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  27. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  28. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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  32. <description><![CDATA[Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick [&#8230;]]]></description>
  33. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don&#8217;t even have time for the proverbial &#8220;cup of coffee&#8221;. I&#8217;ve done this for awhile now (2024 is the 17th season I&#8217;ve kept track of this), and it&#8217;s worked out pretty well. I&#8217;ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it&#8217;s become a permanent feature here.  If you&#8217;d like to see the final tallies for the other years I&#8217;ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.</p>
  34. <p>Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2024.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don&#8217;t play immediately (or sometimes don&#8217;t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:</p>
  35. <p>The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.</p>
  36. <p>Total players in 2023: 36<br />
  37. Total pitchers used in 2021: 19<br />
  38. Total position players used in 2021: 17<br />
  39. Total players making major league debut: 5</p>
  40. <ul>
  41. <li>#36 &#8211; Grant Anderson (Apr 24 &#8211; replacing Austin Pruitt (DL))</li>
  42. <li>#35 &#8211; Jonathan Hernandez (Apr 23 &#8211; replacing Owen White (AAA))</li>
  43. <li>#34 &#8211; Nathaniel Lowe (Apr 20 &#8211; replacing Jared Walsh (DFA))</li>
  44. <li>#33 &#8211; Sam Huff (Apr 20 &#8211; replacing Jonah Heim (bereavement list))</li>
  45. <li>#xx &#8211; Owen White (Apr 19 &#8211; replacing Jack Leiter (AAA)) &#8211; did not play)</li>
  46. <li>#32 &#8211; <strong>Jack Leiter</strong> (Apr 18 &#8211; replacing Grant Anderson (AAA))</li>
  47. <li>#31 &#8211; Michael Lorenzen (Apr 15 &#8211; replacing Yerry Rodriguez (AAA))</li>
  48. <li>#30 &#8211; <strong>Cole Winn</strong> (Apr 14 &#8211; replacing Cody Bradford (DL))</li>
  49. <li>#29 &#8211; Austin Pruitt (Apr 13 &#8211; replacing Brock Burke (DL))</li>
  50. <li>#28 &#8211; <strong>Davis Wendzel</strong> (Apr 8 &#8211; replacing Justin Foscue (DL))</li>
  51. <li>#27 &#8211; <strong>Justin Foscue</strong> (Apr 2 &#8211; replacing Josh Jung (DL))</li>
  52. </ul>
  53. <p>#26 to #1 (in surname alphabetical order): Cody Bradford, Brock Burke, Evan Carter, Dane Dunning, Ezequiel Duran, Nathan Eovaldi, Adolis Garcia, Jon Gray, Andrew Heaney, Jonah Heim, Travis Jankowski, Josh Jung, Andrew Knizner, <strong>Wyatt Langford</strong>, Jacob Latz, Jose LeClerc, David Robertson, Yerry Rodriguez, Josh Sborz, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Josh Smith, Leody Taveras, Jose Urena, Jared Walsh, Kirby Yates.</p>
  54. <p><strong>Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded</strong></p>
  55. <h3>Roster Notes:</h3>
  56. <ul>
  57. <li>Of the opening day 26 man roster, just one player is making their major league debut &#8211; Wyatt Langford.</li>
  58. <li>Of the opening day 26 man roster, 6 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Andrew Knizner, Jared Walsh, Wyatt Langford, David Robertson, Kirby Yates, Jose Urena).</li>
  59. <li>Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2023 (1 &#8211; Langford), 2022 (0), 2021  (2, Arihara, DeGeus), 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia &amp; Smokin&#8217; Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish &amp; Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).</li>
  60. <li>Players with &#8220;xx&#8221; in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn&#8217;t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).</li>
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  73. <title>Uniform Number Archives</title>
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  76. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  77. <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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  80.  
  81. <description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following me and my Texas Rangers fandom for any length of time, you should know that uniform numbers fascinate me.  I&#8217;m always looking up information on players, and it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been doing for awhile. Some Background: I grew up in Philadelphia, and when I was young, it was the era of [&#8230;]]]></description>
  82. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve been following me and my Texas Rangers fandom for any length of time, you should know that uniform numbers fascinate me.  I&#8217;m always looking up information on players, and it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been doing for awhile.</p>
  83. <h2><strong>Some Background:</strong></h2>
  84. <p>I grew up in Philadelphia, and when I was young, it was the era of Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, and Pete Rose.  To this day I can still recall their numbers without looking it up (32, 20, 14).  But it went further than that.  Unless they retired someone&#8217;s number, I would always think &#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s so and so&#8217;s old number&#8221;.   That mindset extended to when I moved to Texas in the early 90&#8217;s and because a fan of the Texas Rangers.</p>
  85. <p>Back in 2006, I happened upon <a href="https://amzn.to/42EVonS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this book</a>, which was a list of uniform numbers for every team.  It was a goldmine!  Yeah, the internet was around at this point, but things like Baseball Reference were not.  This was an awesome book, I picked it up, and used the data on the Rangers as a starting point to launch uniform number history on my website.  Back then it was far more spartan than what I have now, but I&#8217;ve spent over a decade working the numbers now.<span id="more-19877"></span></p>
  86. <p>Over that time, I got some notoriety over my research with Rangers uniform numbers.  The first person to say something about it was Victor Rojas when he was here as a radio broadcaster.  I wish I kept those old emails, but I don&#8217;t have them anymore.  Vic gushed about my research, which was most kind.  However, as time went on, I got noticed by Eric Nadel, who has name dropped me on radio broadcasts a few times as having done a ton of research. Then there was TR Sullivan who <a href="https://twitter.com/Sullivan_Ranger/status/1083120647088324614" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> about my number archive a few times, but then in <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/best-rangers-players-by-uniform-number" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his final article</a> for MLB.com before he retired, he threw me a lot of love (the article was about uniform numbers).</p>
  87. <figure id="attachment_19884" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-19884" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-scaled.jpeg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-19884" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-scaled.jpeg" alt="" width="650" height="274" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-300x126.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-1024x432.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-768x324.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-1536x647.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2593-2048x863.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-19884" class="wp-caption-text">Every Texas Rangers media guide from 1972 &#8211; 2023.</figcaption></figure>
  88. <h2><strong>Forward to now:</strong></h2>
  89. <p>So a few months back, I was making a pass, as I noticed a few things that needed massaging, and I was about 1/4 of the way through the pages, and then I had a brilliant idea.  One of the things I always wanted to do was make a full pass on the entire history of the club.  The problem with that is that I needed source material.  I had all the media guides from 1972-2023, and that&#8217;s what I was working through.  But then I ran into a fan (hi Tim!) who had spring training media guides for all the Washington Senators years (1961-1971), so that was a great help.</p>
  90. <p>The problem with this is that the media guides only show you what the uniform numbers are during spring training.  They&#8217;re printed during then, so anything that happens DURING the season was more of a question.  This became more of a thing the further back in time I went.  I&#8217;ve been keeping track of the changes in the last 15 years or so on my site, so I was pretty confident on those.  But I&#8217;m never foolish enough to think I&#8217;m 100% accurate, so that&#8217;s when I had the idea to check out every player.</p>
  91. <p>But that brings me back to the brilliant idea.  It occurred to me that if I cross reference the data I already had with the 63 years of media guides with what Baseball Reference had, I can make my dream a reality.  That&#8217;s because Baseball reference has &#8220;game logs&#8221; &#8211; which show you every single game that a player has played and on what date.  For example, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=rodriiv01&amp;t=b&amp;year=1998" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click this</a> &#8211; it will show you all the games that Pudge played in 1998.  This became particularly useful the further back I went in time, because it would show you guys who were up for a very few (or one) game.  This was the breakthrough.  Coupling the media guides with my own data, and BBR&#8217;s data I was able to find what I wanted (mostly).</p>
  92. <p>So in this past week I completed a project that took well over a year (due to various health issues in-between) &#8211; I went and looked at every year of the franchise, from 1961 through 2023, and examined EVERY SINGLE STINKIN PLAYER against these three sources, and I&#8217;m pretty confident I have a comprehensive pile of data on the entire roster history of the franchise.  It was really weird when I clicked publish on the last page.  It was the end of a long trail.</p>
  93. <p>One of my favorite compliments about this research is that I did find a few errors in Baseball Reference&#8217;s data.  Things I could prove.  For example there was a player that I could prove was wearing a number that BBR did not have &#8211; the evidence was that I found a complete game on Youtube for that date showing what I said was wright.  BBR took it onboard and updated their data based on what I sent.  This happened a couple of times in my research.</p>
  94. <p>Anyway, <a href="/uniformnumbers">take a look at the archive</a>.  I spent a lot of time digging into everyone and coming up with the history of the players.  I&#8217;m quite proud of what I&#8217;ve done here.</p>
  95. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-scaled.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-19916 size-large" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_0189-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
  96. <h2><strong>Still to do:</strong></h2>
  97. <p>Despite making a complete run through all the players, there&#8217;s still things for me to do.  There&#8217;s a few major bullet points that I still need to research.  Like:</p>
  98. <ol>
  99. <li><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stanky_manager.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-19888" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stanky_manager-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stanky_manager-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stanky_manager-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stanky_manager-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stanky_manager.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Oddities.  Things like Eddie Stanky.  He managed the team for one day (22 Jun 1977), and I can&#8217;t find his uniform number.  The only way I can think of would be to find a program from that EXACT date.  There&#8217;s only one picture I&#8217;ve seen of him &#8211; it&#8217;s in his manager&#8217;s office, but the #44 in that picture was the number on a locker, which likely was not his, as Luccesi was fired the same day Stanky managed his one game.</li>
  100. <li>Cup of Coffee guys.  There&#8217;s quite a few players over history who get called up, ride the bench for a few days, and then disappear, never to return.  The problem with guys like that is that since they didn&#8217;t technically PLAY, they&#8217;re not in the baseball reference archives.  You have to have at least one game played to be in there, and guys like that don&#8217;t show.  The most recent example of this is Matt Bush.  In 2023, he was called up on Sep 30th.  Was on the roster through the end of the season, but didn&#8217;t pitch so he doesn&#8217;t show as an active player for the Rangers in 2023 on BBR.  I have several of these guys on my pages, but that&#8217;s because I have been paying attention.  Guys who did that in years gone by will be impossible to find, without having access to the team&#8217;s master archives of transactions and player information.  Something I&#8217;m unlikely to get access to, I&#8217;d imagine.  I list guys like that on my pages as &#8220;dnp&#8221; (for did not play).</li>
  101. <li>Conflicts.  As good as my info is (as well as BBR), it&#8217;s not infallible.  All told, I found 27 conflicts that I can&#8217;t figure out on my own via some deep dive or something.  The problem with conflicts is basically I need some data that can resolve the conflict one way or the other.  I can think of two ways to resolve this (barring something odd like running to the actual player themselves who might remember).  These two are the aforementioned master archive of the Rangers player history.  The other would be programs. I have a handful of older programs, but not a lot of them.  Especially in the years prior to me moving here.  If you&#8217;re still reading this, that&#8217;s where you could come in.  Below I have posted the full list of conflicts that I can&#8217;t figure out.  There&#8217;s 27 of them.  Given how many players and how many years I&#8217;ve gone through, that the list is just 27 is pretty darned good, actually.</li>
  102. </ol>
  103. <h2><strong>Summary:</strong></h2>
  104. <p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been working on for the past year and a half or so on my site here.   A complete refresh of every uniform number over ever year of the franchise.  A metric ton of data to go through, but I&#8217;ve finished it.  It was a lot of fun, and as my wife said &#8220;the kind of project that&#8217;s right up your alley&#8221;.</p>
  105. <p>However, you could help me.  Take a look at the conflicts below, and the affected dates.  If you have any programs from these dates, I want to hear from you.  Specifically I want to see the page that has the roster for the game, and the exact date of the program.  That would help enormously.</p>
  106. <p>John Blake, the VP of the Rangers has said that he&#8217;s willing to help me, but he is a busy man.  I want to whittle down the list of conflicts before I hit him up as what I&#8217;m asking will be a big ask of someone there (I doubt Blake himself would go trawling through the archives for me).</p>
  107. <p>Thanks for reading, and <a href="/uniformnumbers">check out the pages</a>.  I had a ton of fun putting it together, and I&#8217;ve had a few people also curse me out saying it was super easy to get lost in here, just awash in memories of players gone by.</p>
  108. <p>&#8212; Joe</p>
  109. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19914" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring-1024x341.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="341" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring-300x100.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring-768x256.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/numbersspring-2048x682.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
  110. <h2><strong>Conflicts:</strong></h2>
  111. <p>Here is my list of conflicts.  They&#8217;re mostly conflicts (two people wearing same number at the same time).  But a couple of them are unknown dates (like so and so switched from 15 to 14, but on an unknown date).  If they&#8217;re on this list, you should assume I can&#8217;t resolve the conflict I mention for each.  If you can help (with verifiable proof) with any of these, <a href="/contactme">get in touch</a>.  Tkx.</p>
  112. <ol>
  113. <li>?? (1977) &#8211; What number did Eddie Stanky wear?</li>
  114. <li><a href="/3">#3</a> (1986) &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sierrru01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruben Sierra</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownje01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerry Browne</a> are both shown to be wearing #3 in Sep 1986.  Sierra wore 3 the entire season as far as I can tell.  I cannot explain why Baseball reference also has him wearing #47 in season, as I can find no reference to that.  I also cannot resolve the conflict of Jerry Browne wearing #3 in Sep 1986.  Could he have worn 47 instead?</li>
  115. <li><a href="/6">#6</a> (1968) &#8211; Have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/culleti01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Cullen</a> wearing 6 from Aug 2 &#8211; Sep 29, and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/billidi01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dick Billings</a> from Sep 11 &#8211; 29.</li>
  116. <li><a href="/7">#7</a> (1965) &#8211; Have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamlike01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Hamlin</a> wearing it entire season.  Conflict is <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cottich01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Cottier</a> wearing it from Sep 1 &#8211; 15.</li>
  117. <li><a href="/9">#9</a> (1982) &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/parrila01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Parrish</a> switched from 9 to 15, but on an unknown date.</li>
  118. <li><a href="/10">#10</a> (1984) &#8211; Have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/yostne01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ned Yost</a> wearing it all year, but also <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bucklke01.shtml">Kevin Buckley</a> from Sep 4 &#8211; 25.  (Buckley also had #10 in Spring 1985.</li>
  119. <li><a href="/14">#14</a> (1972) &#8211; Have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/masonji01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Mason</a> wearing 14 in Spring Training, then from Jul 27 &#8211; Oct 4 (end), but I also have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesda03.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dalton Jones</a> wearing it from Jun 2 &#8211; Oct 4.  I also have a note of Mason wearing #2 in 1972, but no note as to when.  As a side note, I have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/randlle01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenny Randle</a> wearing #2 until Jul 23.  It’s possible Mason wore #2 when he came up in late July, but I can’t prove it.</li>
  120. <li><a href="/15">#15</a> (1971) &#8211; Have both <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/raglato01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Ragland</a> and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nelsoda01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Nelson</a> wearing #15 from Sep 24 &#8211; 30.  Nelson moves to #1 as he had that in 72?</li>
  121. <li><a href="/18">#18</a> (1966) &#8211; Have both <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/humphbo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Humphreys</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/linesdi01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dick Lines</a> wearing #18 the entire season, although I also show Humphreys wearing #23, but no idea on date of change.</li>
  122. <li><a href="/18">#18</a> (1975) &#8211; Clyde Wright &#8211; shows 18 from st through Sep 26, but also shows wearing #38 at some undetermined time at BBR.  However, Stan Perzanowski &#8211; shows 18 from Jul 25 &#8211; Sep 28 and into 1976, so this was probably his number.  But when I look at #38, Tom Robson &#8211; Shows #38 from Jul 17 &#8211; Sep 18.  This conflicts with the note from earlier that shows Clyde Wright with #38 in 1975.  UPDATE: I found a program from 20 Jul 1975 that shows Wright wearing 38.  It gets more confusing when I found programs showing Mike Kekich wearing #18 from Jun 4- Sep 26</li>
  123. <li><a href="/20">#20</a> (1970) &#8211; Have Joe Coleman wearing #20 all season, but also Jeff Burroughs from Jul 20 &#8211; 30.</li>
  124. <li><a href="/20">#20</a> (1992) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinje02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Robinson</a> wearing #20 until Jun 4, but also <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcginru01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russ McGinnis</a> wearing it from Jun 3 &#8211; 25.  Cannot resolve the Jun 3 &amp; 4 conflict there.</li>
  125. <li><a href="/29">#29</a> (1961) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stillro01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Stillwell</a> wearing 29 on Sep 17, but that conflicts with <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsbo02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Johnson</a> who wore it from Jul 19 through end of season.</li>
  126. <li><a href="/29">#29</a> (1985) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guzmajo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose Guzman</a> wearing 29 &amp; 23 on his Sep 10 &#8211; Oct 1 dates, but can’t break it down. Problem is that <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willima03.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Williams</a> is also shown wearing 29 from Sep 10 &#8211; Oct 5.</li>
  127. <li><a href="/29">#29</a> (1986) &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/incavpe01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Incaviglia</a> is shown to have started the season wearing #5. At some point he switched to #29, but I’m unable to determine an exact date. I *THINK* it’s Jun 23rd, but I’m not positive.</li>
  128. <li><a href="/32">#32</a> (1991) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schirca01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Calvin Schiraldi</a> wearing 32 in 3 games on Jun 21, 28, &amp; Jul 3. However, I also have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mathete01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terry Mathews</a> wearing 32 starting on Jun 21 as well.</li>
  129. <li><a href="/33">#33</a> (1980) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kainedo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Kainer</a> wearing 33 &amp; 43 from Sep 6 &#8211; Oct 5.  However, I can’t figure out which games he wore which number. NOTE: Only four games total between those dates. I also show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/medicdo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doc Medich</a> wearing 33 the entire season, too.</li>
  130. <li><a href="/34">#34</a> (1968) &#8211; I have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/valenfr01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fred Valentine</a> wearing 34 until Jun 14, but also <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesst01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Jones</a> from May 15-19.</li>
  131. <li><a href="/34">#34</a> (1976) &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brilene01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nelson Briles</a> wore both 34 &amp; 23 in 1976.  I can’t find out dates for either.  He did end the season with 34, tho &#8211; as he wore it in 1977 as well.</li>
  132. <li><a href="/35">#35</a> (1968) &#8211; I have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bowensa01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Bowens</a> wearing 35 until Jul 16, but also <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/allenha02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hank Allen</a> from Apr 18 &#8211; Sep 29.</li>
  133. <li><a href="/41">#41</a> (2001) &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/caminke01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Caminiti</a> started the season with #41 and switched to #11, but on an unknown date</li>
  134. <li><a href="/46">#46</a> (1980) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/babcobo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Babcock</a> wearing 46 from May 26 &#8211; Sep 24), however BBR says he also wore #20, but I can find no dates for either of these.  <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/staubru01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rusty Staub</a> wore #20 the entire season in 1980 as well, so, is BBR’s reference to 20 for Babcock an error?  It seems to be, as I only have Babcock wearing #20 in spring for 1980.</li>
  135. <li><a href="/48">#48</a> (1985) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stewada01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Stewart</a> wearing 48 until Sep 12, but BBR also says he wore 43, but I can’t find any dates or info on that.  Both numbers don’t show anyone else wearing in season, so ???</li>
  136. <li><a href="/51">#51</a> (2015) &#8211; I show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ohlenro01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ross Ohlendorf</a> wearing #51 from May 17 &#8211; Jun 3, and again from Sep 1 &#8211; Oct 3. However, BBR also says he wore 25 this season, but gives no dates.  I also show <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodriwa01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wandy Rodriguez</a> wearing both 51 &amp; 25 this season &#8211; no dates.  Fun to mix in &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/napolmi01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Napoli</a> also wears 25.</li>
  137. <li><a href="/56">#56</a> (1973) &#8211; I have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/merriji01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Merritt</a> wearing 56 during the season, but BBR says #16, and I can’t find any other reference to that. That would also conflict with <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shellji01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Shellenback</a>, who wore 16 in Sep 1973.</li>
  138. <li><a href="/56">#56</a> (1996) &#8211; Have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/patteda04.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danny Patterson</a> wearing 56 in spring as well as Jul 26 &#8211; Aug 2 &amp; Sep 18 &#8211; 27.  However BBR also has him wearing 46, but I can’t find a reference to that.  Perhaps Sep 18 &#8211; 27?</li>
  139. <li><a href="/61">#61</a> (1994) &#8211; Have <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hurstja01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Hurst</a> wearing 61 from Apr 4 to May 22.  BBR also says he wore 25, but I don’t have any info as to what dates these things were.</li>
  140. </ol>
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  148. <title>How Many in 2023?</title>
  149. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2023/09/how-many-in-2023/</link>
  151. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  152. <pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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  156. <description><![CDATA[Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick [&#8230;]]]></description>
  157. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don&#8217;t even have time for the proverbial &#8220;cup of coffee&#8221;. I&#8217;ve done this for awhile now (2023 will be the 16th season I&#8217;ve kept track of this), and it&#8217;s worked out pretty well. I&#8217;ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it&#8217;s become a permanent feature here.  If you&#8217;d like to see the final tallies for the other years I&#8217;ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.</p>
  158. <p>Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2022.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don&#8217;t play immediately (or sometimes don&#8217;t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:</p>
  159. <p>The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.</p>
  160. <p>Total players in 2023: 45<br />
  161. Total pitchers used in 2021: 26<br />
  162. Total position players used in 2021: 19<br />
  163. Total players making major league debut: 5</p>
  164. <ul>
  165. <li>#45x &#8211; Matt Bush (Sep 30 &#8211; replacing Alex Speas (DFA)) &#8211; Bush Did not pitch</li>
  166. <li>#45 &#8211; Jake Latz (Sep 16 &#8211; replacing Ian Kennedy (DL))</li>
  167. <li>#44 &#8211; <strong>Evan Carter</strong> (Sep 8 &#8211; replacing Adolis Garcia (DL))</li>
  168. <li>#43 &#8211; <strong>Jonathan Ornelas</strong> (Aug 7 &#8211; replacing Josh Jung (DL))</li>
  169. <li>#42 &#8211; Austin Hedges (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing Bubba Thompson (optioned to AAA))</li>
  170. <li>#41 &#8211; Max Scherzer (Aug 1 &#8211; replacing Spencer Howard (traded to NYY))</li>
  171. <li>#40 &#8211; Jordan Montgomery (Aug 1 &#8211; replacing Cody Bradford (optioned to AAA))</li>
  172. <li>#39 &#8211; Chris Stratton (Aug 1 &#8211; replacing Yerry Rodriguez (optioned to AAA))</li>
  173. <li>#38 &#8211; <strong>Alex Speas</strong> (Jul 19 &#8211; replacing Taylor Hearn (DFA))</li>
  174. <li>#37 &#8211; Aroldis Chapman (Jul 1 &#8211; replacing Yerry Rodríguez (optioned to AAA)</li>
  175. <li>#36 &#8211; Glenn Otto (Jun 30, replacing John King (optioned to AAA))</li>
  176. <li>#35 &#8211; <strong>Owen White</strong> (Jun 13 &#8211; replacing Cole Ragans (optioned to AAA))</li>
  177. <li>#34 &#8211; <strong>Grant Anderson</strong> (May 29 &#8211; replacing Cody Bradford (optioned to AAA))</li>
  178. <li>#33 &#8211; Joe Barlow (May 16 &#8211; replacing Cody Bradford (optioned to AAA))</li>
  179. <li>#32 &#8211; Cody Bradford (May 15 &#8211; replacing Yerry Rodriguez (optioned to AAA))</li>
