According to MLBTradeRumors.com, the Rangers have heated up trade talks with the White Sox over twenty-eight-year-old righthanded pitcher Dylan Cease. He’s coming off a down 2023 after a very strong 2022 in which he posted a 2.20 ERA with 227 strikeouts in 184 innings, and a remarkable 180 ERA+, meaning […]
In the “Who Didn’t See This Coming” category, it appears Josh Jung will be out much longer than originally announced He injured his calf the first day of spring training and the Rangers announced he’d miss two to three weeks. Bruce Bochy announced yesterday that Jung isn’t ready to run […]
The last time Adolis Garcia was in a baseball game was October 30. It was Game 3 of the World Series. He had just signed the papers to own the Houston Astros, having hit five home runs in seven games, driving in fifteen. He had just hit the game-winning home […]
The sports website The Athletic had an interesting, eye-opening article about the Rangers yesterday. More pointedly, about the Rangers incredible revolving door in left field. Ten years ago, after the 2013 season, Rangers left fielder David Murphy left Texas for Cleveland. In the process, he left a gaping hole in left field […]
Elvis Andrus signed a minor league deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday. Which brought up the thought: Where have other former Rangers gone? The crop that led to six straight losing seasons, and a decade of futility, are all still holding on to the dream in one form or another. […]
When the Yankees were dominating baseball back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, it was because of their “Core Cour.” Four players that they drafted and developed at around the same time, came up through the system, and contributed to four World Series championships in a five-year period. Derek […]
Even though spring stats are irrelevant, they do keep track of them, and it’s fun to see what people are doing. Like watching reality TV. You know it’s not real. But it’s on. The Rangers have played seven spring games, won five, lost one, tied one. There are some notable individual […]
It doesn’t mean a lot, but the Rangers handed the Dodgers their first defeat of the season. After signing nearly every coveted free agent and spending about a billion dollars this offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers set out to make a statement. They ant to win the World Series. They […]
It’s one thing for the hitting coach to sing Wyatt Langford’s praises. Or his manager. But when the pitching coach walks back into the clubhouse after seeing him hit and declares, “I just saw the best player on the field,” and a whole bunch of All-Stars were on that same […]
What happened to Jared Walsh? He finished seventh in Rookie of the Year voting in 2020 while with the Angels. His numbers were pretty impressive, too. He batted .293, had an elite .971 OPS, and an OPS+ of 157. To put that into perspective, only Corey Seager and Evan Carter […]
