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 […]
Rangers Mailbag? Rangers Mailbag (Including Cole Hamels Beard Talk?)
I haven’t ever done a mailbag before, mostly because of my own sense of inadequacy. Imposter syndrome is real, and every day that I cover the Rangers, I’m acutely aware that I’m the guy in the (clubhouse, manager’s office, Winter Meetings) who knows the least about baseball. Spending a decade as a musician before you […]
Winter Meetings Day Five: Rule Five.
“I have forgotten the sun,” one team official texted yesterday from a secluded suite high above the sprawling central Florida complex “where dreams come true”. So have the rest of us—Florida has spent the Winter Meetings trying to freeze us into skepticism about its nickname. Now it is Thursday morning. Team officials and media and […]
Scouting report: Carlos Tocci, Rangers’ Rule Five Addition
With the fourth pick in the Rule 5 Draft, the Chicago White Sox selected Phillies outfield prospect Carlos Tocci. We learned a few minutes later that Tocci was actually being selected by the Rangers, who had purchased Tocci’s rights for yet-to-be-disclosed cash considerations. Despite being a name prospect since shortly after he signed with the […]