During yesterday’s game, after a particulary good at-bat in which Robinson Chirinos battled for a walk with bases loaded to score the Rangers first of what would eventually be six second-inning runs, the Rangers announcers were praising this team on their new patient approach at the plate. This progress […]
Attendance is down in baseball ten percent. Attendance is down in Arlington fifteen percent. That is according to the Dallas Morning News. But you don’t have to read the local paper to know that. All you have to have is a working pair of eyes, or even one working […]
It looks like this year is going to be the year Rangers fans see the future. Gallo, Mazara, Odor. After all those years at the helm, all those draft picks that didn’t pan out, all those prospects that were traded for the likes of Matt Garza and Ryan Dempster, Jon […]
A win is a win, even when it doesn’t count. And it’s good to see the Rangers Uniforms get a come-from-behind win in spring training against the White Sox Uniforms. A solo home run by phenom right fielder Ryan Hood in the seventh tied the game, and then much heralded […]
You have to like this. It’s spring training. Games mean nothing. Stats mean nothing. Performance means nothing. It’s just four worthless weeks of players in your favorite team’s uniforms. Even so, Joey Gallo got in an umpire’s grill yesterday after a called third strike. He said it was because, […]
The Matt Bush experiment got off to a solid start. He pitched two scoreless innings, gave up one hit and recorded one strikeout. Of course, it was against minor leaguers wearing Colorado Rockies uniforms, so his performance needs to be taken with a large grain of salt. But he mostly […]
Spring training stats mean nothing. Especially early spring. But it was nice to see Jurickson Profar get a single. He is going to stick around, so he might as well be serviceable. So far he has been dreadful as a major leaguer in four seasons. Batting average: .176, .234, .239, […]
Until opening day actually happens, there will be seemingly daily articles trying to predict the Rangers opening day twenty-five-man roster. Here is the first of year, from T. R. Sullivan of mlb.com. Of course, his guess here is as good as anyone else’s. It really comes down to if Bartolo […]
Now we wait. We wait for pitchers and catchers to arrive. We wait for pre-season picks. We wait for last-minute signings. We wait for the season to actually begin. We wait for baseball. Because right now there is nothing,
