So far, the early results of the new pitch clock have been favorable. Players—both pitchers and hitters—seem to like it. Get the ball, throw the ball. No standing around. No wasted time. Just play ball. Games are already nearly 25 minutes shorter this spring than last. More offense, too. The […]
Two meaningless games. Two meaningless losses. Exhibition baseball is back. Although the games don’t mean anything, getting off to a good start is important to players. Maybe even more so to the team. Justin Foscue has four sprint at-bats. Three hits. Two home runs. Justin Foscue doesn’t have a place […]
The idea of the World Baseball Classic sprung out of rejection. The Olympics were getting rid of baseball. Spurned, the International Baseball Federation got together with Major League Baseball to stage their own international baseball event. Taking the ball and going home. The first WBC was 2006. The idea was […]
Exhibition games start today with a 2:05 game between guys in Texas Rangers uniforms playing guys in Kansas City Royals uniforms. Yes, it’s Laundry Day. It’s the chance for guys who will never wear a big league jersey to put one on and play in a game, take a photo […]
Texas spent the last six seasons mired in irrelevance. They’ve been so far from the playoffs, you’d need the Hubble Telescope to find them. What killed them was just two things. No offense. No pitching. So, before last season, they went out and got three huge bats to try to […]
The Rangers addressed their huge hole in left field yesterday. Halfway, at least. Texas signed Robbie Grossman to a one-year, $2 million deal. When you look at his numbers, you might scratch your head and think, “Is this guy better than what they had?” That’s a fair question. The ten-year […]
You gotta love spring training, right? Reporters descend on major league camps to— To do what? Report what? It’s just pitchers throwing to catchers. After one day of guys throwing balls to other guys, they are pleased to announce on texasrangers.com that, “Eovaldi impressing early.” Impressing doing what? Did he […]
Is it a coincidence that the day Rangers Rounding 3rd goes down, so does Jacob deGrom? Luckily, thanks to Twig, we are back up and running. Let’s hope deGrom’s setback is just as minor and he’s back in action just as quickly. For the next five years, any time deGrom […]
The equipment trucks are headed to Surprise. Filled with bats and balls and bags and hope. Pitchers and catchers are headed to Surprise. Filled with the promise of being the best rotation in Rangers history and a bullpen that is anybody’s guess, like most bullpens are from year to year. […]
Remember Ronald Guzman? The Condor. The six-foot, five-inch Dominican slugger who was the Rangers first baseman of the future. He was everything you’d want in a first baseman. Tall, with the ability to stretch out inches further than most first baseman and turn bang-bang singles into outs. Everything you’d want, […]
