Game 100 of the season showed that the next sixty-two games are going to be difficult on the Rangers bullpen. This strategy of only letting starters go six innings, maximum, has consequences. You turn one-third of the game over to a steady parade of arms that aren’t good enough to […]
There are so many words to describe this turnaround story Martin Perez has authored. Remarkable, unbelievable, improbable, fantastic, fictional. Here’s a guy who proved the old baseball adage, if you’re lefthanded, you can always find a job. That was his only asset. He certainly wasn’t what anyone would call a […]
It’s been said before and it bears repeating again. Baseball makes no sense. One of the worst starters in Texas Rangers history (and that’s saying something) goes up against one of the biggest stories in baseball history, a guy who’s actually having a better pitching season this year than his […]
Rangers fans know all too well the emotional cost of being Rangers fans. But The Hustle.com, an on-line newsletter that covers a wide variety of topics, put out its annual list of the most expensive teams to take a family of four to see in person. This is based on […]
Bunting works. All those extra inning losses when it seems the outcome would have been different if only the Rangers would have bunted were explained away that bunting isn’t really a successful strategy. Giving away an out with a runner in scoring position isn’t smart. Let your hitters hit away. […]
The Rangers did the Math. And Math doesn’t lie. With two-fifths of a major-league-caliber rotation, and about forty percent of the season left, they simply don’t have enough pitching to cover the rest of the year. So, Texas signed Dallas Keuchel to a minor league contract. It wasn’t for the […]
Never throw water on a grease fire. And never bring in the Rangers bullpen unless you have a ten-run lead or more. Texas took a 10-0 lead, then an 11-1 lead, then hung on for dear life to an 11-8 victory over Oakland, who scored four runs in the eighth […]
Second and third, one out in the first. No runs scored. Second and third, one out in the sixth. Walk. Now bases loaded. No runs scored. The Rangers simply lack the ability to take advantage of opportunities. No small ball. No manufacturing runs. No execution skills whatsoever. Remember when the talk […]
“The Rangers make it interesting but come up short.” That’s how the Rangers announcer called the final out in the top of the ninth after Texas had scored two runs to pull within 5-4, with the bases loaded. Interesting. Come up short. That could be an apt description of the […]
July has not been kind to the Rangers. The schedule makers are about to make up for it. The second half of the season started with a one-game stopover in Miami. Miami was shut out twice in a row before coming into Thursday’s game. The game before that, they lost […]
