10 sleepsPitchers & Catchers report to Spring Training on 2/12/2023Opening Day is 3/30/2023 at the Ballpark against the Phillies
10 sleepsPitchers & Catchers report to Spring Training on 2/12/2023Opening Day is 3/30/2023 at the Ballpark against the PhilliesMy bad, times two:
1. I wrote three days ago that Julio Borbon would probably go back to AAA once Nelson Cruz was ready to return to the active roster. Umm, no.
2. I am terrible at watching Jason Jennings pitch. Not since 2007 Jamey Wright have I had a more difficult time watching a Rangers pitcher than I've had watching Jennings the last three months. I get that he's a warrior, but I can't do it any more. The oversimplified book: lay off the breaking ball diving out of the zone, make him throw strikes, and crush those. Good grief, Jason Grilli, get your rehab work in at Frisco and come back. Jennings can't be given the ball in close games.
There are two players on this roster I just can't watch any more, and I can't even bring myself to mention the second one.
Every contending team in baseball is going to lose a bunch of games over the next six weeks, and tonight's was just one of those for Texas.
But that's a really, really tough loss.
Dallas attorney Jamey Newberg has been commenting on Rangers from the big club down through the entire farm system since 1998.
Scott Lucas was born in Arlington, Texas, to Richard and Becky Lucas. He lived mostly in Arlington before moving to Austin, where he graduated from The University of Texas. Scott works for Austin Valuation Consultants, Ltd., and has published several boring articles about real estate appraisal and environmental contamination. He makes a swell margarita and refuses to run longer than ten kilometres.
Eleanor grew up watching the AAA Mudhens in Toledo, Ohio. A loyal Ranger fan since 1979, she works "behind the scenes" at the Newberg Report.