  180. <li>#31 &#8211; Sam Huff (May 9 &#8211; replacing Travis Jankowski (DL))</li>
  181. <li>#30 &#8211; Yerry Rodriguez (Apr 29 &#8211; replacing Jacob DeGrom (DL))</li>
  182. <li>#29 &#8211; Josh Sborz (Apr 14 &#8211; replacing Taylor Hearn (optioned to AAA))</li>
  183. <li>#28 &#8211; Leody Taveras (Apr 12 &#8211; replacing Corey Seager (DL))</li>
  184. <li>#27 &#8211; Sandy Leon (Apr 10 &#8211; replacing Mitch Garver (DL))</li>
  185. </ul>
  186. <p>#26 to #1 (in no particular order): Mitch Garver, Jonah Heim, Nathaniel Lowe, Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Josh Jung, Adolis Garcia, Robbie Grossman, Bubba Thompson, Travis Jankowski, Brad Miller, Josh Smith, Ezequiel Duran, Jacob DeGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Jon Gray, Martin Perez, Andrew Heaney, Dane Dunning, Taylor Hearn, Jonathan Hernandez, Jose LeClerc, Brock Burke, Will Smith, Cole Ragans, Ian Kennedy.</p>
  187. <p><strong>Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded</strong></p>
  188. <h3>Roster Notes:</h3>
  189. <ul>
  190. <li>Of the opening day 26 man roster, nobody is making their major league debut. That&#8217;s two years in a row now.</li>
  191. <li>Of the opening day 26 man roster, 6 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Robbie Grossman, Travis Jankowski, Jacob DeGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Andrew Heaney, Will Smith).</li>
  192. <li>Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2022 (0), 2021  (2, Arihara, DeGeus), 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia &amp; Smokin&#8217; Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish &amp; Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).</li>
  193. <li>Players with &#8220;xx&#8221; in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn&#8217;t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).</li>
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  220. <title>2023 Uniform Numbers</title>
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  223. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  224. <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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  228. <description><![CDATA[Today is 15 Feb 2023, and today is the day that pitchers &#38; catchers reported in Surprise for the 2023 Texas Rangers season.   It&#8217;s not quite as exciting as opening day, but still a very important day &#8211; the first &#8220;official&#8221; day of Spring Training.  As such, the new roster is out with everyone&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
  229. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is 15 Feb 2023, and today is the day that pitchers &amp; catchers reported in Surprise for the 2023 Texas Rangers season.   It&#8217;s not quite as exciting as opening day, but still a very important day &#8211; the first &#8220;official&#8221; day of Spring Training.  As such, the new roster is out with everyone&#8217;s uniform numbers, which means I spent a little time and updated all the roster pages on my site with the new year&#8217;s spring info.  As is my custom, I&#8217;m making a post here to mark this as well as a new notes and comments I noticed while editing all the pages here.</p>
  230. <p><a href="/uniformnumbers">Here&#8217;s a link to all the data</a>, but before that, a summary of what I learned doing the 2023 start of Spring Training data.</p>
  231. <p><span id="more-16772"></span></p>
  232. <h2>New Guys</h2>
  233. <p>Here&#8217;s some numbers for the major acquisitions during the offseason. not all of them are on field players&#8230;</p>
  234. <ul>
  235. <li>15 &#8211; Bruce Bochy</li>
  236. <li>17 &#8211; Nathan Eovaldi</li>
  237. <li>21 &#8211; Ian Kennedy</li>
  238. <li>23 &#8211; Jake Odorizzi</li>
  239. <li>31 &#8211; Mike Maddux (it&#8217;s his old number)</li>
  240. <li>48 &#8211; Jacob DeGrom</li>
  241. </ul>
  242. <p>There are a lot of guys who would qualify as &#8220;new guys&#8221;, but they&#8217;re of the minor league/spring training invite types.  I&#8217;m not adding all of those, as there&#8217;s quite a lot of them.  Also of note, Kumar Rocker will be in camp wearing #80.</p>
  243. <h2>Number Changes</h2>
  244. <p>Usually there&#8217;s a player who has been here for a bit who moves their number around, and this spring is no different here, although this year it seems there&#8217;s a lot more guys who are holding on to their numbers and doing less moving.</p>
  245. <ul>
  246. <li>Bubba Thompson goes from 65 to 8</li>
  247. <li>Ezequiel Duran goes from 70 to 20</li>
  248. <li>Mike Maddux reclaims his old 31, which forces&#8230;</li>
  249. <li>Spencer Howard moves from 31 to 36</li>
  250. </ul>
  251. <h2>Not Assigned</h2>
  252. <p>Some years ago when Zack Minasian was our clubhouse guy, I remember hearing him say in an interview somewhere that when a popular or long standing player leaves the team for whatever reason (FA signing, trade, retire) they generally did not give out that number for at least one full season afterwards (unless there&#8217;s some roster squeeze in the spring). That continues into 2023 with the following numbers not being assigned this spring when they were last season (well, mostly last season):</p>
  253. <ul>
  254. <li>1 &#8211; Elvis Andrus</li>
  255. <li>4 &#8211; Willie Calhoun</li>
  256. <li>19 &#8211; Dennis Santana</li>
  257. <li>40 &#8211; Greg Holland &amp; Steele Walker</li>
  258. <li>43 &#8211; Garrett Richards</li>
  259. <li>45 &#8211; Matt Moore</li>
  260. <li>57 &#8211; Nick Snyder</li>
  261. <li>61 &#8211; Spencer Patton</li>
  262. <li>63 &#8211; Jesus Tinoco</li>
  263. <li>65 &#8211; Bubba Thompson</li>
  264. </ul>
  265. <p>A few amusing observations from the not assigned group&#8230;</p>
  266. <ul>
  267. <li>For the first time since 1989, nobody starts the season wearing #4.  However, since it&#8217;s a primo number, I suspect someone will get it, either from being signed, or moving there in the final roster shuffle before the season starts for real.</li>
  268. <li>For the third year since he was gone, Elvis Andrus&#8217; #1 is still vacant.  He&#8217;s technically still a free agent right now, but there&#8217;s no spot for him here. Not advocating for him to return, but they&#8217;re still holding his number.</li>
  269. <li>#45 is vacant, last held by Matt Moore, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">who is still a free agent.  He could slot there quite nicely &#8211; he must be wanting an excessive amount of cash that NOBODY has picked him up yet.</span>  Nevermind. The Angels picked up Matt Moore on 16 Feb on a 1 year deal.</li>
  270. <li>Nobody is wearing #19, and Jurickson Profar is still a free agent, he could slot in there pretty easily. 19 is his hold number with the Rangers after all.</li>
  271. </ul>
  272. <h2>Longest Consecutive</h2>
  273. <p>Also as I do every year, I keep track of who has held their uniform number the longest.  Keep in mind this is not tenure with the team in general &#8211; just &#8220;tenure with their current uniform number&#8221;.</p>
  274. <p>The longest consecutively ACTIVE held uniform number going into this year is now a two way tie.  <strong>Jose LeClerc (25) &amp; Brett Martin (59)</strong> have all held their respective numbers now for five consecutive seasons going into 2023 (all of them starting at some point in the 2019 season).</p>
  275. <p>Just behind them are Taylor Hearn &amp; Adolis Garcia at 4 seasons, and behind them is a 9 way tie with 3 (Taveras / Heim / Lowe / Dunning / Burke / Otto / Huff / Sborz / Barlow).</p>
  276. <p>I should also mention Jonathan Hernandez, who wears #72.  He would have the record at 6 years as he&#8217;s worn that in parts of every season from 2018 onwards.  Problem is in the 2018 &amp; 2021 seasons, he never appeared in the majors, so I discounted him for that reason.</p>
  277. <p>Technically the longest held is Josh Frasier, the bullpen catcher, who has worn #66 since 2005, and assuming he&#8217;s here in 2023 (I haven&#8217;t officially gotten word of that yet) he would have worn it for 19 seasons.  I&#8217;m not counting Rangers Captain who has worn #72 since 2003.  Neither of these guys are proper rostered players or coaches, so they&#8217;re not being counted as longer than the guys above.</p>
  278. <h2>General Notes</h2>
  279. <ul>
  280. <li>Meibrys Viloria (#60) will be the best name to hear people mispronounce on the roster.</li>
  281. <li>#69 remains the only number never to be handed to anyone under any condition. ;)</li>
  282. </ul>
  283. <h2>Summary</h2>
  284. <p>There is one thing I was hoping fans could help me by contributing. If you’ve ever looked at <a href="/uniformnumbers">my uniform number history pages</a>, I’ve gathered over the years pictures of the various numbers being worn on players. I’ve posted some of them on the bottom of each number’s page as an “example” of that number. Check out the pages, and look at the bottom. I think it makes for a nice little archive of pictures. If you happen to have any that I do not, please drop me a line, I&#8217;d love to see them.</p>
  285. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16573" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/zonk2.jpg" alt="" width="664" height="960" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/zonk2.jpg 664w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/zonk2-208x300.jpg 208w" sizes="(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px" /></p>
  286. ]]></content:encoded>
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  291. <item>
  292. <title>Best Uniform Numbers</title>
  293. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/12/best-uniform-numbers/</link>
  295. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  296. <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
  297. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  298. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16623</guid>
  299.  
  300. <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time tracking Texas Rangers uniform numbers.  I&#8217;ve gotten some attention for it as well from people of note connected to the Rangers (such as Eric Nadel, Victor Rojas (both on air), &#38; TR Sullivan (online)).  I&#8217;m proud of that.  If you&#8217;ve never checked out my uniform number history section of [&#8230;]]]></description>
  301. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time tracking Texas Rangers uniform numbers.  I&#8217;ve gotten some attention for it as well from people of note connected to the Rangers (such as Eric Nadel, Victor Rojas (both on air), &amp; TR Sullivan (<a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/best-rangers-players-by-uniform-number" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online</a>)).  I&#8217;m proud of that.  If you&#8217;ve never checked out my uniform number history section of the website, <a href="/uniformnumbers">please do</a>.  As I said, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time on it, but if you have some info that I do not (with proof), I&#8217;d love to hear from you.</p>
  302. <p>But I seem to have developed a reputation as the &#8220;Uniform Number guy&#8221; for the Texas Rangers, because earlier today <a href="https://twitter.com/reclinernerd/status/1609191047573262338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Moore tweeted out</a> that I should do a list of &#8220;All time Rangers&#8221; for every uniform number.  I saw that tweet in the morning before breakfast, and dammit &#8211; I was out to breakfast with my wife this morning, and all I could think of was uniform numbers.  So thanks John.  ;)</p>
  303. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_1700.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-13790" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_1700-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_1700-300x199.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_1700.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Anyway, I decided to have a go this afternoon, and what I&#8217;ve done is go down all the uniform numbers and pick out the Rangers player that I think is the best at that number.  A few caveats about the research for the list first&#8230;<span id="more-16623"></span></p>
  304. <ol>
  305. <li>I&#8217;m doing players only, not coaches/managers. I don&#8217;t have a something I can point to and say why &#8211; it&#8217;s just what I want to do. Just wanted players only.</li>
  306. <li>I&#8217;m going with a number most associated with a player. For example, Mike Young wore #2 in his first year, but is known for #10. Likewise Rafael Palmeiro wore #3 his first year, then was known for #25.</li>
  307. <li>Texas Rangers only, not doing Washington Senators.</li>
  308. <li>The numbers I use will be in season only, Spring Training won&#8217;t factor into this.</li>
  309. </ol>
  310. <p>Another issue is the higher numbers.  Once you get above 60 you get numbers that have like one guy ever wearing it in season &#8211; so he gets it by default.. Above 70, and you start having numbers where nobody has ever worn the number in season.  Then finally it stops in the 80&#8217;s, as there were just a couple above 80.  I mean if I counted spring training I could cover it, but there was nobody in he 90&#8217;s in season, so it stops at #88, which is the highest number worn in season (oddly by two players).  I do recall Joe Beimel in 2015 intentionally wanted 97, but he didn&#8217;t make the team, which would have been the first in season 90+.  Anyway, here goes the list:</p>
  311. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2015_alcs.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-11495" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2015_alcs-1024x341.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="341" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2015_alcs-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2015_alcs-300x100.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2015_alcs-768x256.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2015_alcs.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
  312. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grieve_6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12940" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grieve_6-298x300.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="300" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grieve_6-298x300.jpg 298w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grieve_6-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grieve_6-768x772.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grieve_6.jpg 955w" sizes="(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px" /></a>00 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oliveal01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Oliver</a><br />
  313. 01 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/andruel01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elvis Andrus</a><br />
  314. 02 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/semiema01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcus Semien</a><br />
  315. 03 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Rodriguez</a><br />
  316. 04 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamilda02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darryl Hamilton</a><br />
  317. 05 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kinslia01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ian Kinsler</a><br />
  318. 06 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grievto01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Grieve</a><br />
  319. 07 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodriiv01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivan Rodriguez</a><br />
  320. 08 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daughja01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Daughterty</a><br />
  321. 09 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'bripe03.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete O&#8217;Brien</a><br />
  322. 10 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngmi02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Young</a><br />
  323. 11 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harrato01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toby Harrah</a><br />
  324. 12 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/odorro01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rougned Odor</a><br />
  325. 13 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gallojo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joey Gallo</a><br />
  326. 14 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/francju01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julio Franco</a><br />
  327. 15 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/parrila01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Parrish</a><br />
  328. 16 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palmede01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dean Palmer</a><br />
  329. 17 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cruzne02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nelson Cruz</a><br />
  330. <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/27_cat.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-13301" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/27_cat-193x300.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="300" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/27_cat-193x300.jpg 193w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/27_cat-660x1024.jpg 660w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/27_cat-768x1192.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/27_cat.jpg 870w" sizes="(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px" /></a>18 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morelmi01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitch Moreland</a><br />
  331. 19 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gonzaju03.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juan Gonzalez</a><br />
  332. 20 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burroje01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Burroughs</a><br />
  333. 21 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sierrru01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruben Sierra</a><br />
  334. 22 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clarkwi02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Clark</a><br />
  335. 23 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guzmajo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose Guzman</a><br />
  336. 24 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/goodwto01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Goodwin</a><br />
  337. 25 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palmera01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rafael Palmeiro</a><br />
  338. 26 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wrighge03.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Wright</a><br />
  339. 27 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/catalfr01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frank Catalanotto</a><br />
  340. 28 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oliveda02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darren Oliver</a><br />
  341. 29 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beltrad01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adrian Beltre</a><br />
  342. 30 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/felizne01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neftali Feliz</a><br />
  343. 31 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jenkife01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fergie Jenkins</a><br />
  344. 32 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/helliri01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rick Helling</a><br />
  345. 33 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millwke01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Millwood</a><br />
  346. 34 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ryanno01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nolan Ryan</a><br />
  347. <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-13383" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206-300x225.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_0206-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>35 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wettejo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Wetteland</a> (yeah, I know)<br />
  348. 36 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wittbo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bobby Witt</a><br />
  349. 37 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rogerke01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kenny Rogers</a><br />
  350. 38 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/glynnry01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan Glynn</a><br />
  351. 39 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/feldmsc01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Feldman</a><br />
  352. 40 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/russeje01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Russell</a><br />
  353. 41 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownke01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Brown</a><br />
  354. 42 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/medicdo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doc Medich</a> (Jackie didn&#8217;t play here)<br />
  355. 43 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/venafmi01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Venafro</a><br />
  356. 44 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/darwida01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danny Darwin</a><br />
  357. 45 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hollade01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Holland</a><br />
  358. 46 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rossro01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robbie Ross</a><br />
  359. 47 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reimeke01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Reimer</a><br />
  360. 48 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lewisco01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colby Lewis</a><br />
  361. 49 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/houghch01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlie Hough</a><br />
  362. 50 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/francfr01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frank Francisco</a><br />
  363. 51 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bushma01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Bush</a><br />
  364. <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/benoit53.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-13649" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/benoit53-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/benoit53-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/benoit53-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/benoit53.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>52 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vosbeed01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ed Vosberg</a><br />
  365. 53 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/benoijo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joaquin Benoit</a><br />
  366. 54 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harrima01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Harrison</a><br />
  367. 55 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/downibr01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Downing</a><br />
  368. 56 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/patteda04.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danny Patterson</a><br />
  369. 57 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nippedu01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dustin Nippert</a><br />
  370. 58 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shousbr01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Shouse</a><br />
  371. 59 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/z/zimmeje02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Zimmerman</a><br />
  372. 60 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/santaju01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julio Santana</a><br />
  373. 61 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chiriro01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robinson Chirinos</a><br />
  374. 62 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leclejo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose LeClerc</a><br />
  375. 63 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bassan01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Bass</a><br />
  376. 64 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/griffaj01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AJ Griffin</a><br />
  377. 65 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mendeyo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yohander Mendez</a><br />
  378. 66 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sborzjo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Sborz</a><br />
  379. 67 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/evansde01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Demarcus Evans</a><br />
  380. 68 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barlojo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Barlow</a><br />
  381. 69 &#8211; Nobody EVER assigned this<br />
  382. 70 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/duranez01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ezequiel Durán</a><br />
  383. 71 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/freemsa01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Freeman</a><br />
  384. 72 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hernajo02.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Hernández</a> (not using the mascot)<br />
  385. 73 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/codyky01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kyle Cody</a><br />
  386. <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/82_apostel.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-15709" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/82_apostel-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/82_apostel-300x168.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/82_apostel-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/82_apostel-768x429.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/82_apostel.jpg 1397w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>74 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/huffsa01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Huff</a> (I know he&#8217;s 55 now, but little options here)<br />
  387. 75 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/benjawe01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wes Benjamin</a><br />
  388. 76 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millety01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tyson Miller</a><br />
  389. 77 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/ibanean01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andy Ibanez</a><br />
  390. 78 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taverle01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leody Taveras</a> (again not a lot of options)<br />
  391. 79 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kingjo01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John King</a><br />
  392. 80 &#8211; Nobody wore 80 in season<br />
  393. 81 &#8211; Nobody wore 81 in season<br />
  394. 82 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/apostsh01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sherten Apostel</a><br />
  395. 83 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/terrycu01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Curtis Terry</a><br />
  396. 84 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fieldpr01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prince Fielder</a><br />
  397. 85 &#8211; Nobody wore 85 in season<br />
  398. 86 &#8211; Nobody wore 86 in season<br />
  399. 87 &#8211; Nobody wore 87 in season<br />
  400. 88 &#8211; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gonzare01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rene Gonzales</a></p>
  401. <p>Given there was nobody in season above 88, I&#8217;m stopping the list there.</p>
  402. <p>I suspect people will disagree with some (like #3), but that&#8217;s OK.  This not &#8220;the list&#8221;, it&#8217;s &#8220;my list&#8221;.  If you disagree, post a list of your own, but you&#8217;ll find out that some of the numbers are super hard to pick someone since there&#8217;s nobody that really stands out, and you have to pick from a bunch of middle of the line type players.</p>
  403. <p>Also, I know I didn&#8217;t use Ron Mahay in my list with the #32 picture I have on the page, but I love that picture a lot (I took it myself), so I wanted to get it in there.</p>
  404. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-13340" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-1024x579.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="579" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-300x170.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-768x434.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/635742425633864485-USP-MLB-HOUSTON-ASTROS-AT-TEXAS-RANGERS-74918294-2048x1157.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
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  410. <item>
  411. <title>Site Downtime</title>
  412. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/11/site-downtime/</link>
  413. <comments>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/11/site-downtime/#comments</comments>
  415. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  416. <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
  417. <category><![CDATA[Site Stuff]]></category>
  418. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16597</guid>
  419.  
