Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in RR3 Nation. Let’s hope we can continue being thankful that Chris Young and the GM nobody’s ever heard of named Ross Fenstermaker bring more badly needed offense to this team. And a closer. Unlike at the trade deadline when the Rangers desperately needed a bat […]
This might not make the Rangers cheaper, but it does make the offense better. The Rangers have acquired outfielder Brandon Nimmo from the Mets. All it cost them was Marcus Semien. Taking money out of the equation, it seems the Rangers pulled a fast one on the Mets. Semien is […]
The General Managers meetings in Las Vegas have concluded with no trades, not by the Rangers or any team. It’s still early in the offseason process. It’s always interesting to see who the first free agent domino is to fall. That gets the ball rolling. Some people love the hot […]
The General Managers Meetings start today in Las Vegas, an ironic choice of cities considering the gambling scandal going on in baseball now. Rangers President of Baseball Operations Chris Young and their General Manager nobody has ever heard of Russ Fenstermaker will have the unenviable task of trying to fill […]
Game 6 is tonight, and if you are a Dodgers fan, you have the right guy on the mound going for you, as you desperately need to win the final two games in Toronto. Yoshinobu Yamamoto has thrown two consecutive complete games. One in the playoffs, one in the World […]
Old school baseball is back. When you don’t have a great bullpen, just get a starter who can go all nine innings. Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw his second straight complete game in the postseason, beating the Blue Jays 5-1, and evending the World Series at a game apiece. This used to […]
Any fan of baseball has to appreciate the way the Blue Jays play the game. It’s all about making contact. Eliminating the strikeout. Putting the ball in play and seeing what happens. It’s the opposite of the Rangers approach the past two seasons. And it helped them overcome a juggernaut […]
You have to hand to Detroit. After authoring the biggest collapse in major league history, blowing a fifteen-and-a-half-game lead over Cleveland in the A.L. Central, they faced those same Guardians, and knocked them out of the playoffs. Their offense finally got mad, finally showed their embarrassment and humiliation, and finally […]
For the eighth time in the last nine years, the playoffs have started without the Rangers. The idea that they are building a winning tradition of baseball here is a myth. Either they are incompetent. Or they are lying. Jon Daniels had early success as the Rangers general manager, then […]
You knew it wouldn’t last. You knew it was too good to last. The Rangers offense and never-say-die spirit from Monday didn’t carry over Tuesday. It couldn’t carry over Tuesday because those random acts of offense are just that, random. Fact is, .220 hitters are .220 hitters for a reason, […]
