Rangers Hire Dave Magadan As New Hitting Coach
Dave Magadan has been hired to replace Scott Coolbaugh as the Texas Rangers hitting coach, only weeks after the team collapsed down the stretch and lost the AL West title.
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Dave Magadan has been hired to replace Scott Coolbaugh as the Texas Rangers hitting coach, only weeks after the team collapsed down the stretch and lost the AL West title.
The Rangers reportedly have interest in outfielder B.J. Upton. While they like the 27-year-old outfielder, they would prefer to play him in a corner instead of center field.
The City of Arlington is considering stricter limitations on smoking at Rangers Ballpark. The proposal may have some baseball fans fuming. But smoking will not be banned entirely.
After going to the last two World Series, Texas failed to win even one game this October. They lost 10 of their last 14 overall, including a sweep at Oakland to end the regular season.
We should be happy we were in first place in the AL West for 178 days this year. We should be happy our team had four straight winning seasons for the first time ever in franchise history.
As Bill Shakespeare's Hamlet would say..."it should not have come to this"
Josh Hamilton's night: 4 at-bats. 8 pitches. 5 outs. 2 strikeouts. 0 balls out of the infield. Like his team – which scored only 1 run in its final 15 innings – Josh ended with barely a whimper.
Impending free agent Josh Hamilton, speaking with reporters after Friday's wild card loss to the Baltimore Orioles, said that there is a 50/50 chance he'll return to the Texas Rangers next season, according to Jon Machota for The Dallas Morning News.
There was no way Texas Rangers fan Colton Burton was missing his team's chance to win this Wild Card matchup against the Baltimore Orioles.
Ryan Dempster is the only rotation member not on the 25-man roster the Rangers set for Friday night's game. Dempster started the regular-season finale Wednesday.
I brought the Josh Hamilton break up theory to light before the season began, in fact immediately after the Sherlock's incident, and let me rewind to show how close to right I have been.
Weird, unprecedented scene/vibe tonight in Arlington. Rangers-Orioles will play Game 1, which will actually be a Game 7.
After a grinding stretch when the Texas Rangers lost nine of their last 13 games, and the AL West crown in the process, manager Ron Washington gave his players the day off Thursday.
By sometime Friday night, either Chipper Jones will be out of baseball or the defending World Series champion Cardinals will be out of the playoffs. One and done.
Workload, injuries and performance enhancing drugs -- there are all kinds of reasons that teams are playing several men down. Many are left hurting in October as the playoffs begin.
Miguel Cabrera has achieved baseball immortality. Tigers manager Jim Leyland had tears welling in his eyes. First baseman Prince Fielder simply shook his head in disbelief.
The A's captured their first division crown in six years with another improbable rally in a season full of them, coming back once more to stun the Rangers 12-5 on Wednesday.
Yu is 16-9 with a 3.90 ERA in 29 starts and 191 1-3 innings in his first major league season after a stellar career in Japan.
The Rangers – despite 7 more All-Stars and more than double the payroll – are in danger of an epic choke job to a team of which I bet you can't name 4 players.
Which loss on Monday was more disappointing: the Cowboys or the Rangers and why? Gina Miller (@thatsportsgirl) will read the best answers on the Fan Sports Show tonight at 6:30.
Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said someone posted a homophobic slur on pitcher Derek Holland's Twitter account Sunday that was directed at a heckler.
Coco Crisp's latest big hit helped put the A's in the playoffs for the first time in six years, and they remained in contention for a division crown by beating the Rangers 4-3 on Monday.
Hisashi Iwakuma gets the Angels on Tuesday, which could be a tough matchup, but the Angels could be eliminated by that game as well.
Mike Napoli homered twice and drove in six runs as the Texas Rangers assured themselves and two other teams of spots in the playoffs with an 8-7 victory Sunday night, earning a doubleheader split against the Los Angeles Angels.
Ian Kinsler hit a leadoff homer to start a five-run first inning, Matt Harrison got his 18th victory, and the two-time defending AL champs held on for a 9-7 victory on Thursday.