  420. <description><![CDATA[Today was a nightmare.  I was up super early (right at 5AM &#8211; thanks bladder), but made a tactical error (insofar as sleep goes).  I looked at my phone.  I had a notification on Mastodon telling me that my personal blog story was unreachable with a 404 error.  OH NO!  I instantly was jerked awake, [&#8230;]]]></description>
  421. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today was a nightmare.  I was up super early (right at 5AM &#8211; thanks bladder), but made a tactical error (insofar as sleep goes).  I looked at my phone.  I had a notification on Mastodon telling me that my personal blog story was unreachable with a 404 error.  OH NO!  I instantly was jerked awake, and sprung to action (at 5AM).  Discovered that quite a lot of stuff was down.  Decided to write a story ab  out what happened (given that&#8217;s what I do), so if you want to read my horror story, check this out: <span id="more-16597"></span></p>
  422. <p>My web server has a total of 9 domains on it. Of the nine, sox of them were down.  I&#8217;ve had this happen before, usually rebooting the server will fix it. So I did that, and it didn&#8217;t fix it.  Uh-oh.  I dug into it deeper and discovered that two major problems had occurred.</p>
  423. <ol>
  424. <li>My server&#8217;s hard drive filled up</li>
  425. <li>The MySQL server crashed</li>
  426. </ol>
  427. <p>Both of which would prevent websites that used WordPress from working, as they require the MySQL database behind them to be running, and with the drive full and databases down, nothing would work.  Several of my sites were down.  No worries, I have backups for that.</p>
  428. <p>There are two kinds of backups made on my server daily.  The first is a full server backup, I get a tarball of each of the domains, the theory being I could restore the entire server from that.  In fact, in prior server issues, I&#8217;ve used these full server backups before.  It worked for the other domain names today &#8211; but not the Rangers site.  I keep a weeks&#8217; worth of this type of backup.  Problem is the three most recent backups (including today&#8217;s) were corrupt, they didn&#8217;t have a backup of the Rangers site (again, due to drive filling up).  That left four backups going back to a week ago.  I restored all of them.  NONE of them had the database.</p>
  429. <p>It sent me into a MAJOR panic, as without the database, my site was gone.  With no database, all the files on the server were pointless as this is all driven from WordPress. This Rangers site has been around since 1998, and while I don&#8217;t do the daily updates anymore, there&#8217;s a lot of archives here, and a few bits I still maintain.  I&#8217;m very proud of the uniform number coverage, so the very real possibility this morning of having lost all that work was seriously distressing to me.</p>
  430. <p>So OK, that brings me to the second kind of backup.  All my sites that use WordPress (of which this is one) do a nightly backup via a software plugin called <a href="https://ithemes.com/backupbuddy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BackupBuddy</a>. The problem is that BackupBuddy requires you to have database access to use it, and without that, I couldn&#8217;t use that backup, so I thought I was screwed since the other kind wasn&#8217;t working.  In this section of the recovery, I discovered that my root problem is that when my system filled up it was doing a sql dump, and it appears that the drive full situation while accessing SQL caused a mess which meant that most of my domain names that used databases lost their access to the data &#8211; even if it was still there.  I had to reset the passwords on everything, and then it let me clean up the right way.</p>
  431. <p>Fortunately this cleanup allowed me to reinstall my Rangers site from scratch.  I had to pretend WordPress was a virgin install &#8211; it basically reset the database.  Given my old WordPress install was actually still THERE, just unreferenced because of the new database, I was then able to restore from one of the existing BackupBuddy backups. It took some time to restore everything (as the tarball for my Rangers site is about 3.18 Gb).  But EVENTUALLY I got everything going.</p>
  432. <p>I didn&#8217;t declare everything restored until about 2:20PM on Monday afternoon, and I first discovered the problem right at 5AM.</p>
  433. <p>So now what?  I cleaned up all the mess, the drive is back to about 50% usage, which is where it normally lives with the week&#8217;s worth of backups there, but I need to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen again.  the full server backups I will be going to remote backups. I used to, but Dropbox decided some time ago to do away with their command line backup option.  I discovered today in fixing everything that the server maintenance software I use has an option to backup to Google Drive, something I will be signing up for.  Will cost me $75 a year to do that, but I think the cost is worth it for piece of mind.</p>
  434. <p>Bottom line is that everything is working here again.  It was all due to to me losing database access due to a drive filling up situation.  What a mess.  Serious stress bomb this morning too.  Normally I take my blood pressure every morning at home, my wife and I figured this was a good day to skip that today, there was no way I was going to get a good reading today. I will tonight now that everything&#8217;s running again.</p>
  435. <p>The moral of the story.  Don&#8217;t let a database heavy web server fill up.  All kinds of chaos ensues when it happens.</p>
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  443. <item>
  444. <title>How Many in 2022?</title>
  445. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/09/how-many-in-2022/</link>
  447. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  448. <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
  449. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  450. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16337</guid>
  451.  
  452. <description><![CDATA[Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick [&#8230;]]]></description>
  453. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don&#8217;t even have time for the proverbial &#8220;cup of coffee&#8221;. I&#8217;ve done this for awhile now (2022 will be the 15th season I&#8217;ve kept track of this), and it&#8217;s worked out pretty well. I&#8217;ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it&#8217;s become a permanent feature here.  If you&#8217;d like to see the final tallies for the other years I&#8217;ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.</p>
  454. <p>Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2022.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don&#8217;t play immediately (or sometimes don&#8217;t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:</p>
  455. <p>The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.</p>
  456. <p>Total players in 2022: 55<br />
  457. Total pitchers used in 2021: 29<br />
  458. Total position players used in 2021: 26<br />
  459. Total players making major league debut: 8</p>
  460. <ul>
  461. <li>#55 &#8211; Kevin Plawecki (Sep 21 &#8211; replacing Nick Solak (60 day DL))</li>
  462. <li>#54 &#8211; <strong>Josh Jung</strong> (Sep 9 &#8211; replacing Brad Miller (10 day DL))</li>
  463. <li>#53 &#8211; Dallas Keuchel (Aug 27 &#8211; replacing Cole Ragans (10 day DL))</li>
  464. <li>#52 &#8211; Mark Mathias (Aug 16 &#8211; replacing Elier Hernandez (DFA))</li>
  465. <li>#51 &#8211; Kohei Arihara (Aug 16 &#8211; replacing Yerry Rodriguez (optioned to AAA))</li>
  466. <li>#50 &#8211; <strong>Yerry Rodriguez</strong> (Aug 14 &#8211; replacing Matt Moore (Paternity List))</li>
  467. <li>#49 &#8211; <strong>Bubba Thompson</strong> (Aug 4 &#8211; replacing Kole Calhoun (10 day DL))</li>
  468. <li>#48 &#8211; <strong>Cole Ragans</strong> (Aug 4 &#8211; replacing Dennis Santana (10 day DL))</li>
  469. <li>#47 &#8211; Jonathan Hernandez (Jul 16 &#8211; replacing AJ Alexy (optioned to AAA))</li>
  470. <li>#46 &#8211; AJ Alexy (Jul 15 &#8211; replacing Kolby Allard (optioned to AAA))</li>
  471. <li>#45 &#8211; <strong>Elier Hernandez</strong> (Jul 14 &#8211; replacing Steven Duggar (optioned to AAA))</li>
  472. <li>#44 &#8211; Steven Duggar (Jun 26 &#8211; replacing Ezequiel Duran (optioned to AAA))</li>
  473. <li>#43 &#8211; Meibrys Viloria (Jun 21 &#8211; replacing Sam Huff (optioned to AAA))</li>
  474. <li>#42 &#8211; Jose LeClerc (Jun 16 &#8211; replacing Kolby Allard (optioned to AAA))</li>
  475. <li>#41 &#8211; Leody Taveras (Jun 13 &#8211; replacing Eli White (10 day DL))</li>
  476. <li>#40 &#8211; Jesus Tinoco (Jun 10 &#8211; replacing Glenn Otto (Covid DL))</li>
  477. <li>#39 &#8211; Tyson Miller (Jun 10 &#8211; replacing Mitch Garver (Covid DL))</li>
  478. <li>#38 &#8211; <strong>Steele Walker</strong> (Jun 5 &#8211; replacing Willie Calhoun (DFA))</li>
  479. <li>#37 &#8211; <strong>Ezequiel Duran</strong> (Jun 4 &#8211; replacing Josh Smith (10 day DL))</li>
  480. <li>#36 &#8211; <strong>Josh Smith</strong> (May 30 &#8211; replacing Brad Miller (10 day DL))</li>
  481. <li>#35 &#8211; Zach Reks (Apr 30 &#8211; replacing Spencer Howard (optioned to AAA))</li>
  482. <li>#34 &#8211; Sam Huff (Apr 28 &#8211; replacing Jonah Heim (paternity list))</li>
  483. <li>#33 &#8211; Glenn Otto (Apr 22 &#8211; replacing Jon Gray (10 day DL))</li>
  484. <li>#32 &#8211; Matt Moore (Apr 16 &#8211; replacing Josh Sborz (10 day DL))</li>
  485. <li>#31 &#8211; Nick Snyder (Apr 14 &#8211; replacing Dennis Santana (Covid DL))</li>
  486. <li>#30 &#8211; Garrett Richards (Apr 14 &#8211; replacing Spencer Howard (10 day DL))</li>
  487. <li>#29 &#8211; Spencer Patton (Apr 9 &#8211; replacing Jon Gray (10 day DL))</li>
  488. </ul>
  489. <p>#28 to #1 (in alphabetical order): Albert Abreu, Kolby Allard, Joe Barlow, Brock Burke, Matt Bush, Kole Calhoun, Willie Calhoun, Charlie Culberson, Dane Dunning, Adolis Garcia, Mitch Garver, Jon Gray, Taylor Hearn, Jonan Heim, Greg Holland, Spencer Howard, Andy Ibanez, John King, Nate Lowe, Brett Martin, Brad Miller, Martin Perez, Dennis Santana, Josh Sborz, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Nick Solak, Eli White.</p>
  490. <p><strong>Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded</strong></p>
  491. <h3>Roster Notes:</h3>
  492. <ul>
  493. <li>2022 starts with a 28 man opening day roster, as a concession to the compressed spring training that resulted from the lockout.  That goes back to 26 on May 1.</li>
  494. <li>Of the opening day 28 man roster, nobody is making their major league debut. That hasn&#8217;t happened since 2010.</li>
  495. <li>Of the opening day 28 man roster, 8 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Abreu, Calhoun K, Garber, Gray, Holland, Miller, Seager, Semien)</li>
  496. <li>Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2021 2 (Arihara, DeGeus), 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia &amp; Smokin&#8217; Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish &amp; Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).</li>
  497. <li>Players with &#8220;xx&#8221; in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn&#8217;t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).</li>
  498. </ul>
  499. <p><strong>Old Versions of this Page:</strong></p>
  500. <p style="padding-left: 30px;">[ <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2008/09/how_many_in_2008/">2008</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2009/09/how_many_in_2009/">2009</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2010/10/how_many_in_2010/">2010</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2011/09/how_many_in_2011/">2011</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2012/09/how-many-in-2012/">2012</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2013/09/how-many-in-2013/">2013</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2014/09/how-many-in-2014/">2014</a> ]<br />
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  508. <title>Texas Rangers Game 1 Starters</title>
  509. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/03/texas-rangers-game-1-starters/</link>
  511. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  512. <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
  513. <category><![CDATA[Rangers News]]></category>
  514. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16310</guid>
  515.  
  516. <description><![CDATA[The Texas Rangers have announced their opening day starter. It&#8217;ll be Jon Grey on Apr 8 in Toronto. That continues the current streak of opening day starters not repeating. The last time we had two years in a row with the same starter was 2009, when Kevin Millwood started for the fourth year in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
  517. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Texas Rangers <a href="https://twitter.com/Rangers/status/1508859343847972869" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have announced</a> their opening day starter. It&#8217;ll be <a href="https://www.mlb.com/player/jon-gray-592351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jon Grey</a> on Apr 8 in Toronto.</p>
  518. <p>That continues the current streak of opening day starters not repeating. The last time we had two years in a row with the same starter was 2009, when Kevin Millwood started for the fourth year in a row. Since that, every one has been different.</p>
  519. <p>Here are the current record holders for consecutive Game 1 starts in Texas Rangers history.</p>
  520. <p><strong>Consecutive Game 1 Starts:</strong></p>
  521. <ul>
  522. <li>Kevin Millwood &#8211; 4 (06-09)</li>
  523. <li>Charlie Hough &#8211; 4 (86-89)</li>
  524. <li>Nolan Ryan &#8211; 3 (90-92)</li>
  525. <li>Ken Hill &#8211; 2 (96-97)</li>
  526. <li>Jon Matlack &#8211; 2 (80-81)</li>
  527. <li>Dick Bosman &#8211; 2 (72-73, if you count Senators, it would be 4 as he did 70-71 as well)</li>
  528. </ul>
  529. <p>&#8230; and the overall / non consecutive game 1 starter record is Charlie Hough who did it six times, between 1982 and 1989.  Behind him are Kevin Millwood with 4, and Nolan Ryan with 3.</p>
  530. <p><strong>Complete History</strong></p>
  531. <p><span id="more-16310"></span></p>
  532. <p>Here is every Game 1 starter in Texas Rangers history.  I did not include the Washington Senators years.  If I had, Dick Bosman would be higher on the consecutive list, as he started the first game every year from 1970 through 1973.</p>
  533. <p>Note: These are not the home opener starters, but the Game 1/opening day starter on the first overall game of the season.</p>
  534. <p><strong>Globe Life Field era:</strong></p>
  535. <ul>
  536. <li>2022: Jon Gray</li>
  537. <li>2021: Kyle Gibson</li>
  538. <li>2020: Lance Lynn</li>
  539. </ul>
  540. <p><strong>The Ballpark in Arlington era:</strong></p>
  541. <ul>
  542. <li>2019: Mike Minor</li>
  543. <li>2018: Cole Hamels</li>
  544. <li>2017: Yu Darvish</li>
  545. <li>2016: Cole Hamels</li>
  546. <li>2015: Yovani Gallardo</li>
  547. <li>2014: Tanner Scheppers</li>
  548. <li>2013: Matt Harrison</li>
  549. <li>2012: Colby Lewis</li>
  550. <li>2011: CJ Wilson</li>
  551. <li>2010: Scott Feldman</li>
  552. <li>2009: Kevin Milwood</li>
  553. <li>2008: Kevin Millwood</li>
  554. <li>2007: Kevin Millwood</li>
  555. <li>2006: Kevin Millwood</li>
  556. <li>2005: Ryan Drese</li>
  557. <li>2004: Kenny Rogers</li>
  558. <li>2003: Ismael Valdez</li>
  559. <li>2002: Chan Ho Park</li>
  560. <li>2001: Rick Helling</li>
  561. <li>2000: Kenny Rogers</li>
  562. <li>1999: Rick Helling</li>
  563. <li>1998: John Burkett</li>
  564. <li>1997: Ken Hill</li>
  565. <li>1996: Ken Hill</li>
  566. <li>1995: Kenny Rogers</li>
  567. <li>1994: Kevin Brown</li>
  568. </ul>
  569. <p><strong>Arlington Stadium era:</strong></p>
  570. <ul>
  571. <li>1993: Craig Lefferts</li>
  572. <li>1992: Nolan Ryan</li>
  573. <li>1991: Nolan Ryan</li>
  574. <li>1990: Nolan Ryan</li>
  575. <li>1989: Charlie Hough</li>
  576. <li>1988: Charlie Hough</li>
  577. <li>1987: Charlie Hough</li>
  578. <li>1986: Jose Guzman</li>
  579. <li>1985: Charlie Hough</li>
  580. <li>1984: Charlie Hough</li>
  581. <li>1983: Mike Smithson</li>
  582. <li>1982: Charlie Hough</li>
  583. <li>1981: Jon Matlack</li>
  584. <li>1980: Jon Matlack</li>
  585. <li>1979: Fergie Jenkins</li>
  586. <li>1978: Jon Matlack</li>
  587. <li>1977: Bert Blyleven</li>
  588. <li>1976: Gaylord Perry</li>
  589. <li>1975: Fergie Jenkins</li>
  590. <li>1974: Jim Bibby</li>
  591. <li>1973: Dick Bosman</li>
  592. <li>1972: Dick Bosman</li>
  593. </ul>
  594. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-16311" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-819x1024.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="688" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-240x300.jpeg 240w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-768x960.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-1638x2048.jpeg 1638w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FPCLHNcX0A0RuTp-scaled.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a></p>
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  600. <item>
  601. <title>2022 Uniform Numbers</title>
  602. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/03/2022-uniform-numbers/</link>
  603. <comments>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/03/2022-uniform-numbers/#comments</comments>
  605. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  606. <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
  607. <category><![CDATA[Site Stuff]]></category>
  608. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16247</guid>
  609.  
