There’s a week left in spring training. This is the point where it gets monotonous. You see the finish line. You see opening day staring at you. You just want to get the season started. But spring training still matter for some people. Look at the Rangers games last night. […]
Leody Taveras continues to struggle in spring. Evan Carter continues to show he cannot hit lefties in spring. He’s not tearing it up against righties either. Alejandro Osuna continues to hit the ball hard every at-bat he gets in spring. He had one at-bat in yesterday’s 3-2 loss to Seattle […]
Desperation, thy name is Patrick Corbin. After losing Jon Gray to a wrist fracture and Cody Bradford to a sore forearm, and with Tyler Mahle and Jacob deGrom just one pitch away from their seasons ending, the Rangers needed an innings eater. They went with Patrick Corbin, of all people. […]
For two teams, the season started today. Los Angeles and Chicago—the relevant franchises from each market, the Dodgers and Cubs—play this morning and tomorrow morning in the Tokyo Series in Japan. Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki play for the Dodgers. The Cubs have Seiya Suzuki and Shota Imanaga. […]
The long, sad saga of Joey Gallo reaches an interesting twist. Unable to catch on with the White Sox—the most miserable team in the history of Major League Baseball—Gallo has decided he is going to give it a shot as a pitcher. Makes sense. He hits like a pitcher. And […]
Just when it was looking a little bad, it got worse. Jon Gray is going to be out for a couple months with a broken wrist after taking a 108-mile-per-hour line drive off his hand. With Cody Bradford out for six weeks, and Tyler Mahle experiencing forearm stiffness, that’s three […]
With Tyler Mahle and Cody Bradford experiencing arm issues, the spotlight turns to Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter. Trouble is, they are having issues of their own. With Mahle and Bradford it’s a forearm and an elbow. With Rocker and Leiter, it’s runs, runs, runs. Rocker has been about as […]
Spring training isn’t just a long, never-ending slog for players, it’s that for sportswriters, as well. There are only so many times they can talk about how a player is in the best shape of his life, or how hitting .150 at this point is not cause for concern because […]
You can never have enough pitching. Even when you have enough pitching. One day after Tyler Mahle was scratched from his scheduled spring start due to forearm stiffness, Cody Bradford was scratched with elbow soreness. Fortunately, his MRI came back clean. Maybe he will be lost for only one season. […]
The latest PECOTA rankings are out. After the Yankees lost their ace Gerrit Cole to season-ending surgery, the Rangers are now projected to win the most games in the American League at 90.5 victories. Yesterday’s announcement that Tyler Mahle was scratched from his Cactus League start isn’t expected to alter […]
