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Top prospect Leiter anticipating first home start for Rangers

7:00 PM CDT

ARLINGTON -- Rangers rookie Jack Leiter has been reminded over the past two months that even a top Draft pick with a big league pedigree is not immune to the rigors of bouncing to and from Triple-A as he tries to find a more permanent spot in the Majors. Most

Injuries & Moves: Carter remains out of lineup

6:58 PM CDT

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How to watch Roku MLB Sunday Leadoff FREE

@Spokes_Murphy
2:30 PM CDT

There is a new place to watch free baseball every Sunday this season. Catch your favorite MLB action with Roku MLB Sunday Leadoff, streaming free on The Roku Channel every Sunday morning.

Rangers' bats 'in a funk' after tough series in Colorado

@MannyOnMLB
May 12, 2024

DENVER -- “We’re officially in a funk.” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy admitted his surprise at how poorly his club’s offense performed over the weekend, particularly given the environment. “It’s hard to explain how you come to Colorado and not swing the bats better than we did,” he said. “ …

Who takes the hardest swings on each MLB team?

@Theo_DeRosa and @ColeJacobson32 and @ssc627
9:45 AM CDT

The Statcast era of baseball research has reached another milestone: bat speed is live on Baseball Savant. You can check out this page for more thorough details on what bat speed entails and how it’s calculated. But in the meantime, we’re kicking things off by breaking down the best of

Here's the freshly updated Top 100 Prospects list

@SamDykstraMiLB
May 12, 2024

Break out the caps and gowns. It’s time for a whole bunch of graduations and an updated Top 100 Prospects list. Young players who began the 2024 season on a Major League Opening Day roster with zero MLB service time exhausted their prospect status Sunday by way of the 45-day

Rangers' staff needing to 'step up' after rash of injuries

@kennlandry
May 12, 2024

This story was excerpted from Kennedi Landry’s Rangers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Mother's Day meaningful for Lowe brothers as 'Super Mom' Wendy fights cancer

May 12, 2024

ST PETERSBURG -- Last June brought what Wendy Lowe called a “momentous weekend” full of “lifelong memories” for her family. She and her husband, David, watched their sons, Rangers first baseman Nathaniel Lowe and Rays outfielder Josh Lowe, meet on a Major League field for the first time. The big

Rangers weathering the unexpected through storm of misfortunes

@MannyOnMLB
May 12, 2024

DENVER -- In baseball, the unexpected is expected. The problem is that you can expect the unexpected all you want -- it’s the coping with it that confounds teams. Ask the Rangers. When they arrived in Colorado on Thursday ahead of a weekend series against the Rockies -- the team

Scherzer uncertain about return as rehab is stalled by nerve issue

@MannyOnMLB
May 11, 2024

DENVER -- Max Scherzer, whose recovery from December back surgery was slowed recently due to right thumb soreness, said on Saturday that team doctors believe the problem may actually be a nerve issue that extends up to his right triceps. “I went back to Dallas to see the doctors,” Scherzer

This is the new Single-A team coming to the Rangers' system in 2025

@BensBiz
May 11, 2024

Spartanburg’s nickname is the Hub City, the people who live there are known as Spartanburgers and, hey, come to think of it, who doesn’t love a good burger? Add it all up and you have the name of the South Carolina metropolis’ new Minor League Baseball team: the Hub City

Pitching at Coors paved way for Gray's success in Texas

@MannyOnMLB
May 11, 2024

DENVER -- Jon Gray used to be pretty hard on himself. “I wish I wouldn’t have beat myself up so bad in the past,” Gray said after the Rangers lost to the Rockies at Coors Field on Friday night, 4-2. “I should’ve given myself a pat on the back.”

The most surprising developments for each team

May 9, 2024

There has been no shortage of surprising developments in the 2024 season. Whether they are good or bad developments, or on the player or team-wide level, there are plenty of trends that have already shifted the arc of this season. With the help of each club's MLB.com beat writer, here

Leiter shows promise in shaky start: 'He's got the talent to be here'

@kennlandry
May 8, 2024

OAKLAND -- There’s a lot that goes into a Major League debut. It can be overwhelming, all the attention and the texts and calls from family and friends on top of having to play on the biggest stage. The bright lights in The Show are as big of a deal

Trade for Grossman addresses Rangers' struggles vs. lefties

@kennlandry
May 8, 2024

OAKLAND -- The Rangers as a team are hitting just .231/.288/.343 (.631 OPS) against left-handed pitching, entering Wednesday. It’s been a clear flaw in a team that reached a season-high five games over .500 after a win over the A’s on Tuesday. So general manager Chris Young addressed it quickly

Dunning placed on 15-day IL with right rotator cuff strain

@kennlandry
May 8, 2024

OAKLAND -- The Rangers may have the best rotation in baseball on the injured list as we speak. Texas right-hander Dane Dunning landed on the injured list on Wednesday with a right rotator cuff strain, joining fellow starters Nathan Eovaldi, Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom, Cody Bradford and Tyler Mahle on

How this Rangers 3B prospect was molded by former All-Star pitcher

May 10, 2024

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Gleider Figuereo grew up in Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic, with two former Rangers pitchers as his role models: his dad, Victor, and former Major Leaguer Edinson Volquez. Unlike his dad or Volquez, Figuereo showed potential at the plate and a love for playing the infield,

From rotation to 'pen and back, Teodo grinding

@kennlandry
May 8, 2024

This story was excerpted from Kennedi Landry's Rangers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Potential future closers -- one for each team

@SamDykstraMiLB
May 8, 2024

Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of

Semien's 4-hit day, Texas' 10-run 2nd key rout

Second baseman's 27th career leadoff HR sets tone as bats collect season-high 19 hits vs. A's
@kennlandry
May 7, 2024

OAKLAND -- From the very pitch on Tuesday afternoon, the Rangers had the upper hand. Marcus Semien drove a first-pitch fastball from Ross Stripling 401 feet over the left-center-field wall for a leadoff homer, his third of the season and the 27th of his career, kicking off an offensive outburst

Here are the top 10 prospects in the Complex leagues

@SamDykstraMiLB
May 7, 2024

The Rookie-level Arizona Complex and Florida Complex leagues began play last Saturday, a month earlier than they did a year ago. The changes mean that the circuits will be populated more by players making the jump from the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League the season before and less by guys coming

Never a doubt: Seager's late blast gives Rangers win over A's

@kennlandry
May 7, 2024

OAKLAND -- Corey Seager, a man of few words, was frank at the end of the Rangers’ most recent homestand when asked about his early season struggles: “I just think I’m not getting enough hits.” Simple, but effective. Rangers manager Bruce Bochy has allowed Seager to work through those struggles