  610. <description><![CDATA[Today is 14 Mar 2022, and today is the first official day of Spring Training &#8211; after being delayed by the big CBA lockout.  This also means the Rangers have a proper roster available with uniform numbers, so when I got my hands on it a few hours ago, I instantly stopped watching Star Trek [&#8230;]]]></description>
  611. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is 14 Mar 2022, and today is the first official day of Spring Training &#8211; after being delayed by the big CBA lockout.  This also means the Rangers have a proper roster available with uniform numbers, so when I got my hands on it a few hours ago, I instantly stopped watching Star Trek and jumped into editing uniform numbers for first day of Spring Training.  As is my custom, I&#8217;m making a post here to mark this as well as a new notes and comments I noticed while editing all the pages here.</p>
  612. <p><a href="/uniformnumbers">Here&#8217;s a link to all the data</a>, but before that, a summary of what I learned doing the 2022 start of Spring Training data.</p>
  613. <p><span id="more-16247"></span></p>
  614. <h2><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16249" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022uniform-380x380.jpg 380w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>New Guys</h2>
  615. <p>Here&#8217;s some numbers for the major acquisitions during the offseason (such that it was)</p>
  616. <ul>
  617. <li>2 &#8211; Marcus Semien</li>
  618. <li>5 &#8211; Corey Seager</li>
  619. <li>18 &#8211; Mitch Garver</li>
  620. <li>22 &#8211; Jon Gray</li>
  621. <li>36 &#8211; Nick Tropeano</li>
  622. <li>56 &#8211; Cole Calhoun</li>
  623. </ul>
  624. <h2>Number Changes</h2>
  625. <p>Usually there&#8217;s a player who has been here for a bit who moves their number around, and this spring is no different here.</p>
  626. <ul>
  627. <li>Willie Calhoun goes from 5 to 4</li>
  628. <li>Josh Jung goes from 70 to 6</li>
  629. <li>Dennis Santana goes from 56 to 19</li>
  630. <li>John King goes from 60 to 32</li>
  631. <li>DeMarcus Evans goes from 67 to 58</li>
  632. <li>AJ Alexy goes from 75 to 62</li>
  633. <li>Charlie Culbertson goes from 2 to 11</li>
  634. </ul>
  635. <h2>Not Assigned</h2>
  636. <p>Some years ago when Zack Minasian was our clubhouse guy, I remember hearing him say in an interview somewhere that when a popular or long standing player leaves the team for whatever reason (FA signing, trade, retire) they generally did not give out that number for at least one full season afterwards (unless there&#8217;s some roster squeeze in the spring). That continues into 2022 with the following numbers not being assigned this spring when they were last season (well, mostly last season):</p>
  637. <ul>
  638. <li>1 &#8211; Elvis Andrus</li>
  639. <li>9 &#8211; IKF</li>
  640. <li>17 &#8211; Shin-Soo Choo</li>
  641. <li>20 &#8211; Mike Foltynewicz</li>
  642. <li>21 &#8211; David Dahl</li>
  643. <li>24 &#8211; Jordan Lyles</li>
  644. <li>50 &#8211; Jason Martin</li>
  645. </ul>
  646. <h2>Longest Consecutive</h2>
  647. <p>Also as I do every year, I keep track of who has held their uniform number the longest.  Keep in mind this is not tenure with the team in general &#8211; just &#8220;tenure with their current uniform number&#8221;.</p>
  648. <p>The longest consecutively ACTIVE held uniform number going into this year is now a five way tie.  <strong>Chris Woodward (8), Nick Solak (15), Jose LeClerc (25), Kolby Allard (39), and Brett Martin (59)</strong> have all held their respective numbers now for four consecutive seasons going into 2022 (all of them starting at some point in the 2019 season).</p>
  649. <p>Technically the longest held is Josh Frasier, the bullpen catcher, who has worn #66 since 2005, and assuming he&#8217;s here in 2022 (I haven&#8217;t officially gotten word of that yet for 2022) he would have worn it for 18 seasons.  I&#8217;m not counting Rangers Captain who has worn #72 since 2003.  Neither of these guys are proper rostered players or coaches, so they&#8217;re not being counted as longer than the five way tie above.</p>
  650. <p>As a note, the prior record holder was Joey Gallo with 7.  It would have been Rougned Odor with 8, but he was cut loose during spring training 2021, and didn&#8217;t get his number 12 into the regular season last year.</p>
  651. <h2>General Notes</h2>
  652. <ul>
  653. <li>Meibrys Viloria (#60) will be the best name to hear people mispronounce on the roster.</li>
  654. <li>#69 remains the only number never to be handed to anyone under any condition. ;)</li>
  655. </ul>
  656. <h2>Summary</h2>
  657. <p>There is one thing I was hoping fans could help me by contributing. If you’ve ever looked at <a href="/uniformnumbers">my uniform number history pages</a>, I’ve gathered over the years pictures of the various numbers being worn on players. I’ve posted some of them on the bottom of each number’s page as an “example” of that number. The Julio Borbon picture here is one of those. But check out the pages, and look at the bottom. I think it makes for a nice little archive of pictures.</p>
  658. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/borbon29.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-13342" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/borbon29.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="629" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/borbon29.jpg 687w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/borbon29-215x300.jpg 215w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a></p>
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  667. <title>BASEBALL IS BACK!</title>
  668. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/03/new-cba-ratified-baseball-is-back/</link>
  670. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  671. <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
  672. <category><![CDATA[Rangers News]]></category>
  673. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16159</guid>
  674.  
  675. <description><![CDATA[Owners ratify new contract by score of 30-0. Union votes yes to deal, voting 26-12 &#8211; BASEBALL IS BACK OFFICIALLY! Details and news below. Also, read through the comments, there&#8217;s several other things mentioned there too. Here is MLB&#8217;s official &#8220;FAQ for 2022 Season&#8221;: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2022-season-faq.  More after the break. Details that I collated during the [&#8230;]]]></description>
  676. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl n851cfcs"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 o3w64lxj b2s5l15y b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><b><i>Owners ratify new contract by score of 30-0. Union votes yes to deal, voting 26-12 &#8211; BASEBALL IS BACK OFFICIALLY!</i></b></span></h1>
  677. <p>Details and news below. Also, read through the comments, there&#8217;s several other things mentioned there too.</p>
  678. <p>Here is MLB&#8217;s official &#8220;FAQ for 2022 Season&#8221;: <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2022-season-faq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2022-season-faq</a>.  More after the break.</p>
  679. <p><span id="more-16159"></span></p>
  680. <h2 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl n851cfcs n1l5q3vz"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 o3w64lxj b2s5l15y b1v8xokw oo9gr5id"><b><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16160" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/baseballisback-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Details that I collated during the day</b></span></h2>
  681. <ul class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 fjf4s8hc mf5omzu7">
  682. <li>
  683. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Five year deal</span></div>
  684. </li>
  685. <li>
  686. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Opening day will be April 7. Rangers home opener LIKELY (but not confirmed) to be Apr 11.</span></div>
  687. </li>
  688. <li>
  689. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Likely outcome for Rangers home opener: Those who had tickets for Mar 31 will be used on Apr 11 home opener. Those who had tickets for Apr 11 prior to that will get bumped/credited/etc. Formal decision there coming, but this is likely.</span></div>
  690. </li>
  691. <li>
  692. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Spring training camps open with a March 11 voluntary report date and March 13 mandatory date.</span></div>
  693. </li>
  694. <li>
  695. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Season will be 162 games. Season will be extended 3 days with doubleheaders to make up for April 7 Opening Day.</span></div>
  696. </li>
  697. <li>
  698. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">There were eight votes on the union exec council, and all eight of them voted no. That means the player/team vote was 26-4. The four teams that voted no on MLB proposal: Mets, Yankees, Astros, Cardinals.</span></div>
  699. </li>
  700. <li>
  701. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Playoffs now 12 teams, with the top two division winners earning a first-round bye.</span></div>
  702. </li>
  703. <li>
  704. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Playoff Detail: No more Game 163 tiebreakers. All playoff spots will be determined through NFL-type tiebreaker formulas.</span></div>
  705. </li>
  706. <li>
  707. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Playoff Detail: No re-seeding for the LDS. 1st seed plays winner of 4 vs. 5 Wild Card Series. 2nd seed plays 3 vs 6 winner.</span></div>
  708. </li>
  709. <li>
  710. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">NL adopts designated hitter</span></div>
  711. </li>
  712. <li>
  713. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Man on second base in extra innings is over. Not coming back.</span></div>
  714. </li>
  715. <li>
  716. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">First six picks of the MLB Draft to be determined by lottery</span></div>
  717. </li>
  718. <li>
  719. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Doubleheaders will be 9 innings, not 7.</span></div>
  720. </li>
  721. <li>
  722. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Limits on player options within season (five)</span></div>
  723. </li>
  724. <li>
  725. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Advertising on helmets and jerseys</span></div>
  726. </li>
  727. <li>
  728. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Minimum wage $700,000 &#8211; going to $780,000 at end of deal.</span></div>
  729. </li>
  730. <li>
  731. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Arbitration exchange date (teams, players making salary requests) will be March 22. Hearings will take place during season. Rangers have four arb eligible players. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Willie Calhoun, Brett Martin, &amp; Taylor Hearn.</span></div>
  732. </li>
  733. <li>
  734. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Amateur draft now 20 rounds.</span></div>
  735. </li>
  736. <li>
  737. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">This year&#8217;s Rule 5 draft officially canceled.</span></div>
  738. </li>
  739. <li>
  740. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">There will be a ban on the shift starting in 2023, but as to what form it will take and what the nitty gritty is, that&#8217;s unknown.</span></div>
  741. </li>
  742. <li>
  743. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Clubs that signed players who rejected the QO under the previous CBA will still forfeit draft picks for those players. For the Rangers, they will surrender two picks since they signed Corey Seager and Marcus Semien. In addition, free agents who rejected the QO and have yet to sign will still require the forfeiture of a draft pick. </span></div>
  744. </li>
  745. <li>
  746. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">Rob Manfred says the 2023 schedule will be more balanced. Teams will play at least one series against every opponent in both leagues. </span></div>
  747. </li>
  748. <li>
  749. <div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id">In exchange for agreeing to an International Draft by July 25, 2022, MLB will eliminate the qualifying offer system (direct Draft-pick compensation) for free agents. QO remains for now.</span></div>
  750. </li>
  751. </ul>
  752. <h1 class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fri0a-0-0"><strong>News Stories:</strong></h1>
  753. <ol class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso" data-offset-key="5mftv-0-0">
  754. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq0 _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="5mftv-0-0">
  755. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5mftv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5mftv-0-0">Dallas Morning News: </span><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2022/03/10/mlb-players-agree-to-negotiate-on-international-draft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="5mftv-1-0">https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2022/03/10/mlb-players-agree-to-negotiate-on-international-draft/</span></span></a></div>
  756. </li>
  757. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="j1h6-0-0">
  758. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="j1h6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="j1h6-0-0">Dallas Morning News 2: </span><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2022/03/10/answers-to-questions-how-rangers-may-be-impacted-by-new-collective-bargaining-agreement/"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="j1h6-1-0">https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2022/03/10/answers-to-questions-how-rangers-may-be-impacted-by-new-collective-bargaining-agreement/</span></span></a></div>
  759. </li>
  760. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="7dluc-0-0">
  761. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dluc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7dluc-0-0">Dallas Morning News 3: </span><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2022/03/10/mlb-made-progress-in-fixing-on-field-product-with-new-cba-but-still-has-a-ways-to-go/"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="7dluc-1-0">https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2022/03/10/mlb-made-progress-in-fixing-on-field-product-with-new-cba-but-still-has-a-ways-to-go/</span></span></a></div>
  762. </li>
  763. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="ekgdk-0-0">
  764. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ekgdk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ekgdk-0-0">MLB.com: </span><a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mlbpa-agree-to-cba"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="ekgdk-1-0">https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mlbpa-agree-to-cba</span></span></a></div>
  765. </li>
  766. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="2i5hm-0-0">
  767. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2i5hm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2i5hm-0-0">SI.com / </span><span class="diy96o5h" spellcheck="false" data-offset-key="2i5hm-1-0"><span data-offset-key="2i5hm-1-0">Chris Halicke</span></span><span data-offset-key="2i5hm-2-0">: </span><a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/rangers/news/play-ball-lockout-ends-mlbpa-votes-yes-new-cba"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="2i5hm-3-0">https://www.si.com/mlb/rangers/news/play-ball-lockout-ends-mlbpa-votes-yes-new-cba</span></span></a></div>
  768. </li>
  769. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="cbo2e-0-0">
  770. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbo2e-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cbo2e-0-0">Levi Weaver / The Athletic: </span><a href="https://theathletic.com/3137988/2022/03/10/whats-next-for-the-texas-rangers-now-that-the-lockout-is-over/"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="cbo2e-1-0">https://theathletic.com/3137988/2022/03/10/whats-next-for-the-texas-rangers-now-that-the-lockout-is-over/</span></span></a></div>
  771. </li>
  772. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="15f18-0-0">
  773. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="15f18-0-0"><span data-offset-key="15f18-0-0">The Athletic Main: </span><a href="https://theathletic.com/live-blogs/mlb-lockout-news-mlb-owners-players-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-lockout-sources-say/hQyQ4BISyhwq/"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="15f18-1-0">https://theathletic.com/live-blogs/mlb-lockout-news-mlb-owners-players-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-lockout-sources-say/hQyQ4BISyhwq/</span></span></a></div>
  774. </li>
  775. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="erj3h-0-0">
  776. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="erj3h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="erj3h-0-0">USA Today: </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2022/03/10/mlb-lockout-ends-labor-agreement-opening-day-fans/6986643001/"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="erj3h-1-0">https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2022/03/10/mlb-lockout-ends-labor-agreement-opening-day-fans/6986643001/</span></span></a></div>
  777. </li>
  778. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="amnm7-0-0">
  779. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="amnm7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="amnm7-0-0">ESPN: </span><a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33470321/sources-mlb-union-reach-tentative-agreement-new-cba-salvage-162-game-season"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="amnm7-1-0">https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33470321/sources-mlb-union-reach-tentative-agreement-new-cba-salvage-162-game-season</span></span></a></div>
  780. </li>
  781. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="8lnls-0-0">
  782. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8lnls-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8lnls-0-0">Jared Sandler / Audacy: </span><a href="https://www.audacy.com/1053thefan/sports/mlb-players-reach-deal-to-end-lockout-opening-day"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="8lnls-1-0">https://www.audacy.com/1053thefan/sports/mlb-players-reach-deal-to-end-lockout-opening-day</span></span></a></div>
  783. </li>
  784. <li class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071 lfifhrf7 _3kp_ _3kq1 _3kq6" data-block="true" data-editor="7b49g" data-offset-key="7avfc-0-0">
  785. <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7avfc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7avfc-0-0">Conlas Baseball / Spanish: </span><a href="https://conlasbasesllenas.com/mlb-jugador-de-los-rangers-hace-anuncio-tras-el-acuerdo"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="7avfc-1-0">https://conlasbasesllenas.com/mlb-jugador-de-los-rangers-hace-anuncio-tras-el-acuerdo</span></span></a></div>
  786. </li>
  787. </ol>
  788. ]]></content:encoded>
  792. </item>
  793. <item>
  794. <title>2022 MLB Season Opener Canceled</title>
  795. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2022/03/2022-mlb-season-opener-canceled/</link>
  797. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  798. <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 01:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
  799. <category><![CDATA[Rangers News]]></category>
  800. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=16145</guid>
  801.  
  802. <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to get into it here, as it makes me sad. But the opening of the 2022 MLB season has been canceled (not postponed, but CANCELED) due to labor strife.  Could be more, but for now it&#8217;s just the first two series. The Rangers issued a press release this afternoon about what&#8217;s happening [&#8230;]]]></description>
  803. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not going to get into it here, as it makes me sad. But the opening of the 2022 MLB season has been canceled (not postponed, but CANCELED) due to labor strife.  Could be more, but for now it&#8217;s just the first two series.</p>
  804. <p>The Rangers issued a press release this afternoon about what&#8217;s happening ticket wise with those who have bought tickets &#8211; either individually or as a season ticket holder of some variant.  Here&#8217;s that press release:</p>
  805. <hr />
  806. <div class="page" title="Page 1">
  807. <div class="layoutArea">
  808. <div class="column">
  809. <p>For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 1, 2022</p>
  810. <p>TEXAS RANGERS UPDATED TICKET INFORMATION</p>
  811. <p>Major League Baseball has yet to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association. Since it is important to have four weeks of Spring Training for players to safely prepare for the season, Opening Day of the 2022 MLB season, previously scheduled for Thursday, March 31, is being delayed. The first two series have been removed from the schedule, and, pending an agreement, the regular season for the Texas Rangers will now start on Friday, April 8 at Toronto.</p>
  812. <p>The Rangers are very disappointed that we are not able to start the 2022 regular season as scheduled, and we apologize for the inconvenience this causes you. Major League Baseball is working to get the game back on the field as soon as possible.</p>
  813. <p>This is certainly not a situation we wanted. We understand just how important it is to you that we get baseball back on the field. Major League Baseball’s priority now, as it has been, is to get fans in their seats as quickly as possible.</p>
  814. <p>If you purchased individual tickets to a cancelled 2022 Texas Rangers game at Globe Life Field through texasrangers.com, a full refund will be automatically processed to the method of payment used at time of purchase, including service fees (if applicable). No action is needed to start the refund process.</p>
  815. <p>If you purchased individual tickets for the originally scheduled 2022 regular season opener on Thursday, March 31 against the New York Yankees, those tickets will be valid for the Rangers’ 2022 home opener, when that date has been determined. Fans holding tickets for March 31 may also exchange those tickets for another 2022 game or receive a full refund.</p>
  816. <p>2022 season ticket holders with full, half, or 20-game plans will be contacted by their individual ticket sales representatives to discuss their options, which include receiving a credit for cancelled games, which can be used for future 2022 game purchases including individual, group, and nightly suite rental tickets or 2023 season ticket renewals or receiving a refund for cancelled games.</p>
  817. <p>For more information, please go to texasrangers.com/tickets or call 972RANGERS.</p>
  818. <p>We thank you for your patience and can’t wait to see you Globe Life Field in 2022.</p>
  819. <p>The following 2022 Texas Rangers regular season games are impacted by today’s MLB announcement:</p>
  820. <div dir="auto">Thursday, March 31 vs. New York Yankees</div>
  821. <div dir="auto">Friday, April 1 vs. New York Yankees</div>
  822. <div dir="auto">Saturday, April 2 vs. New York Yankees</div>
  823. <div dir="auto">Sunday, April 3 vs. New York Yankees</div>
  824. <div dir="auto">Monday, April 4 at Miami Marlins</div>
  825. <div dir="auto">Tuesday, April 5 at Miami Marlins</div>
  826. <div dir="auto">Wednesday, April 6 at Miami Marlins</div>
  827. </div>
  828. </div>
  829. </div>
  830. ]]></content:encoded>
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  835. <item>
  836. <title>How Many in 2021?</title>
  837. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2021/08/how-many-in-2021/</link>
  839. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  840. <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
  841. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  842. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15930</guid>
  843.  
