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RANGERS HALL OF FAME: NOLAN RYAN
This is the second in a series of profiles on members of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame, and it’s about one of the most dominant and polarizing figures in the team’s history: Nolan Ryan. As a player he...
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Texas Rangers’ Summer Shopping Wish List
The Texas Rangers are currently the best team in the American League. This season has been incredible thus far, even with little to no production from many expected big time contributors. Moving...
View ArticleWith one trial down, another difficult test awaits Texas
It’s June 24th and the Texas Rangers are enjoying their largest division lead at the earliest point in time in franchise history. They just finished a stretch of 20 games in 20 days, made possible by a...
View ArticleNo way around it: The Rangers need a starting pitcher
0.2. 4.0. 4.1. 4.0. 4.2. Those numbers listed above are the amount of innings the Rangers starting pitchers have completed going into the final weekend before the All Star Break. With Derek Holland,...
View ArticleThe Man in the Arena: Jon Daniels and the quest to find a complimentary ace...
This is an installment in our Trade Week series, where writers focus on potential moves the Rangers might make ahead of the July 31st trade deadline. “…The credit belongs to the man who is actually...
View ArticleHow a Brewers battery could supercharge the Rangers’ title hopes
Trade season is here, and the Rangers are spinning in and out of the rumor tornadoes. For months they have been linked to Jonathan Lucroy of the Milwaukee Brewers. Those rumors have yet to die, even...
View ArticleRay(s) of hope: Tampa Bay the key to Texas’ pitching revival
When I first started playing fantasy football in 1995, I joined an existing league and one of the veteran owners warned me, “That guy is the devil. Don’t make any trades with the devil, you’ll regret...
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Looking at what’s wrong with Sam Dyson
Our lives are consumed with finding answers. What’s our purpose in life? What happens when we die? Where are you getting your energy? The trade deadline is a marketplace of questions and answers. Just...
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A Moment of Majesty: The Michael Young Retirement Ceremony
Much to the dismay of many, baseball is changing. Gone are the days where anecdotes and plain vision are the story-telling tools of choice. They’re still employed, but they’re no longer the only thing...
View ArticleSDI MD: Examining The Injury History of the New Texas Rangers
If you’re reading this, you survived. The trade deadline that is. Let me just start off by saying all of the anxiety, suspense, twitter refreshing, pacing around, nausea and vomiting WAS SO WORTH IT....
View ArticleDiagnosing(and curing) the Rangers’ offensive maladies
I don’t think it’s a big secret that a lot of analysis is based in guesswork. At least in how you start. You identify a problem or situation, before figuring out what’s wrong or right. It’s rare that...
View ArticleWinning Pieces: How Texas can maximize their bullpen in 2016
There are few things in baseball more amazing than the evolution of bullpens. From not existing when the game began to the reason Kansas City won their title last season, the progress is stunning....
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Jonathan Lucroy deserves an extension; Texas should give it to him
Background/Current Situation Full disclosure: I’ve wanted the Rangers to acquire a long-term solution at catcher for a while. I’ve been banging the drum for Jonathan Lucroy for over a year now. August...
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Texas Rangers Opening Day 2017
Opening Day for the 2017 season is finally upon us. Months of following rumors, trades, acquisitions and news around the league have all led us to this point. Your college football and basketball...
View ArticleLucroy On The Block As Rangers Limp Into All-Star Break
The Rangers beat the Red Sox 8-2 on Wednesday night, giving their fans a brief reprieve from what has been a dismal ten days for the club. The Rangers have won just three of their last ten ballgames;...
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Before Beltre was Beltre
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 dawned much like it’s counterpart seven years hence over the Ballpark. Warmer in terms of climate (46 degrees) but cooler in the hearts of Rangers fans. Rangers’ fans...
View ArticleBelief in Things Unseen
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” –...
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What to do about a hometown boy made good?
“You can struggle for a little while. It’s going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn’t mean he’s a .200 hitter.” – Jake Arrieta At the prime of his powers, Jake Arrieta threw the best...
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