Arlington, Texas – The Texas Rangers took on the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night, Memorial day with a new third baseman: Josh Smith. At AAA Round Rock in 2022 Smith was hitting .273/.382/.422 with 4 home runs and 29 RBI. In the first inning of the contest, Eli White saved a 3 run homer with a fantastic catch in center …
Step right up! Step right up! The Texas Rangers General Store is open for business and nothing in the store is off limits. (This is essentially the scene in Arlington as Chris Young embarks on his first trade deadline) In other words, “look around and see if there is anything you need, although this isn’t a going out of business …
The Texas Rangers have officially started the 2021 season. I think back to the 1966 Clint Eastwood film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Although the movie synopsis has no resemblance to the game against the Royals, the title does. Nobody expects the Rangers the compete for anything other than a Top 5 pick in the 2022 draft. There …
We are less than a week from the Opening Day and it’s time to put out our final roster prediction. I got together with Chris Halicke of Sports Illustrated and Alex Plinck of Dallas Sports Fanatic to do a series of predictions for final roster spots. We did one for the Rangers Nation Podcast first. Then we got back together …
With the trade for Nate Lowe from the Tampa Bay Rays, the Texas Rangers are starting to come to shape. There are more moves likely to happen, but I thought it might be fun to look at what the opening day roster might be with the starting lineup. Let’s go with the roster, depth chart, and opening day lineup. Remember, …
The Rangers aren’t good. This much we know. But, the season is already halfway over, and now the team is facing a rebuild. The team is in a reevaluating period, which means we’ll see a lot of young talent playing at the major league level. With that in mind, who should you keep an eye on? Rafael Montero Montero has …
The 2020 trade deadline has come and gone and the Rangers made “Minor” moves. With most of America essentially waiting on the dominoes to fall, the Rangers left with the ones that brought them. Brought them to a putrid record of 12-24 and 9.5 games out of first in the AL West They did trade LHP Mike Minor to Oakland …
Willie Calhoun was hit in the jaw by a 95 MPH fastball from LA Dodgers Julio Urias in a Spring Training game yesterday. The club announced that a CT scan revealed a fractured jaw and he will undergo further evaluation. Calhoun has put in the work and was looking forward to a breakout season in 2020. He has had a …
The Texas Rangers are winding down to the end of the 2019 season. A season that has them doing far better than expected when it started. Even the most confident prognosticators had them finishing with only 70 to 78 wins. As of now, they are on course to finish with 80 to 85 wins. The Rangers finished the 2018 season …
The Texas Rangers have started out the first month of 2019 season by playing .500 baseball. Although this is better than most prognosticators predicted, it has driven some fans into a total meltdown. Outperforming your expectations can make the Jon Daniel haters crazy. So they grasp onto any current slump or failure and rail on the player through social media. …