  844. <description><![CDATA[Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick [&#8230;]]]></description>
  845. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don&#8217;t even have time for the proverbial &#8220;cup of coffee&#8221;. I&#8217;ve done this for the last several seasons (2021 will be the 14th season I&#8217;ve kept track of this), and it&#8217;s worked out pretty well. I&#8217;ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it&#8217;s become a permanent feature here.  If you&#8217;d like to see the final tallies for the other years I&#8217;ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.</p>
  846. <p>Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2020.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don&#8217;t play immediately (or sometimes don&#8217;t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:</p>
  847. <p>The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.</p>
  848. <p>Total players in 2021: 53<br />
  849. Total pitchers used in 2021: 29<br />
  850. Total position players used in 2021: 24<br />
  851. Total players making major league debut: 12</p>
  852. <ul>
  853. <li>#53 &#8211; <strong>AJ Alexy</strong> (Aug 30 &#8211; replacing Andy Ibanez (10 day DL))</li>
  854. <li>#52 &#8211; <strong>Jake Latz</strong> (Aug 25 &#8211; replacing Dane Dunning (Covid DL))</li>
  855. <li>#51 &#8211; <strong>Ryan Dorow</strong> (Aug 24 &#8211; replacing Jonah Heim (Covid DL))</li>
  856. <li>#50 &#8211; <strong>Nick Snyder</strong> (Aug 20 &#8211; replacing Joe Barlow (10 day DL))</li>
  857. <li>#49 &#8211; <strong>Yohel Pozo</strong> (Aug 13 &#8211; replacing Curtis Terry (optioned AAA))</li>
  858. <li>#48 &#8211; <strong>Yonny Hernandez</strong> (Aug 5 &#8211; replacing Eli White (10 day DL))</li>
  859. <li>#47 &#8211; DJ Peters (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing David Dahl (DFA))</li>
  860. <li>#46 &#8211; Jimmy Herget (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing Demarcus Evans (optioned to AAA)</li>
  861. <li>#45 &#8211; Spencer Howard (Jul 31 &#8211; replacing Joely Rodriguez (traded to NYY))</li>
  862. <li>#44 &#8211; Jharel Cotton (Jul 30 &#8211; replacing Ian Kennedy (traded to PHI))</li>
  863. <li>#43 &#8211; Drew Anderson (Jul 30 &#8211; replacing Kyle Gibson (traded to PHI))</li>
  864. <li>#42 &#8211; <strong>Curtis Terry</strong> (Jul 23 &#8211; replacing John Hicks (DFA))</li>
  865. <li>#41 &#8211; Dennis Santana (Jul 3 &#8211; replacing Wes Benjamin (optioned to AAA))</li>
  866. <li>#40 &#8211; John Hicks (Jun 29 &#8211; replacing Jason Martin (optioned to AAA))</li>
  867. <li>#39 &#8211; <strong>Joe Barlow</strong> (Jun 23 &#8211; replacing Brett de Geus (DFA))</li>
  868. <li>#38 &#8211; Spencer Patton (Jun 9 &#8211; replacing Ian Kennedy (10 day DL))</li>
  869. <li>#37 &#8211; Jason Martin (May 26 &#8211; Replacing OF David Dahl (10 day DL))</li>
  870. <li>#37 &#8211; Demarcus Evans (May 25 &#8211; Replacing RHP Kyle Gibson (10 day DL))</li>
  871. <li>#35 &#8211; Hunter Wood (May 15 &#8211; Replacing LHP Wes Benjamin (optioned to AAA))</li>
  872. <li>#34 &#8211; Khris Davis (May 8 &#8211; replacing OF Eli White (optioned to AAA))</li>
  873. <li>#33 &#8211; <strong>Andy Ibanez</strong> (May 4 &#8211; replacing OF Brock Holt (10 day DL))</li>
  874. <li>#32 &#8211; <strong>Hyeon-jong Yang</strong> (Apr 26 &#8211; replacing OF Leody Taveras (opt to alt training site))</li>
  875. <li>#31 &#8211; Willie Calhoun (Apr 17 &#8211; replacing IF Anderson Tejeda (opt to alt training site))</li>
  876. <li>#30 &#8211; Joely Rodriguez (Apr 16 &#8211; replacing RHP Josh Sborz (opt to alt training site))</li>
  877. <li>#29 &#8211; Adolis Garcia (Apr 13 &#8211; replacing IF Ronald Guzman (10 day DL))</li>
  878. <li>#28 &#8211; Anderson Tejeda (Apr 9 &#8211; replacing IF Brock Holt (10 day DL))</li>
  879. <li>#27 &#8211; Brett Martin (Apr 9 &#8211; replacing RHP Matt Bush (10 day DL))</li>
  880. </ul>
  881. <p>#26 to #1 (in alphabetical order): Kolby Allard, <strong>Kohei Arihara</strong>, Wes Benjamin, Matt Bush, Kyle Cody, Charlie Culberson, David Dahl, <strong>Brett de Geus</strong>, Dane Dunning, Mike Foltynewicz, Joey Gallo, Kyle Gibson, Ronald Guzman, Taylor Hearn, Jonah Heim, Brock Holt, Ian Kennedy, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, John King, Nate Lowe, Jordan Lyles, Josh Sborz, Nick Solak, Leody Taveras, Jose Trevino, Eli White</p>
  882. <p><strong>Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded</strong></p>
  883. <h3>Roster Notes:</h3>
  884. <ul>
  885. <li>2021 goes back to a more normal number of players.  The season starts at 26, which is what 2020 was supposed to be out of the gate, but last season was a fiasco in many ways.</li>
  886. <li>Of the opening day 26 man roster, 2 players are making their Rangers AND major league debut (Arihara, deGeus)</li>
  887. <li>Of the opening day 26 man roster, 11 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Arihara, Culberson, Dahl, de Geus, Dunning, Foltynewicz, Heim, Holt, Kennedy, Lowe, and Sborz.)</li>
  888. <li>Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia &amp; Smokin&#8217; Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish &amp; Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).</li>
  889. <li>Players with &#8220;xx&#8221; in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn&#8217;t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).</li>
  890. </ul>
  891. <p><strong>Old Versions of this Page:</strong></p>
  892. <p style="padding-left: 30px;">[ <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2008/09/how_many_in_2008/">2008</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2009/09/how_many_in_2009/">2009</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2010/10/how_many_in_2010/">2010</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2011/09/how_many_in_2011/">2011</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2012/09/how-many-in-2012/">2012</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2013/09/how-many-in-2013/">2013</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2014/09/how-many-in-2014/">2014</a> | <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/2015/09/how-many-in-2015/">2015</a> | <a href="/how-many-in-2016/">2016</a> | <a href="/how-many-in-2017/">2017</a> | <a href="/how-many-in-2018/">2018</a> | <a href="/how-many-in-2019">2019</a> | <a href="/how-many-in-2020">2020</a> ]</p>
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  897. </item>
  898. <item>
  899. <title>Great Play</title>
  900. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2021/04/great-play/</link>
  902. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  903. <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
  904. <category><![CDATA[Other Baseball News]]></category>
  905. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15982</guid>
  906.  
  907. <description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t Rangers related, but spotted this cool clip on the MLB site this morning.  I&#8217;m also testing their new embedding of video clips feature at the same time.]]></description>
  908. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This isn&#8217;t Rangers related, but spotted this cool clip on the MLB site this morning.  I&#8217;m also testing their new embedding of video clips feature at the same time.</p>
  909. <p><div align="center"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://streamable.com/m/stroman-s-behind-the-back-play" width="560" height="315"></iframe></div></p>
  910. ]]></content:encoded>
  914. </item>
  915. <item>
  916. <title>2021 Season</title>
  917. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2021/03/2021-season/</link>
  919. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  920. <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
  921. <category><![CDATA[Site Stuff]]></category>
  922. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15853</guid>
  923.  
  924. <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ready to go with my site.  The uniform number area on my site here is all updated with the numbers for this season.  Looks like there will be a 162 game season this year, vs whatever that was that passed for a season last year.  Whether or not I go to the games is still [&#8230;]]]></description>
  925. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m ready to go with my site.  The <a href="/uniformnumbers">uniform number area</a> on my site here is all updated with the numbers for this season.  Looks like there will be a 162 game season this year, vs whatever that was that passed for a season last year.  Whether or not I go to the games is still up in the air with me having a medical condition and covid still going on.  But whether I&#8217;m there or not, I&#8217;ll be following the team for sure.</p>
  926. <p>Go Rangers!</p>
  927. ]]></content:encoded>
  931. </item>
  932. <item>
  933. <title>How Many in 2020?</title>
  934. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2020/09/how-many-in-2020/</link>
  936. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  937. <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
  938. <category><![CDATA[Rangers News]]></category>
  939. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15628</guid>
  940.  
  941. <description><![CDATA[Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick [&#8230;]]]></description>
  942. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don&#8217;t even have time for the proverbial &#8220;cup of coffee&#8221;. I&#8217;ve done this for the last several seasons (2020 will be the 13th season I&#8217;ve kept track of this), and it&#8217;s worked out pretty well. I&#8217;ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it&#8217;s become a permanent feature here.  If you&#8217;d like to see the final tallies for the other years I&#8217;ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.</p>
  943. <p>Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2020.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don&#8217;t play immediately (or sometimes don&#8217;t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:</p>
  944. <p>The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.</p>
  945. <p>Total players in 2020: 50<br />
  946. Total pitchers used in 2020: 25<br />
  947. Total position players used in 2020: 25<br />
  948. Total players making major league debut: 9</p>
  949. <ul>
  950. <li>#50 &#8211; Andrew Romine (Sep 24 &#8211; replacing Nick Goody (DFA))</li>
  951. <li>#49 &#8211; <strong>Demarcus Evans</strong> (Sep 15 &#8211; replacing Luis Garcia (DFA))</li>
  952. <li>#48 &#8211; <strong>Sherton Apostel</strong> (Sep 12 &#8211; replacing Elvis Andrus (placed on 10 day DL))</li>
  953. <li>#47 &#8211; <strong>Sam Huff</strong> (Sep 10 &#8211; replacing Scott Heinemann (optioned to ATS))</li>
  954. <li>#46 &#8211; <strong>John King</strong> (Sep 1 &#8211; replacing Yadiel Rivera (DFA))</li>
  955. <li>#45 &#8211; <strong>Eli White</strong> (Sep 1 &#8211; replacing Todd Frazier (traded to NYM))</li>
  956. <li>#44 &#8211; <strong>Kyle Cody</strong> (Aug 20 &#8211; replacing Elvis Andrus (placed on 10 day DL))</li>
  957. <li>#43 &#8211; Yadiel Rivera (Aug 20 &#8211; replacing Willie Calhoun (placed on 10 day DL))</li>
  958. <li>#42 &#8211; Luis Garcia (Aug 18 &#8211; replacing Juan Nicasio (placed on restricted list)</li>
  959. <li>#41 &#8211; Juan Nicasio (Aug 14 &#8211; replacing Edinson Volquez (placed on 45 day DL))</li>
  960. <li>#40 &#8211; Derek Dietrich (Aug 11 &#8211; replacing Anderson Tejeda (optioned to ATS))</li>
  961. <li>#39 &#8211; <strong>Wes Benjamin</strong> (Aug 11 &#8211; replacing Jimmy Herget (optioned to ATS))</li>
  962. <li>#38 &#8211; Taylor Hearn (Aug 10 &#8211; replacing Adolis Garcia (optioned to ATS))</li>
  963. <li>#37 &#8211; Rafael Montero (Aug 7 &#8211; replacing Joe Palumbo (placed on 10 day DL))</li>
  964. <li>#36 &#8211; Joely Rodriguez (Aug 4 &#8211; replacing Greg Bird (placed on 10 day DL))</li>
  965. <li>#35 &#8211; <strong>Anderson Tejeda</strong> (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing Danny Santana (placed on 10 day DL))</li>
  966. <li>#34 &#8211; Jimmy Herget (Jul 31 &#8211; replacing Jose LeClerc (placed on 45 day DL))</li>
  967. <li>#33 &#8211; Greg Bird (Jul 31 &#8211; replacing Ronald Guzman (optioned to ATS))</li>
  968. <li>#32 &#8211; Brett Martin (Jul 28 &#8211; replacing Corey Kluber (placed on 45 day DL))</li>
  969. <li>#31 &#8211; Adolis García (Jul 28 &#8211; replacing Leody Taveras (optioned to ATS))</li>
  970. </ul>
  971. <p>#30 to #1 (no particular order): Lance Lynn, Mike Minor, Corey Kluber, Kyle Gibson, Jordan Lyles, Jose Leclerc, Jonathan Hernandez, Jesse Chavez, Edinson Volquez, Nick Goody, Luke Farrell, Ian Gibaut, Joe Palumbo, Kolby Allard, Willie Calhoun, Danny Santana, Joey Gallo, Shin-Soo Choo, Nick Solak, Scott Heineman, <strong>Leody Taveras</strong>, Rob Refsnyder, Todd Frazier, Rougned Odor, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Elvis Andrus, Ronald Guzman, Robinson Chirinos, Jose Trevino, Jeff Mathis.</p>
  972. <p><strong>Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded</strong></p>
  973. <h3>Roster Notes:</h3>
  974. <ul>
  975. <li>ATS in the list above means &#8220;Alternate Training Site&#8221;, which is the pool of players to pick from given there are no minor leagues this year.</li>
  976. <li>With 2020 being such a strange season, the opening day roster will be 30, then reduced to 28 on Aug 6, and then to 26 on Aug 20.</li>
  977. <li>UPDATE: They did change the rosters from 30 to 28 on Aug 6, but announced that the subsequent cut to 26 was canceled, the roster will remain at 28 for the rest of the season (and postseason).</li>
  978. <li>Of the opening day 30 man roster, 1 player is making their Rangers AND major league debut (Leody Taveras)</li>
  979. <li>Of the opening day 30 man roster, 6 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Corey Kluber, Kyle Gibson, Jordan Lyles, Leody Taveras, Rob Refsnyder, Todd Frazier)</li>
  980. <li>Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia &amp; Smokin&#8217; Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish &amp; Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).</li>
  981. <li>Players with &#8220;xx&#8221; in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 25 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn&#8217;t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here), but the team doesn&#8217;t.</li>
  982. </ul>
  983. <p><strong>Old Versions of this Page:</strong></p>
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  990. <item>
  991. <title>Fox Sports Southwest Plus</title>
  992. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2020/08/fox-sports-southwest-plus/</link>
  993. <comments>https://www.rangerfans.com/2020/08/fox-sports-southwest-plus/#comments</comments>
  995. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  996. <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
  997. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  998. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rangerfans.com/?p=11042</guid>
  999.  
  1000. <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a lot of people ask &#8220;why isn&#8217;t the Rangers game on&#8221;, or &#8220;Why am I postponed&#8221; when it says it&#8217;s on Fox Sports Southwest. The answer is you&#8217;re not looking at the schedule right! Less sarcastically, there&#8217;s a difference between Fox Sports Southwest and Fox Sports Southest PLUS.  Basically, PLUS is a spare [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1001. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-11043" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fsswplus-300x81.png" alt="Fox Sports Southwest Plus" width="300" height="81" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fsswplus-300x81.png 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fsswplus-768x208.png 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fsswplus-1024x277.png 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fsswplus.png 1764w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />I&#8217;ve seen a lot of people ask &#8220;why isn&#8217;t the Rangers game on&#8221;, or &#8220;Why am I postponed&#8221; when it says it&#8217;s on Fox Sports Southwest.</p>
  1002. <p>The answer is you&#8217;re not looking at the schedule right!</p>
  1003. <p>Less sarcastically, there&#8217;s a difference between Fox Sports Southwest and Fox Sports Southest PLUS.  Basically, PLUS is a spare channel that things get shown on when there&#8217;s too many things to show at once.  Like for example a regular season Rangers game and a playoff Stars game.   The playoff Stars game will take precedence, and the Rangers game will get bumped to the Plus channel.</p>
  1004. <p><strong>UPDATED August 2020</strong></p>
  1005. <p>Here&#8217;s an updated image the Rangers posted for the 2020 season:</p>
  1006. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-15675" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120-1024x578.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="310" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120-1024x578.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120-768x434.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120-1536x867.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_0120.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a></p>
  1007. <p><strong>UPDATED March 2018</strong></p>
  1008. <p>Here&#8217;s some info I&#8217;ve gleaned from around the web on how to see Fox Sports Southwest PLUS on various carriers.  Mostly D/FW, but some others..</p>
  1009. <p><strong>Television:</strong></p>
  1010. <ul>
  1011. <li>Time Warner/Spectrum – Channel 320 (SD ONLY)</li>
  1012. <li>Charter (Fort Worth &amp; Park Cities) – Channels 300/32 (SD), 776/35 (HD)</li>
  1013. <li>Charter (Rockwall) – Channels 38 (SD), 860 (HD)</li>
  1014. <li>Charter (Denton) – Channel 314 (SD)</li>
  1015. <li>DirecTV – Channel 676-1 (SD &amp; HD)</li>
  1016. <li><del>Dish – Channels 440 (SD), 9575 (HD)</del> Dish no longer carries FSSW.</li>
  1017. <li>U-verse – Channels 756 (SD), 1756 (HD)</li>
  1018. <li>FiOS/Frontier – Channels 77 (SD), 577 (HD)</li>
  1019. </ul>
  1020. <p><strong>Streaming Services:</strong></p>
  1021. <ul>
  1022. <li><del>SlingTV &#8211; Only on &#8216;Sling Blue&#8217; package, as &#8220;Fox Sports Southwest Alternate 1&#8221;</del>  Sling no longer carries FSSW.</li>
  1023. <li>Youtube TV &#8211; Is there as &#8220;Fox Sports Southwest Plus&#8221;</li>
  1024. <li>Fubu TV &#8211; Is there as &#8220;Fox Sports Southwest Plus&#8221;</li>
  1025. <li>Hulu Live TV &#8211; Is there as &#8220;Fox Sports Southwest Plus&#8221;</li>
  1026. </ul>
  1027. <p>You can also use credentials from most of these providers to log in via the Fox Sports Go mobile app.</p>
  1028. <p>Apparently, Time Warner Cable does <strong>NOT</strong> carry an HD feed of FSSW+.  That&#8217;s pretty insane in this day and age.  I also think that Charter in Denton also only has an SD video feed.  If someone finds out otherwise on these two channels, please let me know.</p>
  1029. <p>If you know it&#8217;s on another carrier that I don&#8217;t have listed, please <a href="mailto:joe@rangerfans.com">email me</a> about it.</p>
  1030. ]]></content:encoded>
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  1037. <item>
  1038. <title>Pocket Schedule Page Updated</title>
  1039. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2020/07/pocket-schedule-page-updated/</link>
  1041. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1042. <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 03:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
  1043. <category><![CDATA[Site Stuff]]></category>
  1044. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15589</guid>
  1045.  
  1046. <description><![CDATA[Updated a page on my Rangers site tonight. It&#8217;s the Pocket Schedule archive. I hadn&#8217;t updated it in a couple of seasons, but I bought it up to date now. Tonight I added the 2020 pocket schedule (which was based off the original 162 game season), three 2019 variants, and three 2018 variants. I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1047. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Updated a page on my Rangers site tonight. It&#8217;s the Pocket Schedule archive. I hadn&#8217;t updated it in a couple of seasons, but I bought it up to date now.</p>
  1048. <p>Tonight I added the 2020 pocket schedule (which was based off the original 162 game season), three 2019 variants, and three 2018 variants.</p>
  1049. <p>I have at least one variant from every year since 1972 on that page, so take a look if you never have and check out some old pocket schedule images.</p>
  1050. <div class="text_exposed_show">
  1051. <p><a href="/pocketschedules">Check it out here</a>!</p>
  1052. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020_1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-15587" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020_1-720x1024.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="640" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020_1-720x1024.jpg 720w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020_1-211x300.jpg 211w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020_1.jpg 733w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a></p>
  1053. </div>
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  1059. <item>
  1060. <title>HTTPS</title>
  1061. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2020/06/https/</link>
  1063. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1064. <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
  1065. <category><![CDATA[Site Stuff]]></category>
  1066. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15561</guid>
  1067.  
