This World Series has been the opposite of home sweet home. After five games the road team has won every time. If that holds up, it would be good news for Washington as the Series shifts back to Houston. The Nationals have Stephen Strasburg on the mound tomorrow against Justin […]
Other than opening day, today is the best baseball day of the season. Four playoff games in one day. For baseball fans, it’s like Christmas in October. Maybe one day one of those playoff teams could be the Texas Rangers. In the Jon Daniels regime, this is now the second […]
Beware of September results. On the surface, it looked like Oakland was running out a dominating starter last night against Tampa Bay. Sean Manaea came into last night’s wild card game with a sparkling 4-0 record and an ERA of 1.21, having made just five last-season starts after missing the […]
From the moment you come out of your mother’s womb you instinctively learn two things. One, how to breathe. Two, good pitching beats good hitting. It’s been that way since the beginning of time. It’s that way now. Good pitching beats good hitting. On Monday good pitching shut out the […]
Edinson Volquez re-emerged from oblivion the other day. He pitched a scoreless inning in a meaningless loss to Seattle at home. The inning he pitched was anything but meaningless. September is will mean the world to him. Volquez was part of the Tommy John Trio that included fellow surgery patients […]
The Rangers named their opening day start. To nobody’s surprise, it’s Mike Minor. He is the only of the five in the rotation who isn’t new to the Rangers this season. And he is the only one to have had a winning record last season. Minor was 12-8 with Texas, […]
Nothing to report in Rangersland except for what is on MLBtraderumors.com: “The Rangers have continued to discuss a couple of free-agent infielders—Josh Harrison and Yangervis Solarte—and stayed in contact with free-agent right-hander Adam Ottavino, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports. “Either Harrison or Solarte, the latter of whom […]
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in RR3-land. Thanks to everyone for another great year of Rangers talk, baseball talk, and talk about everything and anything else.
With the hiring of their new pitching coach, the Rangers coaching staff is now mostly set. Yesterday, Texas announced Julio Rangel will replace Doug Brocail as the team’s pitching coach. Rangel never pitched or coached in the major leagues. As a player, he spent seven seasons mostly in the Yankees […]
It was deGrom and Snell for Cy Youngs. A lot of debate about both, but in my opinion both were no brainers. With deGrom it was he only had ten victories. With Snell it was he had the fewest innings pitched of any starter to win the award. Neither had […]
