(Editor’s Note: We at the Upset are sorry for the unsettling photo. Also, the editor is me, Levi. Furthermore, I’m not actually sorry. I almost went Full Horrifying and added sea creatures, but decided this was sufficiently creepy for one January afternoon.) The whole scenario is a bit like a game of musical chairs. As […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s still the pitching, stupid.
A quick addendum to the earlier article about potential starting pitching targets: I asked Jon Daniels if—after the acquisitions of Doug Fister and Mike Minor—any position players were starting to creep up the priority list. Despite recent rumors that the Rangers might be interested in Carlos Santana, Daniels said that pitching was still the first, […]
12/9/17 – The Rangers Upset Update, featuring: Jake Diekman’s award
The intro to the Upset Update got a little long, so I made it into its own entry over in the Writer’s Room: “Welcome to the Winter Meetings“. It has been a day. Let’s get to rounding up the baseball stuff from the last few days. 1. Shohei Ohtani chose the Angels. …Welcome to the […]