  1068. <description><![CDATA[A quick note that I&#8217;ve upgraded the server here on Rangerfans to use https, so you should get the secure padlock when viewing the content. It&#8217;s not super urgent here because I don&#8217;t have anything for you to log into, but still, it can&#8217;t hurt.    :)]]></description>
  1069. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A quick note that I&#8217;ve upgraded the server here on Rangerfans to use https, so you should get the secure padlock when viewing the content.</p>
  1070. <p>It&#8217;s not super urgent here because I don&#8217;t have anything for you to log into, but still, it can&#8217;t hurt.    :)</p>
  1071. ]]></content:encoded>
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  1076. <item>
  1077. <title>My Globe Life Field Tour</title>
  1078. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2020/06/my-globe-life-field-tour/</link>
  1080. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1081. <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 04:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
  1082. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  1083. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rangerfans.com/?p=15488</guid>
  1084.  
  1085. <description><![CDATA[I took a tour of the new Rangers park earlier this week, on Monday in the first hour public tours were available.  I tried to get the FIRST tour, which was Monday at 10AM, but that and the second tour were already sold out within 3 minutes, I got the third one at 10:45AM.   [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1086. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-15492" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-225x300.jpeg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-769x1024.jpeg 769w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-768x1022.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-1154x1536.jpeg 1154w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-1539x2048.jpeg 1539w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3232-scaled.jpeg 1923w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a>I took a tour of the new Rangers park earlier this week, on Monday in the first hour public tours were available.  I tried to get the FIRST tour, which was Monday at 10AM, but that and the second tour were already sold out within 3 minutes, I got the third one at 10:45AM.   So off I went to Arlington, a drive I&#8217;ve made out I-30 a boatload of times over the years, but this one was  odd. Going to our new park for the first time since it was completed, but NOT for a baseball game.   This is the story of what I saw&#8230;</p>
  1087. <p>I got there a little early, and I looked around the gift shop (which seems larger overall, but the space inbetween items is still just a small as the old place.  They didn&#8217;t use the additional space in the gift shop to make it easier to walk in there, they used it to put more stuff in there.<span id="more-15488"></span></p>
  1088. <p>At the start of the tour (which was 12 people), we were told right off that we were not allowed to sit in the seats, something about cleaning the place and covid, so we were asked not to do that.  That kind of bummed me out a little, because I wanted to sit in my actual season ticket seat.</p>
  1089. <figure id="attachment_15495" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15495" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15495" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3236-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15495" class="wp-caption-text">A view of the inside of the ballpark from the gift shop.</figcaption></figure>
  1090. <p>We then went up to the upper deck, and stood on a platform next to the out of town vertical scoreboard. Oddly enough the platform was right next to the scoreboard, you can actually touch the scoreboard&#8217;s LEDs &#8211; which surprised me. This is the scoreboard that was brought over from the old park that used to be in left field, and is now vertical in center.</p>
  1091. <p>After that we walked around the upper deck, and stopped at certain vantage points. One was the concourse in the upper LF area, where you can see all the brick arches &#8211; which were designed to look like the old park. You get a great view of the old park out the window, too. Our tour guide said the idea was to have the brick arches on this side of the new park to mirror the architecture of the old park.</p>
  1092. <figure id="attachment_15497" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15497" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15497" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3244-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15497" class="wp-caption-text">The &#8220;old&#8221; park as viewed from the upper concourse of the new one.</figcaption></figure>
  1093. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1094. <figure id="attachment_15498" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15498" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15498" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3245-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15498" class="wp-caption-text">The arches inside the new park that are designed to match the architecture of the old park.</figcaption></figure>
  1095. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3267-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15501" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3267-150x150.jpeg" alt="" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3267-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3267-380x380.jpeg 380w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>In the upper deck was a really awesome piece of art. Was &#8220;Texas Rangers&#8221; made out of all the uniforms the team has had in the past. Don&#8217;t know whose idea that was, but it was some great looking art. There&#8217;s a picture of it in my photos. Speaking of art, there were plenty of pictures of players, and moments from the past, plus the Feliz/Molina hug is there, too.</p>
  1096. <figure id="attachment_15500" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15500" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15500" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3256-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15500" class="wp-caption-text">The really cool &#8220;Texas Rangers&#8221; uniform artwork. I&#8217;d want to buy a legit print of this.</figcaption></figure>
  1097. <p>We stopped and checked out the brew area and the rocking chairs in the upper LF corner. I still wish I could have bought my season tickets out there, but you can&#8217;t &#8211; group sales only. It does look like a fun area, I&#8217;ll definitely have to find a way to sit in one of those rocking chairs.</p>
  1098. <figure id="attachment_15503" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15503" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15503" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3263-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15503" class="wp-caption-text">My tour group checking out the rocking chairs in LF</figcaption></figure>
  1099. <p>Walked around a bit, and since we walked right by my season ticket spot, I broke off for about 30 seconds, and went and took a pic standing from where my season ticket is. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen my view since the park has been completed. It&#8217;s as awesome as I had hoped, can&#8217;t wait to see a game from there. Those who follow my stuff know what my POV was in the old park.  Here&#8217;s a picture of my new location vs the old location.  In case anyone was wondering, yes it was more expensive, but not by an obscene amount of money.  It cost me $6 more per game for this seat, which including a new ballpark, and a much better vantage point isn&#8217;t a bad deal at all.</p>
  1100. <figure id="attachment_15504" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15504" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15504" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3268-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15504" class="wp-caption-text">The view standing in my season ticket seat &#8211; Section 212.</figcaption></figure>
  1101. <figure id="attachment_15505" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15505" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15505" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6169-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15505" class="wp-caption-text">The view from my seat in the old park (Section 240), as you can see, my vantage point is much improved in the new park.</figcaption></figure>
  1102. <p>We were able to look out of the visitor&#8217;s radio booth, which has a nice view. I was lucky enough to spend an inning last year with Eric &amp; Matt during a game while they broadcasted on air &#8211; I hope to be able to do that here, too.</p>
  1103. <figure id="attachment_15507" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15507" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15507" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3277-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15507" class="wp-caption-text">The view out the visitor&#8217;s radio booth.</figcaption></figure>
  1104. <p>We then went all the way to the lower level, and looked out some of those Field Suites that are behind home plate, and technically lower than the playing surface. It&#8217;s an nice view down there, and probably one I&#8217;ll never get to experience. I&#8217;m not one of those people that has that kind of money, so unless I score an invite, I&#8217;m not doing that. It is a unique view, however. That has been in the Angels park for quite some time, and I&#8217;ve always wondered what that looks like. I have a pic below, so I can imagine it a bit better now.</p>
  1105. <figure id="attachment_15508" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15508" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15508" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3285-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15508" class="wp-caption-text">Below floor level seating behind home plate</figcaption></figure>
  1106. <p>The visitors clubhouse looks significantly less enticing than the Rangers one. While we weren&#8217;t allowed in there because players were on the field, there was video posted which shows the Rangers one, and it&#8217;s much nicer than the visitors. Here&#8217;s that video, and a picture of the visitor&#8217;s clubhouse:</p>
  1107. <p>Edit: This video was removed.  :(   Youtube ID was TpbIdl1jl3g</p>
  1108. <figure id="attachment_15509" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15509" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15509" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3294-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15509" class="wp-caption-text">Visitor&#8217;s Clubhouse</figcaption></figure>
  1109. <p>We got to see one batting cage, was the indoor one for the visitors. We were told the Rangers have two of them. I asked our tour guide if the turf on the batting cages was the same as on the field, and he didn&#8217;t know. It doesn&#8217;t look like it to me, but I&#8217;m not a big turf expert.</p>
  1110. <figure id="attachment_15510" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15510" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15510" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3299-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15510" class="wp-caption-text">Indoor Visitor&#8217;s Batting Cage</figcaption></figure>
  1111. <p>The final area we were in was a club area, which was quite cool. It&#8217;s large, and runs down the third base side. It&#8217;s got a bar area with tables, and it looks out at field level right down the LF line. There&#8217;s multiple pictures of this. The area is lower than the seating bowl, and buts up against the far end of the visitors&#8217; dugout. There&#8217;s also a screen ABOVE you, so you won&#8217;t be able to get foul balls in there at all &#8211; or more importantly hit on the head while you&#8217;re down there.</p>
  1112. <figure id="attachment_15511" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15511" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15511" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3302-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15511" class="wp-caption-text">The underground area that looks out on the field directly</figcaption></figure>
  1113. <p>They also had this cool locker thing in this club where you can order things from the gift shop. They have a touch screen with every single item available in the gift shop, you can order stuff from there, pay for it, and someone will go fetch it for you and leave it in a locker which you can pick up when you leave. Cool idea. I wouldn&#8217;t mind someone fetching my gift shop purchases for me.</p>
  1114. <figure id="attachment_15512" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15512" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15512" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-1024x769.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-768x577.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-1536x1154.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3311-2048x1539.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15512" class="wp-caption-text">Myself down at field level, as I know I&#8217;ll never be able to go down here.</figcaption></figure>
  1115. <p>That was the last place we saw, our final walk was around the lower concourse back around to the gift shop area where the tour officially ends. However we walked past various Rangers dignitaries (including Chuck Morgan) and beat writers who were covering a press conference about the newly viewable &#8220;Shadow boxes&#8221;. These are on the back side of the arches where the retired numbers are. It is a created piece of art for each of the retired numbers including a plaque about them. I have some pictures of this below for the Johnny Oates one, including a cool pic where I stood at the front and looked ALLLLLL the way up at the retired &#8220;26&#8221; number way up high. The Rangers put out a video on the shadowboxes a couple of hours after I visited, you can view that here:</p>
  1116. <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5uM3GZmAH8"><img decoding="async" src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/v5uM3GZmAH8/2.jpg" alt="My Globe Life Field Tour"></a></p>
  1117. <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5uM3GZmAH8">Click here to view the video on YouTube</a>.</p>
  1118.  
  1119. <figure id="attachment_15513" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15513" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15513" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-660x1024.jpeg" alt="" width="450" height="699" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-660x1024.jpeg 660w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-193x300.jpeg 193w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-768x1192.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-989x1536.jpeg 989w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-1319x2048.jpeg 1319w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3322-scaled.jpeg 1649w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15513" class="wp-caption-text">The Johnny Oates Shadowbox</figcaption></figure>
  1120. <figure id="attachment_15514" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15514" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15514" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" width="450" height="600" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3324-scaled.jpeg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15514" class="wp-caption-text">The 26 retired number for Johnny Oates all the way at the top of the podium, taken from the floor.</figcaption></figure>
  1121. <p>On the way out, I got to talk to Evan Grant, TR Sullivan, Chris Halicke, &amp; Chuck Morgan. In fact, I got so distracted talking to Evan &amp; Chuck that I lost my tour group, and ended up leaving on my own. Chuck even sought ME out, saying &#8220;I thought that was your voice I heard over here&#8221;. Fun time talking to these guys.</p>
  1122. <figure id="attachment_15516" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15516" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15516" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-1024x769.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-768x577.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-1536x1154.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3318-2048x1539.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15516" class="wp-caption-text">Myself with Evan Grant</figcaption></figure>
  1123. <figure id="attachment_15517" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15517" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15517" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-1024x769.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-768x577.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-1536x1154.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3326-2048x1539.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15517" class="wp-caption-text">Myself with Chuck Morgan (and a photobomb by Chris Halicke)</figcaption></figure>
  1124. <p>Finally, they gave everyone a mask for the tour. They said these will NOT be sold, so it&#8217;s kind of a collector&#8217;s item. I have a picture of that too, although I didn&#8217;t wear it, I brought my own.</p>
  1125. <figure id="attachment_15518" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15518" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15518" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3340-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15518" class="wp-caption-text">The facemask they gave away if you are on the tours. This mask will not be sold.</figcaption></figure>
  1126. <p>Like everyone else, I wish I could be watching a baseball game, but I enjoyed coming out here. Was fun to see. I have a second tour scheduled for Tue the 9th, hopefully I&#8217;ll get to see some other stuff.</p>
  1127. <p>One last bit.  When I was walking around to the place where the shadowboxes were, there was a guy with a camera and pointed it right at me and took my picture.  I didn&#8217;t think much about it at the time, but he must have liked it, as it got published <a href="https://www.lonestarball.com/2020/6/2/21277860/texas-rangers-news-update-june-02" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">on Lone Star Ball</a> the next day.  Turns out the guy who took the picture was Tim Heitman, doing some freelance photography for USA Today Sports.  :)</p>
  1128. <figure id="attachment_15519" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15519" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15519" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0-1024x682.jpeg" alt="" width="450" height="300" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/usa_today_14368232.0.jpeg 1820w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15519" class="wp-caption-text">Myself during the tour.</figcaption></figure>
  1129. <h1>Photo Gallery</h1>
  1130. <p>Here&#8217;s a collection of other photos I took during the tour (I actually took a LOT more than this), but don&#8217;t fit into the story terribly well above&#8230;</p>
  1131.  
  1132. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-scaled.jpeg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-300x225.jpeg" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_3240-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>
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  1154. <title>Ballpark in Arlington Ticket Pricing</title>
  1155. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2019/11/ballpark-in-arlington-ticket-pricing/</link>
  1156. <comments>https://www.rangerfans.com/2019/11/ballpark-in-arlington-ticket-pricing/#comments</comments>
  1158. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1159. <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
  1160. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  1161. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rangerfans.com/?p=12799</guid>
  1162.  
  1163. <description><![CDATA[Those who know me know I&#8217;m a bit data obsessive once I get behind an idea. My history of uniform numbers is one thing which has gotten me some notice. However, I&#8217;m back with another one. It&#8217;s about pricing of seats at the now &#8220;old&#8221; Ballpark in Arlington. Earlier this season, when talking about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1164. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who know me know I&#8217;m a bit data obsessive once I get behind an idea. My <a href="/uniformnumbers">history of uniform numbers</a> is one thing which has gotten me some notice. However, I&#8217;m back with another one. It&#8217;s about pricing of seats at the now &#8220;old&#8221; Ballpark in Arlington.</p>
  1165. <p>Earlier this season, when talking about the new ballpark in the Facebook group I&#8217;m in, folks snarked in with &#8220;Everything will be going up&#8221; in price, with the implication that if we didn&#8217;t have a new park, prices wouldn&#8217;t be going up. That always rubbed me the wrong way. New ballparks are not an absolute guarantee that prices would be going up.  Now I&#8217;m no fool, prices go up all the time, and they likely would, but the implication that if we stayed where we were prices wouldn&#8217;t have gone up always bugged me.  However, that thought led me to wonder&#8230;.  How often did prices go up in our current park?  I always know a few core facts. When the place opened in 1994, a seat down the front row was $16, and in the last year of the park, the price of a seat in the last row behind home plate was around $26 (more on &#8220;around&#8221; later). So prices went up for sure &#8211; but the path and frequency they took to get there was lost to me.</p>
  1166. <p>I then realized that I had the material at my disposal to find out.  I undertook an obscene level of research on the pricing in the ballpark, and produced a spreadsheet that will show you the price of a ticket in any year of the park in any section. It&#8217;s a ridiculous amount of research &#8211; it took me most of the year to complete it. I had access to some old documents that I had saved from the 90&#8217;s, I had access to all the media guides, and a handful of sales pricing sheets. So I started in on the spreadsheet. It quickly turned out to be a monster of a project, and I had to start over from scratch once when I realized my initial idea for getting the info out was unworkable.</p>
  1167. <p>So that&#8217;s what this is. A summary of my research into the prices of the ballpark. Given the massive amount of info on here, I made it a publicly viewable spreadsheet. I will point out a few of the highlights in this article, but leave it up to you to view the raw data for specific sections..<span id="more-12799"></span></p>
  1168. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2184.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12833" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2184.jpeg" alt="" width="750" height="563" /></a></p>
  1169. <h1>Price Point Comparisons</h1>
  1170. <p>One of the things I thought was interesting was the mere number of price points in the new park vs the now old one.  I decided to look and see what they were at the start and end of their lives.  Here&#8217;s that detail:</p>
  1171. <ul>
  1172. <li>Arlington Stadium (1972): 4 &#8211; Highest was $4.50, and lowest was $2</li>
  1173. <li>Arlington Stadium (1993): 5 &#8211; Highest was $14, and lowest was $2</li>
  1174. </ul>
  1175. <ul>
  1176. <li>The Ballpark In Arlington (1994): 9 &#8211; Highest was $20, and lowest was $4</li>
