Rangers take I-35 north the whole damn way - 4 games @ MIN 5/3-5/6

[DT LUNA]

Hope I am wrong but it seems to many of our posters have moved on else where. It is very obvious the lack of interest is fading. This board was once alive and fun. Can be again but how do we build the interest up once more?

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Hope I am wrong but it seems to many of our posters have moved on else where. It is very obvious the lack of interest is fading. This board was once alive and fun. Can be again but how do we build the interest up once more?

I've made an attempt to keep it lively

 

[DT LUNA]

I've made an attempt to keep it lively

Yes you have and I appreciate it. Thanks and I will do what I can.

 

[DT LUNA]

Get it started Willie and let's pull this one out.

 

[DT LUNA]

I wonder if MLB will take action to correct the shift in 2022.

 

[DT LUNA]

Got to give you credit Joey. Well hit HR to make it close.

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

Get it started Willie and let's pull this one out.

Close

 

[Kelleyman]

Got to give you credit Joey. Well hit HR to make it close.

Appreciate it

 

[True Rangers Fan]

1 for 9 w/RISP will bite you in the ass

 

[saddles]

One of my favorite Rangers of all time.

 

[DT LUNA]

1 for 9 w/RISP will bite you in the ass

So will 2 unearned runs. Should have been a easy win.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

So will 2 unearned runs. Should have been a easy win.

This team is turning my hair gray(er).

 

[Uncle Siggy]

So did Woody have faith in Allard to get the job done or no faith in the hitters to get the job done

 

[True Rangers Fan]

So did Woody have faith in Allard to get the job done or no faith in the hitters to get the job done

woody doesn't strike me as a "have a plan" kinda guy

 

[Nightcrawler]

Hope I am wrong but it seems to many of our posters have moved on else where. It is very obvious the lack of interest is fading. This board was once alive and fun. Can be again but how do we build the interest up once more?

the issue between the cable providers and Sinclair isn’t Helping things at all.

 

[saddles]

This is behind a paywall, so I couldn't read it, but Janey Newberg says one of these prospects is Evan Carter.

 

[DT LUNA]

woody doesn't strike me as a "have a plan" kinda guy

Agree. There is a time and place for small ball. RE: Gallo

 

[saddles]

A look at a very young prospect.

Mr. Clean: A Look at Dylan MacLean’s Mechanics

HufftheMagicDragon Takes a Look at an Intriguing Rangers’ Prospect

www.lonestarball.com

 

[saddles]

Jamey Newberg just released an article on The Athletic about which prospects' seasons are the most anticipated. Here are a few quotes.

1) There are those in the organization who would be unsurprised if Seise, with a full year of health, ends the year as the system’s top-ranked prospect.

2) Perhaps the three players with the most surprising months at the Rangers’ alternate training site were 2B-SS Yonny Hernandez, who posted a .926 OPS with fewer strikeouts (four in 52 plate appearances) than walks (seven); OF Carl Chester (1.042 OPS), the player to be named later from the Rays in the Rangers’ six-player December trade for Lowe; and RHP Jason Bahr, whose 18 strikeouts in 12 2/3 alternate-site innings were well above his career rate of just over a strikeout per inning.

3) The Frisco roster features 12 pitchers on my list, but it’s Winn, the youngest player on the team, who offers the most promise for a franchise whose lineup reconstruction is ahead of the remaking of the starting rotation.


4) The Down East roster is full of key prospects who will make their pro debuts this week.

Among them are 2018 draftees Owen White and Mason Englert, right-handers who signed out of high school but had elbow reconstructions before the 2019 season and had nowhere to pitch once healthy midway through 2020; RHP Tekoah Roby and CF Evan Carter, two of the four high schoolers the Rangers selected in 2020’s five-round draft; and RHP Dane Acker, the Oakland fourth-round pick from last summer who came to Texas along with Davis and Jonah Heim in February’s Elvis Andrus trade.

Roby’s hype might have exceeded White’s and Englert’s from two summers before, but it’s Acker — and the uptick in velocity he flashed in spring training — who has generated the most buzz before Tuesday’s opener. Carter may be the most fascinating prospect in the Rangers system, however. Drafted in Round 2 last year when several online evaluators acknowledged knowing nothing about him, the Duke commit dazzled at Fall Instructs, hitting .304/.467/.446 (.913 OPS) and leading the Rangers in walks. Carter, a 6-4 outfielder who the Rangers believe can stay in center field, will play most of the year at age 18, sure to make him one of the youngest players in the newly constructed “Low-A East.”

 

[DT LUNA]

Agree. There is a time and place for small ball. RE: Gallo

Joey could help beat the shift by laying down a bunt down 3rd base. Much better than K and could move runners up in scoring position that in many cases end in a dbl play. Not what we expect from a power hitter but is better than what he is currently providing. Expect he will work out some problems and start producing again but until then he can produce other ways.