Adrian Beltre

Baseball is definitely a game of strategies, and most of the time, the team with the better strategy wins the game. When I say strategy I don’t mean just bunting, ordering a hit and run, squeeze play, etc. The strategy begins with assembling the team. If you don’t put a good team on the field [...]

Now that the Rangers have extended Derek Holland, Elvis Andrus and Nelson Cruz, the next step would be to evaluate the possibility of giving a contract extension to Josh Hamilton. We all know what Hamilton is capable of doing when he’s healthy, and the Rangers should strongly consider extending considering all that they have invested in [...]

As the National Basketball Players Association agreed to a new labor deal back in November, one of the agreed upon terms was the ability to use the amnesty clause provision once. This essentially allowed each team to waive a player without having their salary count toward the salary cap or the luxury tax. The best [...]

The second financial efficiency report we’re going to discuss is for the World Series’ runner up, the Texas Rangers. The Rangers won 96 regular season games, or 47 above the 49 games win line. They paid $92,299,264 in total salaries meaning they paid $1,721,324.77 for every win they got above 49. Their top five paid players were: – [...]

According to Craig Calcaterra of MSNBC, Ron Washington and Bruce Bochy have announced their Starting Lineups. Starting Pitcher for the NL Is Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Starting Pitcher for the AL is Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels. The starting lineups then go as follows: American League 1. Curtis Granderson CF New [...]

Here are a few notes regarding some Major League pitchers: – Right handed pitcher Tommy Hanson led the Braves to a 4-1 win against the Astros thus improving his record On the season to 8-4. In the game, Hanson struck out 14 batters, a career-high for him. He allowed one run and three hits over seven [...]

According to Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman, third baseman Adrian Beltre could be out for a month due to a strained calf.  It previously was reported that the infielder would be not miss any time then it went to 10-14 days, but he now could be cutting it close to missing the team’s Opening Day on [...]

In an article by Buster Olney of ESPN, he mentions that Texas Rangers’ infielder/DH Michael Young is not talking about his trade demands anymore.  However, he hasn’t taken it off the table.  According to Olney, this is what transpired: After he agreed to shift to the DH/super utility role, the Rangers made a sincere and earnest [...]

5. Rangers- Yes the Rangers are in the top 5 in my eyes.  And yes I know they lost out on Cliff Lee. But take away that and the fact they overpaid a bit for Adrian Beltre and they had a decent offseason.  They brought in catcher Yorvit Torrealba as well as Mike Napoli via-trade [...]

Michael Young seems to be getting tired that his fate is being publically discussed on a daily basis so as a result, Young is making it known that he wants out of Texas, Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports reports. “I’ve kept a low profile out of respect for the team, the coaching staff, my family [...]