  1177. <li>The Ballpark in Arlington (2019): 18 &#8211; Highest was $343, and lowest was $13</li>
  1178. </ul>
  1179. <ul>
  1180. <li>Globe Life Field (2020): 33 &#8211; Highest is $450, and lowest is $15  (81 game STH pricing)</li>
  1181. </ul>
  1182. <p>The new park&#8217;s prices are season ticket holder pricing. What individual pricing will be won&#8217;t be known till later &#8211; that info is not yet available. There&#8217;s not much I can do about that because I am writing this piece in Nov 2019 before tickets are fully on sale.  As a side note, the first year we were the Washington Senators in 1961, there were also four price points, with the highest being $3, and the lowest being 75 cents.</p>
  1183. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_0750.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12852" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_0750.jpeg" alt="" width="751" height="563" /></a></p>
  1184. <h1>Seating Charts</h1>
  1185. <p>Here are scans of the seating charts from the first (1994) and last (2019) years of the park.  The 1994 one originally contained pricing info, but in 2019, they didn&#8217;t release individual ticket pricing anymore.  More on that later.    This is to illustrate how much the ballpark got chopped up for &#8220;Additional price points&#8221; as the years wore on.</p>
  1186. <p>You can click on either of these for larger pictures.  If you right click on them and &#8220;open in a new tab&#8221;, you&#8217;ll see the full size image, which is quite large.</p>
  1187. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/seatingdiagram1994.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12814" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/seatingdiagram1994.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="854" /></a><br />
  1188. <a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/seatingdiagram2019.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12815" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/seatingdiagram2019.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="794" /></a></p>
  1189. <h1>Notes from over the years</h1>
  1190. <p>I&#8217;m not going to list ALL of them, as there&#8217;s an insane amount of changes over the years, but here&#8217;s a few of the changes and oddities I picked up in my research that happened to strike my fancy.</p>
  1191. <ul>
  1192. <li>1996 &#8211; The first price change of any kind was just two years after opening. And it was a PRICE DROP!   Sections 201-209 &amp; 241-245 went from $18 to $15.  That was the first year they had what is now called the &#8220;Lexus Club Terrace&#8221;, but then was just called &#8220;Terrace Club Box&#8221;.</li>
  1193. <li>1997 &#8211; In 1997 &amp; 1999, there were two price points in most sections between 201-242. I&#8217;m unclear why.</li>
  1194. <li>1997 &#8211; First year &#8220;Corner Box&#8221; was in existence.  That&#8217;s Sections 10-12 &amp; 40-42.</li>
  1195. <li>1998 &#8211; The 100 level of seats had two price points originally, the last couple of rows were cheaper in price (presumably because they were partially obstructed view), but in 1998, they eliminated that, and they were all the same price.</li>
  1196. <li>1999 &#8211; In the upper deck, Sections 310-313 &amp; 339-341 changed from two tiers of pricing to just one, dropping prices at the time.</li>
  1197. <li>2000 &#8211; First year the &#8220;Commissioner&#8217;s Box&#8221; was in existence.</li>
  1198. <li>2000 &#8211; First year the sections between dugouts (18-34) were split up into different price points.  Prior to this they were all &#8220;Lower Box&#8221;.  Now these sections are &#8220;VIP Infield&#8221;, &#8220;Premium Infield&#8221;, &amp; &#8220;Lower Infield&#8221; &#8211; with several more names to come over the years.</li>
  1199. <li>2000 &#8211; On the 200 level, there used to be just two price points.  &#8220;Club Box&#8221; and &#8220;Corner Box&#8221;.  Starting in 2000, there was &#8220;Terrace Club Box&#8221;, &#8220;Club Reserved&#8221;, &#8220;Club Box&#8221;, &amp; &#8220;Club Infield&#8221;.  these names changed over the years, but it remained mostly this for the rest of the time.</li>
  1200. <li>2002 &#8211; The first year that Section 43 was converted from regular seating to what was then called a &#8220;Party Area&#8221;.  Prior to this, Section 43 had conventional seating in there, albeit behind a fence.  From 2002 onwards, it was a flat area with tables that you could rent out as a party area.  Later on in 2009, this was converted to Group Sales only.</li>
  1201. <li>2004 &#8211; Section 201 was deleted for part of 2004, as well as all of 2005 &amp; 2006. This was because it&#8217;s where the &#8220;Ameriquest Bell&#8221; was for those two plus seasons.  Section 201 returned in 2007, although with a railing that runs the whole length of Section 201 &#8211; that was a holdover from the Ameriquest Bell &#8211; said railing remained till 2019.</li>
  1202. <li>2009 &#8211; This was the first year we had &#8220;Premium Pricing&#8221;.  For games that were deemed important (Yankees, Red Sox, opening day, etc) there was a higher price charged.  The spreadsheet accounts for this by listing both prices.</li>
  1203. <li>2009 &#8211; The Rangers added two new rows of seats called “Home Plate Seats”.  These new cushioned seats are in front of sections 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 30, &amp; 31 and labeled Row “A” &amp; “B”.  These are in front of the existing Row 1.  I would imagine people who had the old &#8220;Row 1&#8221; were pissed at this, since they were now effectively &#8220;Row 3&#8221; despite being labeled &#8220;Row 1&#8221;.</li>
  1204. <li>2009 &#8211; Grandstand pricing used to be 301-309 &amp; 339-345, but from 2009 onwards, Grandstand pricing was only in 341-345</li>
  1205. <li>2009 &#8211; In Sections 18 &amp; 34, Row 4 has two price points IN THE SAME ROW!  That&#8217;s because these sections span the far ends of both dugouts, and the first handful of seats were not over the dugout.  This price point was created to cover the first row of seats over the dugouts, which was priced at the same level as the Commissioners Box.  You can see this to some extent in the photo below of Section 18.</li>
  1206. <li>2012 &#8211; This was the first year of the reconfigured visitor&#8217;s bullpen.  This was also the year they did away with the bleachers, and renamed &#8220;Bleachers&#8221; to &#8220;Outfield Plaza&#8221;, and did away with discount for kids tickets in this area which had been in place since 1994 (and into Arlington Stadium, actually).</li>
  1207. <li>2013 &#8211; The Rangers added an additional row in the front of the “Home Plate Seats” in what is now called VIP Home Plate Seats (Row A) or Premium Home Plate (Row B-C). What used to be “Row “A” is now Row “B”, and there’s a new “Row A” in front of Sections 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 30, &amp; 31.  Additionally, they also created another price point in Rows 1-4 in those sections.  So from 2013-2019, these sections had 5 total price points in them.</li>
  1208. <li>2013 &#8211; Section 126 disappeared off all seating charts completely.  This was because of a new entrance to the seating bowl that was created &#8211; also a secondary reason was to help alleviate some of the &#8220;jet stream&#8221; wind issues.</li>
  1209. <li>2013 &#8211; In the upper deck sections 323-329, there used to be two price points, &#8220;Upper Reserved&#8221;, and &#8220;Upper Box&#8221;, with the split happening starting with row 13.  From 2013-2019, these sections settled on the &#8220;Upper Reserved&#8221; (aka higher) pricing for all 23 rows.</li>
  1210. <li>2017 &#8211; From this point forward, “Variable/Dynamic Pricing” replaces “Premier Price”.  The “Variable Pricing” scheme now lists no prices on the media guides or the programs.  They have a base price, and then can charge more or less (less happened if low sales or bad opponent) based on a number of factors, such as demand and opponent popularity.  <strong>The base price point, and the sliding price condition info is not made available to the public, sadly.</strong> For pricing, the Rangers would tell you “Check the website for latest pricing”.  This affected my spreadsheet for the last thee years of the park &#8211; I have more detailed notes about that on the sheet itself.</li>
  1211. </ul>
  1212. <p>That turned out to be a lot of highlights, but I didn&#8217;t even come anywhere near all the changes there were.  Could have easily written about three times as much.</p>
  1213. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2288.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12849" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2288.jpeg" alt="" width="751" height="563" /></a></p>
  1214. <h1>The Research</h1>
  1215. <p>My primary source of research for all this was the media guides that I have.  I have all of them from 1994-2019.  Some of it came from old pocket schedules, too.  I also had some ticket sales info that I hung onto from years past, and the most recent seasons I have the STH pricing charts.  (Later on I ended up acquiring everything &#8211; I have every Rangers Media Guide from 1972-2020 now).</p>
  1216. <p>This was a lot of fun &#8211; and a lot of time &#8211; to put together.  I&#8217;d be curious to see what people think of this.   Due to all the data I transcribed, there&#8217;s always the possibility of a data transcription error.  If you find something you think is wrong, I&#8217;d like to hear it &#8211; but please &#8211; HAVE PROOF.  Don&#8217;t say &#8220;I think it was&#8230;&#8221;, because if you do, I&#8217;m going to dismiss it.  Please &#8211; have proof of your claim.  I spent a lot of time looking this up, and since I have printed data for all this, I&#8217;m fairly confident in what I have here, but on the other hand, I know I&#8217;m not infallible either.</p>
  1217. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_8568.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12818" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_8568.jpeg" alt="" width="750" height="563" /></a></p>
  1218. <h1>The Document!</h1>
  1219. <p>You can view the spreadsheet by clicking the following link.  It will take you to an iCloud shared spreadsheet.  You do not need to have an Apple iCloud account to view it.  It just shows up in a browser.  If you do have an Apple device, it will allow you to open it in Numbers.  The sheet will be read only.</p>
  1220. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/tbiaprices" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>http://bit.ly/tbiaprices</strong></a></h2>
  1221. <p>As you can see from the small screen capture above, there are colored squares in the document.  The four colors are white, blue, red, &amp; yellow.  They denote:</p>
  1222. <ul>
  1223. <li>White &#8211; No change</li>
  1224. <li>Red &#8211; Price increase</li>
  1225. <li>Blue &#8211; Price decrease (they do happen)</li>
  1226. <li>Yellow &#8211; Administration note</li>
  1227. </ul>
  1228. <p>While I admit the sheet is mostly red for price increases, there are some price decreases.  Not always mind you, but they do happen.  More than just one or two of them as well.   The yellow ones denote some major change to the park that I need to leave a note to explain what is happening at that point.  There are also a handful of cells where there are &#8220;notes&#8221; in individual cells as comments.  Row 13, Column CD is an example of one of those.</p>
  1229. <p>A couple of other notes:</p>
  1230. <ul>
  1231. <li>For some reasons, the most expensive seats are listed as &#8220;Sold Out&#8221; in some areas &#8211; I had no price available.  When I ran into situations like that,  I included that in the sheet as there wasn&#8217;t much I could do if the info was just flat out not available.</li>
  1232. <li>When they added new parts like The Comssioner&#8217;s Box, The Jose Cuervo Club, &amp; The Capital One Club &#8211; pricing wasn&#8217;t always easy to come by.  I did what I could, but there&#8217;s some holes there, since they&#8217;re not &#8220;conventional seating areas&#8221;.</li>
  1233. </ul>
  1234. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-02-at-7.20.14-PM.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12829" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-02-at-7.20.14-PM.png" alt="" width="2706" height="1128" /></a></p>
  1235. <h1>Some Pictures</h1>
  1236. <p>Here&#8217;s a collection of photos I took over the years showing various oddities relative to seating and section issues.   They can all be clicked for a larger version.</p>
  1237. <p><strong>Section 43</strong></p>
  1238.  
  1239. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/43_old1.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/43_old1.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1240. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DSC00020.jpeg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DSC00020.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1241. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/43down.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/43down.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1242.  
  1243. <p><strong>The Ameriquest Bell</strong></p>
  1244.  
  1245. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2559.jpeg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2559.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1246. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_0955.jpeg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_0955.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1247. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/byebell1.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="130" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/byebell1.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1248.  
  1249. <p><strong>Seat Stuff</strong></p>
  1250.  
  1251. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2683.jpeg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2683.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1252. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2694.jpeg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2694.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1253. <a href='https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/commish_020500.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/commish_020500.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
  1254.  
  1255. <h1>Thanks</h1>
  1256. <p>As I&#8217;ve said before, this was an epic amount of research I did in several bouts over the course of the 2019 season.  I had fun putting it together, despite how maddening it was in places to put together (I&#8217;m looking at you Sections 18-34).  Wanted to take a moment and thank a few people for some help they gave me along the way..   Thanks to Tim Lange who helped look up some obscure data stuff for me and with some exceptionally old stuff (like 1972 and earlier).  Michael Gonterwitz for his opinions on a few things I was working on.  To Levi Weaver, Jared Sandler, &amp; Dave Sessions &#8211; all of whom I bounced a few ideas/questions off while I was working on this.  Also Eric Nadel who is always awesome with sharing his time no matter now fiddly of a question I have for him.</p>
  1257. <p>Finally, Chuck Morgan &#8211; while you didn&#8217;t have anything to do with this article, so many things I&#8217;ve done at the park over the years are because of something Chuck Morgan had done either for me personally, or for the fans in general.  I wanted to send a special shoutout to Chuck.  Just because.  Our gameday experiences wouldn&#8217;t be the same without him.  Looking forward to making new memories with you across the street.</p>
  1258. <h1>The Future</h1>
  1259. <p>.. while there isn&#8217;t full pricing available yet, I have gotten my hands on the seating bowl diagram for Globe Life Field.   This is what you&#8217;ll be getting used to from now on.  All those colors are different price points.  I&#8217;ll probably have something to say once public info comes out on that.</p>
  1260. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/seatingchart2020_large.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12685" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/seatingchart2020_large.png" alt="" width="1439" height="1284" /></a></p>
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  1269. <title>Thoughts on 2020 Roster</title>
  1270. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2019/10/thoughts-on-2020-roster/</link>
  1272. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1273. <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
  1274. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
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  1276.  
  1277. <description><![CDATA[As I write this, Game 7 of the World Series was last night (Congrats Nationals!).  Now that the season is formally over, I started thinking about the 2020 roster, and thought I&#8217;d take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts on the various players on the roster, and what I think will happen with [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1278. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I write this, Game 7 of the World Series was last night (Congrats Nationals!).  Now that the season is formally over, I started thinking about the 2020 roster, and thought I&#8217;d take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts on the various players on the roster, and what I think will happen with them.  I&#8217;m going to break them down into groups of players &#8211; not by position, but by their contractual status.</p>
  1279. <p>So I went down the roster, and looked at everyone on it, and had some comments on each player (although towards the end, I cheated and lumped several of the bullpen guys together). <span id="more-12750"></span></p>
  1280. <h2><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Globe-Life-Field-Outfield-View.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12790" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Globe-Life-Field-Outfield-View.jpg" alt="GLF Rendering" width="650" height="366" /></a></h2>
  1281. <p>Before I get into the players, one thing I want to bring up.  2020 has new rules for the venerable 25 man roster.  Prior to 2020, the regular in season rosters have been 25 guys on the major league club at once.  If you had to play a doubleheader, you were allowed a 26th man (almost usually a pitcher) to help with roster issues relative to doubleheaders.  However, this changes in 2020.  The basic roster will now be 26 players, with a 27th allowed for doubleheaders.  Also, the era of September callus is over.  No longer can you bring up all 40 guys on your 40 man roster if you wanted to.  After August 31st, you&#8217;ll be limited to 28 players.  Also, the 28 man roster in September will be mandatory.  All teams will have to carry 28 in September, so there will still be callups, just not as many, and certainly not all at the same time.</p>
  1282. <p>I say all that, because we will be allowed to have an extra player.  With some of the position battles, it will likely affect our roster composition in 2020.  Speaking of 2020, here&#8217;s the players from the 2019 roster, and what I think&#8230;</p>
  1283. <h2>Under Contract</h2>
  1284. <p>These guys are already signed for 2020 (some beyond).  Unless traded, they&#8217;ll be here.</p>
  1285. <ul>
  1286. <li><strong>Shin-Soo Choo</strong>: Signed through 2020 ($20m).<br />
  1287. I&#8217;ve always liked Choo.  He was initially sluggish when he got here, but turned it around, and his offense has never bothered me.  His defense isn&#8217;t as good, but it&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s awful.  At this point, he is blocking some younger guys, so I think he&#8217;s a prime target to be traded.  He&#8217;s also well known for being a good clubhouse guy, and you always need them, too. Has limited no trade protection.</li>
  1288. <li><strong>Elvis Andrus:</strong> Signed through 2022 (w/2023 option &#8211; 20: $15m, 21: $14m, 22: $14m, 23: $15m team option)<br />
  1289. He had a bad year last year due to being hurt for awhile &#8211; something he never seemed to recover from later in the season.  The undisputed team leader.  Went from Michael Young to Adrian Beltre to Elvis Andrus.  He&#8217;ll be here in 2020 for sure.  He technically has a second opt-out this offseason, and while much has been said in the press about him staying, I do not believe he&#8217;s formally notified the team of the decision as of now.  Also, his 2023 team option becomes guaranteed if he gets 550 plate appearances in 2022, or 1,100 plate appearances in 2021-2022 combined.</li>
  1290. <li><strong>Mike Minor:</strong> Signed through 2020 ($9.5m)<br />
  1291. Was the subject of an insane amount of trade talk this past summer.  I sat on the side of the fence that I&#8217;d like to KEEP him vs trade him.  You&#8217;d trade a guy who is GOOD NOW for 2-3 guys who MIGHT be good later?  I&#8217;d like to keep him.  He&#8217;s an insane bargain in 2020 as well.  I&#8217;d like to give him a three year extension.  Won&#8217;t be this cheap, though.   Has limited no trade protection.</li>
  1292. <li><strong>Lance Lynn:</strong> Signed through 2021 (20: $10m, 21: $8m, also due $1m in signing bonus in 202o)<br />
  1293. Was a big surprise in 2020.  I thought he had a real shot at 20 wins last year, until our offense stopped supporting him for awhile there.  I doubt he&#8217;s going anywhere.</li>
  1294. <li><strong>Rougned Odor:</strong> Signed through 2022 (w/2023 option &#8211; 20: $9m, 21:$12M, 22:$12M, 23:$13.5M club option ($3M buyout))<br />
  1295. Here&#8217;s the tough one.  So many people wanted him run out of town, I could have sworn I was seeing people arriving at The Temple with pitchforks to do it.  They&#8217;re probably the same people that wanted to run Gallo out of town, and they wouldn&#8217;t do that now.  What to do with Odor?  Obscenely low batting average in the last two years, but he&#8217;s still delivering in other ways.  He had 30HR and 91RBI in 2019.  Those aren&#8217;t bad numbers at all.  He has a major perception problem, and we&#8217;re not just giving him away for a bag of beans, and we&#8217;re not cutting him.  You also can&#8217;t send him to the minors, his contractual status prevents that without his permission (which you know he won&#8217;t give).  The way I think it will go down is he&#8217;ll go into Spring 2020 without a job to lose.  He&#8217;ll have to play well enough to earn it.  But if we get too far into 2020 with no appreciable changes in batting average and other metrics, then you might make a move.  I think it&#8217;s a lock he&#8217;s on the 25 man roster on opening day, though.  How far after that is up to him this time.</li>
  1296. <li><strong>Jose LeClerc:</strong> Signed through 2022 (w/2023 &amp; 2024 options &#8211; 20:$2.25m, 21:$4m, 22:$4.75m, 23:$6m club option ($0.75M buyout), 24:$6.25M club option ($0.5M buyout)<br />
  1297. LeClerc was the team&#8217;s starter at the start of 2019, and he pitched himself out of that.  Not the first Rangers closer of recent vintage to do that thing (Shawn Tolleson &amp; Sam Dyson).  He did improve after being removed from the role, and had seemingly regained it towards the end of the season.  Still seemed a bit shaky.  However, when he&#8217;s on, he&#8217;s still amazing.  He&#8217;ll be here for sure, but as to what part he&#8217;ll serve in the pen, I don&#8217;t know.</li>
  1298. <li><strong>Jesse Chavez:</strong> Signed through 2020 ($4m)<br />
  1299. He was one of those rare players that two seasons ago we traded away, and then in the last offseason he signed back here for two years, the second of those is 2020.  He&#8217;s never going to be a guy who lights up the gun or wows you &#8211; he&#8217;s a steady veteran who is pretty serviceable at most times.  He can also do a spot start as needed, given he used to be a starter.</li>
