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 …

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 …

April 1st is looming along with some very tough decisions that the Texas Rangers have to make. Going over final roster decisions, there could be as many as 5 non roster invitees that deserve to make this team. That would force the Rangers to clear five spots in the process. With a young roster, this could force some eye opening …

There are a lot of full roster predictions out there for opening day 2021. In fact the Rangers Nation Podcast did a ‘Way Too Early Prediction ” episode with Alex Plinck of Dallas Sports Fanatic and Chris Halicke of Sports Illustrated. The plan is to do another one very soon. We haven’t decided which podcast it will air on. I …

Should Nate Lowe begin the 2021 season in Round Rock? This is not the question the Rangers were planning on asking themselves. In a trade that had most Texas fans excited about this coming season, the Rangers went and got what they assumed was their new starting first baseman. December 10th the Rangers sent Osleivis Basabe, Heriberto Hernandez, and Alexandr …

Rangers President of Baseball Operations Jon Daniels sat down with the media this morning to answer a few questions, one of which was a bit eye-opening. Daniels was asked if Guzman had any extra considerations of making the team since he is out of options cannot be sent to the minor leagues without first clearing waivers. A comparison was made …

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, …

Disclaimer: I am a huge conspiracy theorist when it comes to baseball and trades. I study every transaction and try to work up crazy trade theories in my weird lizard brain. In honor of today being a normal trade deadline day, my cranium started plotting some moves the Ranger just made. First let’s study the facts that surround trading players …

After the Rangers lost their final exhibition game to the Colorado Rockies, manager Chris Woodward started out his post-game press conference with an announcement. “So, I will tell you guys our final roster moves I guess”, he started out. “We kept Ian Gibaut, Kolby Allard, and Joe Palumbo for our bullpen. We also kept Guzman, Refsnyder, Heineman, and Taveras”, he …

The Texas Rangers open the season this Friday, July 24th against the Colorado Rockies. Due to COVID, they are allowed to start the season with 30 players. They have to pair it back to 28 after one week and then back to 26 at the end of two weeks. It’s is time to make roster predictions. Players in Bold are …