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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Detroit For Four Games With the Tigers April 15-18

    The Rangers are struggling right now. Things will not get any easier this week as they face the Tigers. The Tigers are 9-6. April 15: RHP Reese Olson (0-1, 5.40 ERA) vs. RHP Michael Lorenzen (0-0, 0.00 ERA) April 16: RHP Casey Mize (0-0, 4.82 ERA) vs. TBD April 17: LHP Tarik Skubal (2-0...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Houston For Three Games With the Astros April 12-14

    After two disappointing series in a row the Rangers hope to get back to a better brand of baseball. The offense needs to wake out of a deep lumber slumber. GameTimes and Starting Pitchers Friday, 7:10 PM CT: Dane Dunning (1-1, 4.15) vs. J.P. France (0-1, 4.76) Saturday, 3:05 PM CT: Andrew...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Host Oakland A's For Three Games April 9-11

    After what turned out to be a disappointing series against the Astros, the Rangers need to get back on track against the A's. We need to win at least 2 games and a sweep should be attainable. The Rangers send out Eovaldi, Bradford and Gray to face Oakland this week. The stats below are from...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Host the Astros for Four Games April 5-8

    Series Preview from Matthew Postins of Sports Illustrated Cody Bradford made his first start of the season last Saturday against the Chicago Cubs and claimed the win for the Texas Rangers. That put him in line to start the series opener against the Houston Astros on Friday. Both the Rangers...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Tampa Bay for Three Games With the Rays April 1-3

    Preview from Athlon Sports The Texas Rangers hit the road for their first trip of the season when they take on the Tampa Bay Rays starting on Monday evening. The three-game series concludes Wednesday. It's the Rangers’ first trip to Tampa since they swept the American League Wild Card series at...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Open the Season by Hosting the Cubs for Three Games March 28-31

    Here we go. Let's get this season started. It is time to start our journey back to the World Series. If you haven't visited the Predictions Thread, please go there and make your predictions. My win total prediction is very optimistic. I cannot wait to get this season underway. It is...
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    2024 Texas Rangers Season Predictions

    2024 Texas Rangers Season Predictions Below is a series of questions that you can feel free to copy and paste and then include your answers. It is always fun to guess what will happen. You can answer all of the questions or just some of them. The more who participate in this, the better. The...
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    World Series Champions, Texas Rangers 2024 Spring Training Thread

    It is time to turn the page to a new season. We start Spring Training today. The one thing the lack of funds that kept the Rangers from spending the last few months has done is allow a few of the prospects and younger guys to get more of a chance this year than they might have otherwise. Guys...
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    World Series Champions, Texas Rangers 2023-2024 Offseason Thread

    We have come to another offseason. This one seems much different than the last few. We have a lot more guys leaving in free agency than in some of the past years. Our needs, going into this offseason, are much fewer than in these last few years. We need to find a way to remain World Series...
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    Series Thread: World Series 2023 Thread Texas Rangers vs. Arizona Diamondbacks October 27 - November 4

    Congratulations to the Texas Rangers and congratulations to all of us. We finally made it back to the World Series after twelve years. A lot of us were not on this board the last time the Rangers made it to the World Series. Several of us were still over at the ESPN Dallas board. Hopefully...
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    Series Thread: Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros in the 2023 ALCS October 15-23

    For the first time it will be an all-Texas American League Championship Series. There will be a lot of interesting storylines concerning the Rangers in this series. These include: 1) Will Max Scherzer be able to join the roster and which role will he be in? 2) Will Jon Gray be able to join...
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    Series Thread: Rangers and Orioles Battle in the ALCS in a Best of Five Matchup October 7-13

    Here we are in the second round of the playoffs. Bring on the Orioles. It will be a little while before they announce the starting pitchers for the first couple of games, but I had posted the following scenario yesterday. Dunning can start Saturday in Game 1, on an extra day of rest...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to St. Petersburg for the Best of Three Wild Card Series with the Rays October 3-5

    Personally, I don't expect much from the Rangers in this series. We will find out soon enough. Even if the Rangers lose, at least their flaws will be made that much more evident. That is likely the only good thing yhat will come from this series. Any experience they get will be more like a...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Close Out Season in Seattle With Four Games September 28 - October 1

    The magic number is down to 2. Any combination of Rangers wins or Astros losses equaling 2, and we win the division.
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to LAA for Three Games September 25-27

    Here we go. The Rangers need to sweep the Angels, and for Seattle to win 2 of 3 from Houston, to give us the Division title.
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    Series Thread: The Rangers Host Seattle For Three Games September 22-24

    Hopefully, the offense can take some pressure off of the pitching staff during this series. The Rangers need to find a way to get the brooms out amd sweep the Mariners.
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    Series Thread: Rangers Return Home to Face Boston for Three Games September 18-20

    The question is, will the offense show up this series or not?
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Cleveland for Three Games September 15-17

    It is time to move on to Ckeveland and keep on winning. Let hope they keep the foot on the throttle.
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Toronto for Four Games September 11-14

    This is a huge series. The Rangers open the series a half game behind the Blue Jays for the last wild card spot. Monday: Dane Dunning Tuesday: Max Scherzer Wednesday: Jordan Montgomery Thursday: Nathan Eovaldi I would like to see Heaney get a chance at a save in one of the last couple of...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Host Oakland for Three Games September 8-10

    Let's see if the Rangers can recover against the lowly A's. Let the Evan Carter era begin.
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    Series Thread: Rangers Host the Astros for Three Games September 4-6

    Let the show down begin. Let's see what this team is made of.
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    Series Thread: Rangers Host the Twins for Three Games September 1-3

    Strength of Remaining Schedule Rangers .507 Mariners .523 Astros .457
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to NY to Meet the Mets for 3 Games August 28-30

    Let's see if the downward trend continues or if the team can turn it around.
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Minnesota for 4 Games August 24-27

    Series Preview via Associated Press Texas Rangers (72-54, first in the AL West) vs. Minnesota Twins (65-62, first in the AL Central) Minneapolis; Thursday, 5:10 p.m. CDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Andrew Heaney (9-6, 4.27 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 122 strikeouts); Twins: Pablo Lopez (9-6, 3.51 ERA...
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    Series Thread: Rangers Travel to Arizona For 2 Games With the Diamondbacks August 21-22

    Hopefully, we can get back on track.
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