Last time I posted our Rangers had concluded their first road trip with a 4-2 record. They were preparing to welcome Cincinnati and Seattle for the first home stand. After starting out so well they were excited to be home, and optimistic they could continue to win. Then the Reds came in and won three games. The fans began the early season overreaction. Then Texas won the next three games over the Mariners, and the mood shifted again. In those six games, the Rangers scored 12

So far so good. Our Rangers had an Opening Day on the road in the City of Bootherly Love (spelling intentional), stopped by beautiful Camden Yards, and came home with a nice 4-2 record. I believe we would all be happy to continue on that pace! You can’t really form any definite conclusions after the first week of the season, but I am pretty sure that Nathan Eovaldi will not be the only Texas pitcher with a loss. Neither he nor Jacob deGrom looked very good in their starts, bu

Usually at this time I wish everyone Happy New Year since it’s the start of baseball season. This year it feels a little different, because the powers that be are choosing to have “Opening Night” only available on Netflix. Once again no one from the Commisioner’s office asked my opinion on this matter. This is another attempt to “make the game available to more people” but I don’t really think it works that way. What about the millions of people who don’t have Netflix? Or don

I’m pretty sure that Van Halen wasn’t talking about baseball, but the phrase applies to the state of starting pitching in Major League Baseball today. Finishing what they started is almost nonexistent. In 1974, Texas Ranger pitcher Ferguson Jenkins was the MLB leader in complete games, with 29. There were eight others with 20 or more, and there were 1089 complete games thrown by the 24 professional teams in existence at the time. In 2025, three pitchers (Tanner Bibee, Framber