The streak now reaches 18. In 2000, the Rangers and Lee Stevens went to an arbitration hearing. Stevens had played 146 games in 1999, thanks largely to a knee injury that befell Rafael Palmeiro. Stevens hit .282 with 24 home runs and 81 RBI, and thought that worthy of a contract worth $4.7 million. The […]
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 […]
Scouting Report: Jurickson Profar
This piece has been a long time coming. I saw Jurickson Profar late in the 2017 season when I wanted to see Willie Calhoun (the return for Darvish) in person. I had heard concerning things regarding Profar’s future projection and it was easy to buy into them after his consistently subpar numbers at the MLB […]
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 […]