The 2023 Texas Rangers: Meeting, and Exceeding, Expectations
Here in mid-May, the 2023 Texas Rangers find themselves atop the AL West. In fact, they have occupied first place (solely or in a tie) for the entire season to this point. For fans...
Category: Qualitative
How Meaningful are Opening Day Starts, Really?
Baseball, perhaps more than all other American sports, values tradition. That emphasis on existing conventions is part of what makes baseball special. However, a predisposition to doing things “how they’ve always been done” makes...
Choosing Over or Under on 2022 Texas Rangers ZiPS Projections
Creating projections for MLB players seems to me all at once a Herculean and a Sisyphean task. Creating (“good”) projections is of course quite technically rigorous in the first place, and maintaining those projections...
Contextualizing 2021 for the Texas Rangers
The last decade for the Texas Rangers has been a tale of two halves. The first half of the 2010s featured unprecedented success for the franchise; alternatively the latter half, bluntly put, was a...
Rather Unnecessarily Juxtaposing Two Rangers Prospect Lists
Baseball fans love to speculate on their teams’ top prospects. It is a way to embrace (or perhaps more often, disparage) front office decisions (all from the comfort of your couch!) as well as...
The Early Season Emergence of Adolis García
Adolis García has been a revelation for the Texas Rangers this season. García, who didn’t make the Rangers Opening Day roster, has been quick to make up for lost time since being promoted on...
Early Signs are Good for Kyle Gibson’s Cutter
The 2020 baseball season did not go as planned for Kyle Gibson. Of course, that’s likely a fair statement for all players given obvious 2020-specific reasons. Gibson, however, did not get off to a...
Opportunity, Leverage, and The Road to the Majors
Last month, Fernando Tatís Jr. signed a record-setting contract with the San Diego Padres. However, this post doesn’t have much to do with the Padres or even their relationship with Fernando Tatís Jr. Rather,...
Was 2020 a Death Knell for the 200 Inning Starter?
I have talked about the 200-inning threshold a couple times before. In the middle of the 2019 season, I checked up on the pitchers on pace to surpass that threshold. At the conclusion of...
When is the Rangers’ Window?
Last offseason, I considered the Rangers’ “skinny rebuild” and posited that 2020 would be a crucial season for determining its success. Toward the conclusion of the regular season, Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs also wrote,...
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