Yet another member of the Clemens family was drafted by the Houston Astros and will play for the Texas Longhorns. Seven-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roger Clemens‘ third son, Kacy Clemens, was drafted by the Astros in the 35th round (1,037th overall) of the 2013 MLB Draft, but has decided to forgo a direct path [...]
Baseball blasphemy has been spoken by Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts. At the City Club of Chicago on Wednesday, Ricketts said if the Cubs are not able to add a 6,000-square-foot video board in the outfield at Wrigley Field, he will consider moving the team from its historic home. Say it ain’t so! The Cubs [...]
There’s definitely something special about Washington Nationals sophomore sensation Bryce Harper. The No. 1 overall pick in 2010 is on an absolute tear after earning All-Star honors as a rookie and is well on pace to winning the NL MVP award this season. He’s becoming a truly elite player as he went 4-5 on Wednesday [...]
The Los Angeles Dodgers are still without prize free agent pitcher Zack Greinke and will be for the next month and a half, so they were upset to begin with when San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin only received an eight-game suspension for starting a brawl that resulted in Greinke breaking his collarbone. Then to add [...]
Carlos Quentin is a disgrace to baseball. He’s an idiot and should be punished for his childish behavior that resulted in a brawl during the San Diego Padres‘ 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday. The pitch from Zack Greinke that hit Quentin was not intentional. Period. If you believe that it was, [...]
The debate as to what the Texas Rangers wanted to do regarding their crowded infield was settled in the wee hours of Monday morning when the team signed shortstop Elvis Andrus to an eight-year, $120 million contract extension. At least that’s when the rest of the world found out. The deal wasn’t negotiated during that [...]
It’s been very easy for Texas Rangers fans to forget about Nelson Cruz‘s name being mentioned among the players who allegedly received PEDs from the Biogenesis clinic in Miami. However, those folks received an extremely disturbing reminder over the weekend as MLB announced a 100-game suspension for Detroit Tigers minor league pitcher Cesar Carrillo, who [...]
It had been five months since Derek Lowe had pitched in a game, so he was naturally a little rusty in his spring debut with the Texas Rangers, but he proved he’s more than just a warm body at 39 years old. Lowe was rather sharp after knocking off the rust, especially for a guy [...]
The Texas Rangers made a complete turnaround over the past three seasons by making superb managerial and personnel decisions, the most important of which was naming Nolan Ryan team president in 2008. Since then, the Rangers have been on the way up with only one setback–the late-season collapse in 2012 that resulted in a way-too-early playoff [...]
Over the past three seasons, the Texas Rangers have enjoyed incredible success that the franchise never experienced in its entire previous history. The back-to-back World Series trips and then a playoff birth in 2012 delighted fans and filled the Ballpark in Arlington as it never had been before. However, Rangers fans have already become spoiled [...]
