Texas Rangers

Every statue has a story behind it; the firefighter statue erected by the Texas Rangers baseball team had a very emotional but equally touching story too.

Some say that it's probably the funniest story that the legendary baseball player, Mickey Mantle, ever told.

Grieve has been a color commentator on Texas Rangers TV broadcasts since 1995. He called about 25 games in 2021.

After Wednesday's game against Arizona, the Texas Rangers were still finalizing details of an eight-player trade with the New York Yankees centered around OF Joey Gallo.

The Texas Rangers are a bad baseball team. Nearly 100 games into the season the Rangers are well on their way to 100 losses. This poor season comes a year after the team had the second-worst record in baseball in the COVID-19 plagued season of 2020...

New Era Caps, a hat company that specializes in sports hats, put out a line of hats yesterday that were supposed to highlight the local markets of Major League Baseball teams. Here's an overview. The problem with these hats is that they have generic clipart borderline emojis that barely reflect the markets they are attempting to reflect...

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The Texas Rangers are planning to become the first team in any of the major U.S.-based sports leagues to have a full-capacity crowd at its home games since the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago.

Both the Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys announced today that they will be opening at full capacity when their respective seasons' kick-off. The Dallas Cowboys obviously have plenty of time to announce protocol and see where the COVID-19 rates are closer to the season before announcing their plan, but the Texas Rangers don't have the same benefit of time with their season starting in early April.

Lance Lynn was dealing in 2019 but the Texas Rangers held on to him because Jon Daniels and the front office seemingly thought they would compete in 2020. The world had a much different idea for the 2020 baseball season. Lance Lynn was the only consistent thing for the Texas Rangers and even with the Rangers clearly out of contention, the Texas Rangers held on to their ace at the trade deadline...

There's some drama in the AL West at the trade deadline. Not so much for the Rangers and their playoff hopes, but they did send Mike Minor to the Oakland Athletics for two mystery prospects and some money. Reports are out that the Rangers will also send around $700,000 of Minor's remaining salary in exchange for a 19-year-old center fielder, Marcus Smith, and a 20-year-old corner infielder, Dustin

Matt Hicks will be out indefinitely, and Eric Nadel will take the weekend off out of an abundance of caution.