Chris Gimenez was Yu Darvish’s personal catcher for parts of two seasons in Texas. Thad Levine was the assistant GM in all but Darvish’s last year with the Rangers. And in an article by Mike Berardino of TwinCities.com, it seems like that tandem might be putting on the full-court press to lure Darvish to Minneapolis. […]
Who’s better right now: Rafael Palmeiro or Tim Tebow?
He’s never going to play in the big leagues. Let’s get that out of the way right now. There are too many players, elite athletes who have spent their entire lives honing every seemingly-insignificant detail of their game to become the elite of the elite—this many years out of the game is too big an […]
Winter Meetings Day 2: re-Yu-nion? I apologize for this headline.
Earlier today, after the news broke that Arlington native Chris Martin would be returning home for the 2018 season, there was a brief flurry of Twitter action when one national reporter tweeted that the Rangers and Mets were in talks about a Jurickson Profar / Matt Harvey deal. It didn’t seem to make much sense […]
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, […]
The Art of Moving On
I still remember the exact seat that she sat in. I was six, and I was both frustrated and impressed that a girl was the fastest kid in my kindergarten class. I couldn’t outrun her, and I was in awe of her. So one day after recess, heart beating fast from the latest footrace lost […]
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 […]