Names To Look For on the 40 Man Roster
Rosters expand in a mere 3 days. From September 1st to the end of the regular season, which is September 29th this year, any player on the 40 man roster is allowed to be used by the big club during the...
View ArticleThe Bench of Misfit Toys
Roster fluidity. As the season creeps up to its start, we the fans heard that phrase almost a million times over the last few days. The 25 man roster is finally set, but it looks vastly different in...
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Catcher Conundrum
Geovany Soto is out until late May, early June. This injury is just one of many that set back the Rangers plans for 2014 before the season even began. Surprisingly, the starting pitching is giving it’s...
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Numbers Never Lie But My Ex Wife Did A Lot – Part 2
As we continue to examine the Rangers in 2014, one thing comes to light. Depth is hurting the team. As injury after injury decimates the Rangers, players are being asked to do more and perform beyond...
View ArticleThree Bright Spots
Well, we’re here at the de facto halfway point of the 2014 MLB season. To say this season hasn’t gone according to plan would be an understatement. As we enter the All-Star Break, your Texas Rangers...
View ArticleThe State of The Catcher
Since the latter part of 2011, The Catching position has been in a real state of flux for this organization. Yes back in the magical second run at the pennant, Mike Napoli was tagging the heck out of...
View Article2015 Preview – Catcher
As we draw closer to Spring Training 2015, I will continue my tribute to the late Richard Durrett by previewing each position on the Rangers, just as he did. Every position, the pitching staff, and...
View ArticleContract Extensions – Three Up?
One of the more prominent signs of a successful ball club is the ability to lock up talent for the long term, thus establishing a core to build around. Gone is the idea of a “franchise player,” as it’s...
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First Half Report Cards – Part 2
It’s (still) the All Star break and now is the perfect time for the Rangers midterm report cards! Over the next few days, Shutdown Inning will be looking at key Rangers and evaluating their 2015 thus...
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Building the 2016 Rangers – The Position Players
Let me lead off with a qualifier: I’ve tried to be both optimistic and realistic in the moves below. I’ve given us the benefit of the doubt in places, both in terms of trade partners and in terms of...
View ArticleJon Daniels Top 5 Moves
When Rangers General Manager Jon Daniels took over for predecessor John Hart in 2005 as a mere 28-year-old, the Rangers were coming off a 79 win season. Five of the Rangers 10 highest season win totals...
View ArticleALDS preview: INFIELD
TEXAS RANGERS (88-74) We know what the Rangers have in the infield. There is a future MLB Hall of Famer at third in Adrian Beltre, a suddenly rejuvenated, and refocused Elvis Andrus at short, a dirt...
View ArticleA Long Lasting Odor
At the beginning of July – so, before the All-Star Break – I wrote an article detailing three Texas Rangers players that I thought could be due for an extension. As most hypothetical things in...
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In Limbo: What Can The Rangers Get From The DFA Bin?
Friday marked the deadline day when Major League clubs needed to make a decision on which players, that were not already on their 40-man roster, would be added to the 40-man to protect them from the...
View ArticleArbitration Predictions
Wednesday, December 2nd, is the deadline for teams to tender their players that are arbitration eligible. This basically means that the Rangers are telling the player that they want him back. If they...
View Article2016 Position Preview – Catcher
We continue with our position preview with the backstop. Catcher has been something of a rotating door over the years for the Rangers, seeing the likes of A.J. Pierzynski, Geovany Soto, J.P. Arencibia,...
View Article2016 Position Preview – The Bench
The bench, the reserve players, for any baseball team remains one of the easiest to overlook, yet highly impactful part of a 25-man roster. These guys never get the recognition they deserve for trying...
View Article2016 Position Preview – The Bullpen
Times, they are a-changing in the game of baseball. It’s okay, it happens. Baseball used to be a game of power hitting – monstrous home runs, swatted into the next county, abetted by the use of...
View Article2016 Texas Rangers – Full Position Previews
As Pitchers and Catchers report for your Texas Rangers, today, Friday, February 18, 2016, there is something of a different sense of optimism with this club. It’s different than from that 2011 year –...
View ArticleWhy Wasn’t Jonathan Lucroy Traded This Off-Season?
Hey everyone, Steve Boynton here. This is my inaugural post here at SDI – I hope that you all enjoy my content. My background is in my long profile at the bottom of this article if anyone is...
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