A New Bullpen Lowe
Opening Night. Baseball fans across the globe spent the day either hunting Easter eggs, watching NCAA basketball, or both. As the day lingered the anticipation grew to a Christmas morning type fever...
View ArticleThe Ace
You will not find any clever puns in this article like you will probably read throughout the day today in other articles and publications. The use of those puns was so 2012 and it would be unhip for me...
View ArticleThe “Manager”
On Sunday the Texas Rangers lost to the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in another close, low-scoring affair. The Rangers offense has gotten off to a slow start compared to their 2012 season and of course the...
View ArticlePrepping For June
The Texas Rangers are off to a great start so far this season and currently have the second best record in the American League at 16-8. There have been a lot of discussions in the media and amongst the...
View ArticleEarly Observations
Baseball Prospectus does a semi-regular series where they will stop and evaluate and analyze their general observations of the season at certain points throughout the summer. After reading their latest...
View ArticleWash Is Just Gonna Wash
I love false narratives. As Peter Ellwood pointed out in the introduction of a recent article seen here, at SDI we take pride in digging deeper than most to make sure no stone is unturned and that what...
View ArticleSequencing
Saturday June 1st, 2013 marked the first time this season that I had issues with Robbie Ross and/or AJ Pierzynski. For the record, this article and the aforementioned issue is isolated to this instance...
View ArticleThe Rosin Bag: Ross Wolf
The Rosin Bag is a new weekly series that highlights and examines the best and sometimes the worst pitching performances of the week for the Texas Rangers. Last Saturday the Texas Rangers played one of...
View ArticleThe Rosin Bag: Yu Darvish
The Rosin Bag is a new weekly series that highlights and examines the best and sometimes the worst pitching performances of the week for the Texas Rangers. Yu Darvish is one of the elite pitchers in...
View ArticleThe Rosin Bag: Martin Perez
The Rosin Bag is a weekly series that highlights and examines the best and sometimes the worst pitching performances of the week for the Texas Rangers. In the 2010 Baseball Prospectus, Martin Perez was...
View ArticlePigskin Rationale
We hear all the time that baseball is a marathon and not a sprint and more often than not that comment is typically followed by a lazy comparison between the average Rangers fan and a typical Cowboys...
View ArticleTHE Spring Training
It’s hard to imagine warm weather and sultry summer days at the Ballpark in Arlington as we suffer through the recent frigid temperatures, but it will be here before we know it. As spring approaches,...
View ArticleA Catching Conundrum
Ron Washington in 2014 has been given a completely new lineup structure from what he had to work with in 2013. Last year’s struggles with driving in runs was well documented and it’s safe to say that...
View ArticleWhat If?
By now everyone is well versed in the comments Ian Kinsler made blasting the Texas Rangers and Jon Daniels. I have no intentions of giving my opinions about Kinsler because that horse has been beaten...
View ArticleGimme Three Pitches Perez
This game is pretty simple when you strip away all of the little nuances, in-game managerial options, and discussions of advanced metrics. The game really boils down to It. It wins you games. It can...
View ArticleHoles
What did I expect? This last 10 game-stretch for the Texas Rangers has been bad. Yes, it was nice to go into Anaheim and win the series, but that bright spot is surrounded by a lot of bad baseball....
View ArticleRocks
I’ve learned so many valuable things from experienced and excellent coaches during my fourteen-year coaching career, and the majority of those lessons have nothing to do with X’s or O’s, but life...
View ArticleThe Last Time
It is time for us to realize that this Rangers team is not going to the promised land this year (I pray and hope that I am wrong and will be glad to eat crow if I am). I am not trying to imply that...
View ArticleShould I Stay or Should I Go?
There are several options for the Texas Rangers and their front-office personnel this coming trade deadline, but unlike the past few years this team will be building for 2015 and beyond instead of...
View ArticleAnalyzing Elvis
Elvis Andrus has been a topic of controversy for Ranger fans this season because of his struggles at the plate. The expectations for Elvis Andrus may be a bit unfair, but when you cash in and get the...
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