Vicente Padilla

Colby Lewis: Another One of JD's Genius Moves

Sam MertenJon Daniels​Back on July 11, I spent a couple innings with Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels inside a luxury suite at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the team finished a lousy four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles. His team would lose that day and limped into the All-S ... More >>

Would-Be Owner Chuck Greenberg has the Money and Moxie to Lead the Texas Rangers Back to Relevancy and into the Playoffs

Tortured by His Bat for a Decade, Texas Finally Signs Rangers-Killer Vladimir Guerrero

The Texas Rangers, With A New Owner And A New Season, Prompt A New Emotion: Hope

Your Texas Rangers Have Money! And Vladimir Guerrero!!

​If you can't beat 'em, sign 'em? For years Vladimir Guerrero tormented the Texas Rangers. Now, in a sign that new owner Chuck Greenberg has money and moxy and motivation, the Rangers will this week sign the free-agent slugger to a one-year contract. While Tom Hicks, Jr. has some fun wit ... More >>

Texas Rangers Fans Can Again Dream Of A Merry Baseball, With The Departure Of Owner Tom Hicks

October = Baseball Bummer

​Seems like the Texas Rangers season ended months ago doesn't it? Don't look now, but the cool kids are still playing baseball. The League Championship Series start this week with Angels-Yankees and Dodgers-Phillies. According to national TV ratings, you're not looking at all - as Dallas/Fort ... More >>

Neftali Feliz is a fireballin’ pitching phenom who has brought the surprising Texas Rangers Christmas in September.

Whitt's End: 8.28.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Okay, let me snap off this Olive branch and extend it to the Christians this week. Peace? *Props to 103.3 FM ESPN Radio's Randy Galloway for landing the first in-depth interview with Texas Rangers ... More >>

Whitt's End: 8.14.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Lots of you asking for a breakdown of the latest Arbitron PPM radio ratings for July. Not worth a separate item these days because - yawn - The Ticket's dynasty just rolls on. Dunham & Miller ... More >>

Rangers 2, Angels 1

​How you get shut down by Gio Gonzalez and then light up John Lackey I'll never know, but your Texas Rangers deflected the dirt from their coffin in Anaheim this weekend. I still don't think they'll catch the Angels or make the playoffs, but taking two of three in Californ ... More >>

Angels 5, Faders 2

Time to switch sagas?The good news: The Texas Rangers got seven more hits and two more runs last night than they did on Sunday. The bad news: They suck. With a 5-2 loss to the Angels, the Rangers - who held a 5 1/2-game lead to start the month - are now 2 1/2 games in arrears as we stumble in ... More >>

Whitt's End: 6.26.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ventured down to the Mavs' draft last night and it was ... sad. Not the selection of Rodrigue Beaubois - though underwhleming - but more the lack of buzz. I remember when a much worse Mavs' orga ... More >>

Texas Rangers Have Given Their Fans Something to Cheer About, Entering June With The Second Best Record in Baseball.

See Ya, Padilla

This morning I wrote that you can never ever trust Vicente Padilla. Now, you won't have to. The Texas Rangers this afternoon requested outright waivers on the bean-balling, inconsistent, free-agent-to-be pitcher.

Yankees 35, Spankees 13

Trust him at your own peril.Guaranteed your Tuesday was better than the Texas Rangers. Josh Hamilton back on the disabled list. Another reminder why they can never ever trust Vicente Padilla. Allowed a 7-run inning to the Yankees, biggest against them all season. Even TV analyst Tom ... More >>

Are They Real or Fake?

When it comes to your Texas Rangers, we're about to find out. Starting tonight at Yankee Stadium, the Rangers play their next 13 games against baseball's best teams - New York, the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers. Each of those teams is at least five games ab ... More >>

Rangers Survive April, and The Aporkalypse

Dude is touching 57 on the gun today. Wow.Regardless the outcome of this afternoon's pitching duel between Vicente Padilla and Bobby Bragan, it's already - I'm sorry, I'm being told the Oakland pitcher is actually Dallas Braden - a successful April for the Texas Rangers. Not only has Texas no ... More >>

The Texas Strangers

Seriously, who are these guys? With generally the same cast of characters that has face-planted out of the gate the last two seasons, the Texas Rangers are off to a dream start. Granted 2-0 gets only a subtle nod in Boston or New York or Anaheim, but in Arlington it's cause to get Laura Mi ... More >>

New Park. Old Rangers?

Upgrades be damned, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is dwarfed in size and stature by Jonestown Coliseum.Went out and toured "new" Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion ... More >>

Bad Rangers' Pitching News and it's Only Friggin' January

From the same team that lost Adam Eaton in spring training 2006 just hours after general manager Jon Daniels announced his starting rotation comes news that top pitching prospect Eric Hurley has undergone rotator cuff surgery and is out for the 2009 season. In news that will surprise no one: Range ... More >>

Byrd Watching

Sure, the Rangers Are Fun and All. But There's Still Some Fixin' To Do.

Plan See

With blueprints A and B trashed, the Rangers have stumbled onto a visually stimulating development

Past the Halfway Mark, the Rangers Look Like Contenders and Pretenders

Can Nolan Ryan Save the Texas Rangers? Again?

Tom Hicks is Now a Global Billionaire Bozo

He's a vilified clown of an owner on two continents. Or at least he should be.

Seriously, Tom Hicks, Just Sell the Texas Rangers and Stop Pretending Like You Give a Damn

Rangers: The Texas Treadmills

Your Rangers yet again perfect the art of going nowhere fast

The Texas Rangers Provided Us With Yet Another Season in Hell

Boy Blunder

Is baseball's youngest general manager man enough to rebuild the Rangers?

Rangers Redux

Desperate for an assist from Dallas, the Rangers implement yet another rebuilding plan

Oh and 162?

Mood Swings

The Rangers' hitting coach is remarkable, resilient and really good at his job

Welcome Wagon

Play It Again, Sammy

Can the Rangers' oldest rookie leave his diva days behind and deliver?

So Here's To You, Mr. Robinson

Washington Monument

New Rangers manager injects hope and, yep, even optimism in Arlington

Danks For Nuthin'

Wake Me Up, Before You Zi-to

Déjà Boo

Another Rangers season ends in a familiar Hunt for Dead October

P.O.'d at T.O.