Jon 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...
View ArticleOut Of The Gates, Onto The Pine: Bench Battle
Let’s face it, there are now zero spots in the Texas Rangers Opening Day 9-man roster to be decided (barring injury, of course). Your likely lineup against the Seattle Mariners’ King Felix Hernandez...
View ArticleRangers Take A Spring Holaday To Solve Their Catching Woes
It’s no secret one of the struggles that have plagued Jon Daniels during his tenure as GM is bench building. Texas, at times, has had below average subs but over the last two seasons, Daniels has made...
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Texas Rangers Hitters in Daily Fantasy Sports (FanDuel, DraftKings, DFS)
Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) is awesome. Greedy politicians who are in the pockets of casinos, and those who fully support lotteries but attempt to eliminate DFS because they find it a “game of chance,”...
View ArticleChirinos To The DL, Choo Out, Mazara Coming Up?
Saturday was a big day for the Rangers. It was announced shortly before game time that right fielder Shin-Soo Choo was being scratched from his start due to a strained calf muscle and that he would be...
View ArticleStop the Whining! Rangers Fans are Spoiled
Right now, it’s Monday morning. It’s about 5:30 and I’m sitting down to write while reviewing the Rangers opening week in my mind. Baseball is back. Not “pitchers and catchers report”. Not spring...
View ArticleChirinos Injury Gives Opportunity Behind the Plate
Aside from the pitcher, the most important defensive position has to be the catcher. If for no other reason at all, this player touches the ball more than any person on the field. Communication with...
View ArticleWinter Patience Paying Early Dividends
Two clichés to ponder: “Patience is a virtue.” “You can’t win the division in April, but you can lose it.” The first has most certainly come into play in being able to use the second. Several of the...
View Article20 in 20: A Huge Test of Managerial Fortitude
From afar, and if we, as fans, only looked at results, the Texas Rangers are in great shape. At .585, they are owners of the second-best winning percentage and record in the American League. Their...
View ArticleBack It Up: The State of Catching in Arlington
Rangers won’t survive having Holaday and Nicolas as their catchers — jamie (@JamieLanders10) April 26, 2016 @Friar_Faithful so why you keep trying to send him to texas. The Rangers already have enough...
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...
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