Hey friends. Thanks for serving as my creative writing teacher this week, giving me prompts and forcing me to do something other than scrawl band logos in my notepad. This time of year—especially in a slower-than-usual off-season—it can seem like there are no real baseball things to write about, so it’s very helpful to get […]
September’s Beltre and January’s Daniels discuss Adrian’s future with the Rangers
Last September, we were told about an upcoming conversation between Jon Daniels and Adrian Beltre in which the latter—just two years the junior of his employer—would seek assurance from the former that the Rangers would, in fact, not be going into “rebuild mode”. Such a conversation probably isn’t out of the norm. But for him […]
Rangers Mailbag: Defensive Metrics, a Bad Trade Idea, and it’s Fight Time
The first time we did a Rangers mailbag, this thing devolved into ranking the various stages of Cole Hamels’ beard. That seems like an unmitigated success to me, so let’s do another one! How much of an upgrade defensively is Cain to Delino in CF? — Kevin Turner (@ktfuntweets) January 6, 2018 Oh. OH. We’re […]
And Now: Some Wild Speculation and Predictions!
As I type this, it is currently 23° in Dallas, Texas. Were there slightly more precipitation in the air, perhaps we could see white spheres being hurled through the air in a poor approximation of the great game. Instead, we’re just huddled under blankets and wrapping our scarves a little tighter. It’s so cold, you […]
Cold Stove: why the Rangers’ off-season has been so quiet (or has it?)
You might not have noticed the relative lack of content here in the Rangers section of the site. After all, we just careened headlong through the road-trips-and-flight-delays portion of the holiday season, and now you’re unpacking your gifts and begging the kids to get their Lego Foot Destruction blocks off the floor. But the last […]
Community Post: Your 2017
Nothing noteworthy has happened in Rangers world in the last few days. I’m grateful for that; it has been nice not to have to panic-leave any family gatherings to go write up a trade or a free-agent signing. But that also means we don’t have many baseball updates for you. There is one major announcement […]