperience, first-time managers with all three he hired—Ron Washington, Jeff […]
Martin Perez is coming back. He agreed to the qualifying offer the Rangers extended to him, meaning he will make $19.65 million in 2023. It’s a one-year deal, which isn’t the multi-year deal most players seek. But it’s $19.65 million. He wasn’t going to get that per year in a […]
The Rangers made the first trade of the off-season, and it was a headscratcher. But, for once, in a good way for the Rangers. Texas sent pitcher Kolby Allard to the Braves for pitcher Jake Odorizzi. Allard was the Braves number one pick in the 2015 draft. He pitched one […]
