Not Real Baseball: 2016 Rangers Fantasy Value
I’m ready for baseball. I’m ready for real baseball. For games that count. For stats that matter. I’m ready for more fake baseball (no, not extra spring training games). I’m ready to root…
Read more →F. Brandon Linthicum
It’s Gameday
162+ That’s what every Major League team and fan base hopes for. Six grueling, grinding months of baseball, filled with constant ups and downs, droughts and hot streaks; all in the hopes of having a…
Read more →Rangers Countdown
A quick countdown of the numbers that lead the Rangers to their unlikely American League West title: 50- The number of games that Josh Hamilton played this season. Broken down, this means the Rangers…
Read more →One Strike Away
For as long as I have the mental capabilities to understand baseball, those words will haunt me. Not one game, not one inning, not one out. One Strike. One strike away from a World…
Read more →2015 Postseason Awards: My IBWAA Ballot
Postseason awards are always incessantly debated. The discourse goes on from one fan base to the next, from writer to writer, and gets countless hours of air time on every major sports network. The…
Read more →Defeating the Odds
Baseball is a game of odds. Each situation, each at bat, each pitch is a chess match based on statistics and probabilities, carefully calculated by both players and managers. What pitch is thrown in…
Read more →Rangers DFA Neftali Feliz
Tonight’s game was ugly after the first inning, but the real gut punch came 45 minutes after the games conclusion. The Texas Rangers have DFA’d Neftali Feliz to make room on the 40-man for…
Read more →Slump Buster- Open Dialogue
Keeping in the tradition of weird baseball superstitions, I am going to try something a little different tonight in an attempt to end the four game losing streak. As the game goes on, I…
Read more →Cold Streak
Man…….maybe I should have never gone on vacation. Baseball is a game of ebbs and flows, and the Rangers have transitioned from a full flow to a temporary ebb. Here are a few…
Read more →While I was away…..
It’s nice to be back, I’ve missed you guys (well, most of you). In lieu of writing any meaningful piece on baseball, I present to you a random collection of (mostly) Rangers observations I…
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