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 […]
What does 2018 hold for Ryan Rua?
Opening day, 2015. The Rangers and Yovani Gallardo are at O.co Stadium taking on the Oakland Athletics and Sonny Gray, who has allowed nary a single in seven innings. With the count 0-2, Ryan Rua smacks a ground ball between first and second base. The no-hit bid is over. Five pitches later, so is Rua’s […]
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 […]