  1300. <li><strong>Jeff Mathis:</strong> Signed through 2020 ($3m)<br />
  1301. Mathis was NEVER going to be the next coming of Pudge.  He was a veteran catcher whose reason for being here was being a good defender behind the plate.  He&#8217;s very old school in that regard, since catchers of the past were &#8220;be a good catcher, any offense is a bonus&#8221;.   That&#8217;s what he did.   He signed for two years, 2020 being the second.  The emergence of Jose Trevino probably means that in 2021, Trevino will be the #1 guy and perhaps someone new.  I doubt Mathis is here past 2020, however.</li>
  1302. </ul>
  1303. <h2>Option Players</h2>
  1304. <p>These guys have contracts with team options for 2020.  It&#8217;s totally up to the team to choose to retain them, or cut them loose for the agreed to dollar amount.</p>
  1305. <ul>
  1306. <li><strong>Shawn Kelley:</strong> $2.5m option (w/ $350k buyout)<br />
  1307. IMO, this is a no brainer.  You need bullpen pieces, and Kelly was a good one this past year.  I can&#8217;t comprehend why we wouldn&#8217;t pick this up, unless it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m unaware of.  Also, if I&#8217;m not mistaken, Kelley has said if we don&#8217;t pick up his contract, he&#8217;s going to retire.</li>
  1308. <li><strong>Nate Jones:</strong> 20:$3.75M club option, 21:$4.25M club option &#8211; buyout of $1.25M if an option is declined<br />
  1309. Now Nate is an odd beast.  We traded for him, and he went immediately onto the 60 day DL.  I don&#8217;t have a handle on this one because he&#8217;s basically an unknown.  If you <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesna01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">look up his stats</a>, he&#8217;s not that bad, so we could retain him, but I truly don&#8217;t know how this will go one way or the other.</li>
  1310. </ul>
  1311. <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> As I was finishing this article, the news dropped that we&#8217;re not picking up the options on either of these.  Jones I&#8217;m not surprised about at all, but I am about Shawn Kelley. I thought that was a dead lock to be picked up.   Additionally, on Oct 31st, they traded with the White Sox for a catcher named Wellington Castillo who had a team option, and then immediately declined it, so there&#8217;s that.  They did that to get extra International slot money.</p>
  1312. <p><div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rangers have officially declined 2020 contract options on RHPs Shawn Kelley and Nate Jones and C Wellington Castillo making them free agents. Also RHP Phillips Valdez was claimed off waivers by Seattle. Roster at 34.</p>&mdash; John Blake (@RangerBlake) <a href="https://twitter.com/RangerBlake/status/1190348124281278464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p>
  1313. <h2><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0749.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12786" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0749.jpeg" alt="" width="651" height="488" /></a></h2>
  1314. <h2>Arbitration Players</h2>
  1315. <p>These guys will be Rangers in 2020, but what they will be paid is up in the air &#8211; that&#8217;s what the arbitration process is.  Famously, the Rangers have always reached deals with these guys, and haven&#8217;t gone to an actual arbitration hearing since Lee Stevens in 2000.  So I suspect these guys will work it out, too.  :)   There is always the option that the Rangers could non tender them contracts, which would release them and make them free agents.  But the bulk of these guys will be back, IMO.</p>
  1316. <ul>
  1317. <li><strong>Joey Gallo:</strong> 2019 Salary: $605,500 (Arb Eligible in 20, 21, 22 &#8211; Full FA in 23)<br />
  1318. The only real key here is do they just give him a huge bump in arbitration dollars, or sign him long term.  The latter will eventually happen, and the Rangers don&#8217;t have to do that until after the 2022 season.  My guess is another arb dollar bump this year ($3m?), perhaps a long term deal later.</li>
  1319. <li><strong>Nomar Mazara</strong>: 2019 Salary: $3.3m (Arb Eligible in 20 &amp; 21, FA in 22)<br />
  1320. He&#8217;ll also be re-signed, but I don&#8217;t see them offering him a long term deal until his production stabilizes &#8211; he didn&#8217;t take the jump they were expecting in 2019, so he&#8217;ll need to prove himself before he gets the longer contract.  My guess for 2020: $5m.</li>
  1321. <li><strong>Danny Santana:</strong> 2019 Salary: $3.9m (Arb eligible in 20 &amp; 21, FA in 22)<br />
  1322. A lot of people saw Santana as the heir apparent when they were grabbing their pitchforks on Odor.  But Santana is not a &#8220;young guy who will be there for years&#8221;.  He was a journeyman.  Most people forget Texas was his third team in three years (MIN/ATL/TEX 17-19), and he&#8217;s been in the majors since 2014. Same year as Odor. Santana is also three years OLDER than Odor (he&#8217;s 28), so while not OLD, he&#8217;s not some young kid, either. Having said all that he had an amazing year in 2019. I hope it&#8217;s a trend, and not an aberration. He&#8217;ll be here. But how much the Rangers value what happened in 2019 will dictate his 2020 salary.    My guess is he gets close to the same $3.9 in 2020.</li>
  1323. <li><strong>Delino DeShields Jr:</strong> 2019 Salary: $1.4m (Arb eligible in 20 &amp; 21, FA in 22)<br />
  1324. He&#8217;s a guy we WANT to get it together.  He&#8217;s an average hitter, plus defender, but with a weak arm.  However, I think he could be a good CF solution if he could just be more consistent.  The couple of times I thought he was turning the corner on that, he&#8217;s gotten hurt, so staying on the field is a thing for him too.  He&#8217;ll be here, but whether he&#8217;s the starting CF or not is up in the air.  I think a lot of that depends on whether they move Choo out or not.  My guess is he gets a $2m salary in 2020.</li>
  1325. <li><strong>Rafael Montero:</strong> 2019 Salary: $555,000 (I think &#8211; arb eligible in 20, 21, &amp; 22, FA in 23)<br />
  1326. He pitched in 34 games for the Rangers in 2019.  Oddly enough, despite that I remember Dave Martinez from 38 games in 2000 with us, more than Montero.  That&#8217;s on me.  I can look up his numbers and see how he did, but I oddly don&#8217;t remember his performances, which is unusual for me. He was kind of &#8220;eh&#8221;, though. 119IP, 141H, 75R, and 67BB. His WHIP was 1.748. They&#8217;ll probably re-sign him for 2020, but not to a guaranteed spot. He&#8217;s got a fourth year of arbitration (2022), which doesn&#8217;t usually happen. My guess is a token increase over his 2019 salary, I&#8217;m guessing $600,000?</li>
  1327. <li><strong>Jesse Biddle:</strong> 2019 Salary: $555,000 (I think &#8211; arb eligible in 20, 21, 22, &amp; 23 &#8211; FA in 24)<br />
  1328. If you don&#8217;t remember Biddle, don&#8217;t be too surprised.  We traded for him in July, then he pitched four games for us, all between Jul 2 &amp; Jul 14.  If he stays, he&#8217;s probably the same as Montero, a token increase.  My guess is however that he&#8217;ll be squeezed out once we start having to make roster moves for the 40 man roster to protect guys from the Rule 5 draft.  UPDATE: As I was finishing this article the news dropped that he was activated from the 60 day DL and outrighted to AAA.</li>
  1329. </ul>
  1330. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/EF6IFjBXkAA_C7N.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12788" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/EF6IFjBXkAA_C7N.jpeg" alt="" width="650" height="433" /></a></p>
  1331. <h2>Free Agents</h2>
  1332. <p>These are guys whose contracts ended when the 2019 season did, so are officially free agents at this point:</p>
  1333. <ul>
  1334. <li><strong>Edinson Volquez</strong> &#8211; Finished the second year of his two year contract.  The first year was 100% spent on the disabled list.  The second year was mostly there, too.  Total of 11 games pitched in 2019.  Two right at the start of the season, then he was hurt &#8211; bad.  He almost retired, but rehabbed, and made 9 appearances in September.  He&#8217;s widely expected to retire now, although there was some noise at the end of the season, he might try and continue.  Unknown if they&#8217;d want to try him here if he did.</li>
  1335. <li><strong>Logan Forsythe</strong> &#8211; He didn&#8217;t bother me &#8211; he played well when he played, which wasn&#8217;t much.  He was frequently &#8220;Guy 25&#8221; on the roster, and as such started very rarely.  I doubt he&#8217;ll be back, however.  We have several guys who can play his role who are younger.</li>
  1336. <li><strong>Hunter Pence</strong> &#8211; speaking of &#8220;who are younger&#8221;, that brings us to Hunter Pence.  A guy who had an amazing year, which would have been more amazing had he not broken down halfway through he season.  He was elected to the All-Star game, and couldn&#8217;t play.  Finished the season on the DL, but even with that, he still won Comeback Player of the Year.   He is a fun guy to watch, to listen to, and most fans would love to bring him back.  However, he wouldn&#8217;t start, and if he does come back, it&#8217;s unknown if he&#8217;d want to take the fourth outfielder position.  Coin flip if he returns, although I&#8217;d like him to.</li>
  1337. </ul>
  1338. <h2>Team Control</h2>
  1339. <p>Then there&#8217;s the guys who are under team control.  The way contracts work in the majors&#8230;   Guys come up and have I believe it is six years of team control, where the team can decide their salary.  After that, you have three years of arbitration (sometimes guys get four &#8211; not sure why), before finally becoming a free agent.   That is of course unless the team decides they want to offer them a long term contract &#8211; which they always can, but that&#8217;s generally unlikely.</p>
  1340. <p>There&#8217;s a lot of guys who fall under this on the 40 man roster.  Given it&#8217;s totally up to the team to set their salaries, I&#8217;m not going to get into what they made and what 2020 might be.  I&#8217;ll just speak to whether I think they&#8217;ll be back&#8230;</p>
  1341. <ul>
  1342. <li><strong>Willie Calhoun</strong> &#8211; What we got from trading Yu Darvish isn&#8217;t a player we&#8217;ll easily give up on.  Seemed to make a major improvement in 2019, and I&#8217;d like to think he&#8217;s done with the minor leagues finally.  What happens now depends on how he continues to grow.  Not eligible for arbitration until 2022.</li>
  1343. <li><strong>Ronald Guzman</strong> &#8211; in his last year of team control for 2020 &#8211; first year of Arbitration is 2021.  He&#8217;ll need to show a major improvement.  Lock to be here for this season (in my opinion).</li>
  1344. <li><strong>Tim Federowicz</strong> &#8211; According to one list of players, he&#8217;s arbitration eligible, but then on another, he&#8217;s not.  So I&#8217;m not sure there.  Either way I&#8217;ll be surprised if he&#8217;s back.  They&#8217;ll cut him loose, I&#8217;ll wager.</li>
  1345. <li><strong>Isiah Kiner-Falefa</strong> &#8211; Now that they have him off catching duties, they can pick a spot, but is there one regularly for him?  Some talk of him playing at 3B, but nothing of note.  He&#8217;ll be back, but where he plays is an unknown.  His first year of arbitration is 2021.</li>
  1346. <li><strong>Nick Solak</strong> &#8211; Nick was major surprise this season.  I don&#8217;t have much to say because I&#8217;m just wanting to see him to play.  My gut feeling says he won&#8217;t be on the roster at the start of the season, but he won&#8217;t be far behind.</li>
  1347. <li><strong>Jose Trevino</strong> &#8211; Jose took a major leap forward in 2019, I think.  While I&#8217;m not ready to brand him as the #1 guy, I do seriously think if we get another year in 2020 like we got in 2019, that might change.  He&#8217;ll be the proper #2 guy in 2020 for sure, backing up Mathis.  I&#8217;m also super excited about Jose&#8217;s future.</li>
  1348. <li><strong>Joe Palumbo</strong> &#8211; Joe is one of our biggest pitching prospects, and I can&#8217;t wait to see him progress.  Doubt he opens the season with the big club, though.</li>
  1349. <li><strong>Ariel Jurado</strong> &#8211; Was in 32 games for us, 18 of them as a starter.  Doesn&#8217;t have the best numbers, but still has potential.  Depending on how camp goes, he could be in the rotation, have to see what happens in the spring here. His first year of arbitration is 2022.</li>
  1350. <li><strong>Brett Martin</strong> &#8211; Was one of our most used relievers &#8211; appeared in 51 games.  Doesn&#8217;t have the most stellar numbers, but overall I don&#8217;t think did a bad job.  Probably will be in the bullpen again in 2020.</li>
  1351. <li><strong>Adrian Sampson</strong> &#8211; Someone I saw a ton in 2019, as he appeared in 35 games with 15 starts. Pitched 125.1 innings, so he&#8217;s not an unknown. Like most young pitchers, he had ups and downs. More downs, but &#8220;That&#8217;s the way baseball go&#8221;. He&#8217;ll be in the mix for a starting role in camp, I&#8217;m sure. His first year of arbitration is 2021.</li>
  1352. <li><strong>Luke Farrell</strong> &#8211; One of our ton of bullpen pitchers. Was only in 9 games for us this year. Didn&#8217;t do too bad. 13.1 IP, 4 runs, ERA of 2.70, and WHIP of 0.675. He&#8217;s moved around a bit, was with the Royals, Reds, &amp; Cubs in 2017-18. Unknown whether he&#8217;d come back, but his numbers imply he might be in camp. His first year of arbitration is 2022.</li>
  1353. <li><strong>Yohander Mendez</strong> &#8211; One guy who has for a few years now been talked about being a big prospect.  He&#8217;s been up and down with the Rangers now for four seasons, but only pitching in a total of 20 games across all four years with his lowest ERA during this time being 5.11.  Seems like a guy who hasn&#8217;t grasped the opportunity that he&#8217;s been given.  Not sure what to make of him.  He&#8217;s not eligible for arbitration till 2022.</li>
  1354. <li><strong>Jeffrey Springs</strong> &#8211; He had an ERA in the 3s last year, and in the 6s this year.  That&#8217;s going in the wrong direction.  He keeps getting called up, so they must see something in him, but I don&#8217;t see it.  Whether he&#8217;s back probably depends on whether they bring in any better pieces, I think. His first year of arbitration is 2022.</li>
  1355. <li><strong>Scott Heineman</strong> &#8211; A minor league outfielder I really liked.  Wanted him to get a look, and he did.  Played in 25 games.  Didn&#8217;t embarrass himself, but didn&#8217;t set the world on fire, either.  Needs more time in the minors, I think.</li>
  1356. <li><strong>Kyle Bird</strong> &#8211; Another young arm in the pen.  Appeared in 12 games with us in 2019.  Not sure what to think, probably in the mix in camp, but an early sendout, too.</li>
  1357. <li><strong>Kolby Allard</strong> &#8211; We sent reliever Chris Martin to Atlanta for Kolby Allard, and given how deep Atlanta&#8217;s pitching staff is, this could be a real steal.  I was quite excited about this deal, and nothing&#8217;s changed.  He is under team control for quite awhile, and I&#8217;m really excited about him.  I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;ll be in the rotation in 2020, but if not, he&#8217;ll be one of the first called up when we need someone.</li>
  1358. <li><strong>Brock Burke</strong> &#8211; One of our good pitching prospects.  Probably needs more minor league time.  I doubt he&#8217;ll be up with the team at the start of the season.</li>
  1359. <li><strong>Emmanuel Clase</strong> &#8211; This guy seemingly came out of nowhere to me.  Pitches about 150 miles per hour. I could easily see them including him in the pen simply due to the speed that he throws, but I think we need to see more before I&#8217;m totally on board.   Unknown whether he&#8217;ll bet on the staff for Game 1.</li>
  1360. <li><strong>Ian Gibaut</strong> &#8211; 9 games in the majors with the Rangers.  Another guy I don&#8217;t have much of a handle on.</li>
  1361. <li><strong>Zack Granite</strong> &#8211; On Oct 31, he was activated from the 60 day DL and outrighted to AAA.</li>
  1362. <li><strong>Taylor Guerreri, </strong><strong>Taylor Hearn, </strong><strong>Jonathan Hernandez, </strong><strong>Wei-Chieh Huang, CD Pelham, Phillips Valdez, Zack Granite, Ian Gibaut &#8211; </strong>Lets face it.  We used a lot of bullpen guys this year. I&#8217;m not sure what at this point I can say unique about them.  Perhaps it&#8217;s a failing on my part, but I don&#8217;t have anything particularly unique to say about any of these.  Taylor Hearn perhaps a little more than the others, but hopefully some of these guys pan out.</li>
  1363. </ul>
  1364. <p>Also, Jon Daniels signed a multi year extension on June 7, 2018.  It is unknown how many more years he has on that.</p>
  1365. <p>Finally, while he won&#8217;t play of course, 2020 is the final year that we pay for Prince Fielder.  His official salary for 2020 is $24m.  Detroit pays $6m of that as part of the original trade conditions, and we collect $9m from player insurance.  The final $9m we&#8217;re on the hook for.  this doesn&#8217;t really matter for the active roster, but he is still officially on the books.  Normally that would require him be on the 40 man roster as well, but two off seasons ago, some deal was reached to allow him to not have to be on the 40 man roster, and we still collect insurance (which we wouldn&#8217;t do if we had taken him off).</p>
  1366. <h2><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/EESw75aWsAA-6L4.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12766" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/EESw75aWsAA-6L4.jpeg" alt="2019 Team Photo" width="551" height="367" /></a></h2>
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  1373. <title>How Many in 2019?</title>
  1374. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2019/08/how-many-in-2019/</link>
  1376. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1377. <pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
  1378. <category><![CDATA[Rangers News]]></category>
  1379. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rangerfans.com/?p=12528</guid>
  1380.  
  1381. <description><![CDATA[Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1382. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don&#8217;t even have time for the proverbial &#8220;cup of coffee&#8221;. I&#8217;ve done this for the last several seasons (2019 will be the 12th season I&#8217;ve kept track of this), and it&#8217;s worked out pretty well. I&#8217;ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it&#8217;s become a permanent feature here.  If you&#8217;d like to see the final tallies for the other years I&#8217;ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.</p>
  1383. <p>Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2019.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don&#8217;t play immediately (or sometimes don&#8217;t play at all), as they will be part of the 25 man roster officially. So here goes.</p>
  1384. <p>The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.</p>
  1385. <p>Total players in 2019: 52<br />
  1386. Total pitchers used in 2019: 33<br />
  1387. Total position players used in 2019: 19<br />
  1388. Total players making major league debut: 14</p>
  1389. <ul>
  1390. <li>#52 &#8211; Luke Farrell (Aug 23 &#8211; replacing Locke St. John (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1391. <li>#51 &#8211; <strong>Jonathan Hernandez</strong> (Aug 20 &#8211; replacing Phillips Valdez (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1392. <li>#50 &#8211; <strong>Brocke Burke</strong> (Aug 20 &#8211; replacing Ian Gibaut (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1393. <li>#49 &#8211; <strong>Nick Solak</strong> (Aug 20 &#8211; replacing Nomar Mazara (10 day DL))</li>
  1394. <li>#48 &#8211; Ian Gibaut (Aug 16 &#8211; replacing Pedro Payano (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1395. <li>#47 &#8211; Kolby Allard (Aug 9 &#8211; replacing Scott Heineman (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1396. <li>#46 &#8211; <strong>Emmanuel Clase</strong> (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing Kyle Bird (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1397. <li>#45 &#8211; Jose Trevino (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing Tim Federowicz (DFA))</li>
  1398. <li>#44 &#8211; <strong>Scott Heineman</strong> (Aug 2 &#8211; replacing Asdrubal Cabrera (DFA))</li>
  1399. <li>#43 &#8211; Rafael Montero (Jul 22 &#8211; replacing Shawn Kelley (10 day DL))</li>
  1400. <li>#42 &#8211; Taylor Guerreri (Jul 16 &#8211; replacing Willie Calhoun (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1401. <li>#41 &#8211; <strong>Pedro Payano</strong> (Jul 6 &#8211; replacing Locke St. John (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1402. <li>#40 &#8211; Jesse Biddle (Jul 1 &#8211; replacing Shelby Miller (DFA))</li>
  1403. <li>#39 &#8211; <strong>Locke St. John</strong> (Jun 20 &#8211; replacing Drew Smyly (DFA))</li>
  1404. <li>#38 &#8211; <strong>Peter Fairbanks</strong> (Jun 8 &#8211; replacing Joe Palumbo (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1405. <li>#37 &#8211; <strong>Phillips Valdez</strong> (Jun 8 &#8211; 26th man DH player)</li>
  1406. <li>#36 &#8211; <strong>Joe Palumbo</strong> (Jun 8 &#8211; replacing David Carpenter (DFA))</li>
  1407. <li>#35 &#8211; Tim Federowicz (Jun 7 &#8211; replacing Isiah Kiner-Falefa (10 day DL))</li>
  1408. <li>#34 &#8211; David Carpenter (May 31 &#8211; replacing Zack Granite (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1409. <li>#xx &#8211; Zack Granite (May 29 &#8211; replacing Kyle Bird (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1410. <li>#33 &#8211; Willie Calhoun (May 15 &#8211; replacing Elvis Andrus (10 day DL))</li>
  1411. <li>#32 &#8211; <strong>Wei-Chieh Huang</strong> (Apr 26 &#8211; replacing Jeffrey Springs (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1412. <li>#31 &#8211; Ariel Jurado (Apr 26 &#8211; replacing Taylor Hearn (10 day DL))</li>
  1413. <li>#30 &#8211; <strong>Taylor Hearn </strong>(Apr 25 &#8211; replacing Wei-Chieh Huang (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1414. <li>#29 &#8211; <strong>Brett Martin</strong> (Apr 19 &#8211; replacing Kyle Bird (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1415. <li>#28 &#8211; Danny Santana (Apr 13 &#8211; replacing Rougned Odor (10 day DL))</li>
  1416. <li>#27 &#8211; Patrick Wisdom (Apr 7 &#8211; replacing Ronald Guzman (10 day DL))</li>
  1417. <li>#26 &#8211; Adrian Sampson (Apr 1 &#8211; replacing Kyle Bird (optioned to AAA))</li>
  1418. </ul>
  1419. <p>#25 to #1 (no particular order): <strong>Kyle Bird</strong>, Jesse Chavez, <strong>Kyle Dowdy</strong>, Jeanmar Gomez, Shawn Kelley, Jose Leclerc, Lance Lynn, Chris Martin, Shelby Miller, Mike Minor, Drew Smiley, Jeffrey Springs, Edinson Volquez, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jeff Mathis, Elvis Andrus, Asdubal Cabrera, Logan Forsythe, Ronald Guzman, Rougned Odor, Shin-Soo Choo, Delino DeShields, Joey Gallo, Nomar Mazara, Hunter Pence.</p>
  1420. <p><strong>Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded</strong></p>
  1421. <h3>Roster Notes:</h3>
  1422. <ul>
  1423. <li>Of the opening day 25 man roster, 2 players made their Rangers AND major league debut (Kyle Bird, Kyle Dowdy)</li>
  1424. <li>Of the opening day 25 man roster, 9 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Bird, Dowdy, Gomez, Lynn, Miller, Smiley, Cabrera, Forsythe, Pence)</li>
  1425. <li>Previous years counts for major league debuts.. 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia &amp; Smokin&#8217; Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish &amp; Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).</li>
  1426. <li>Players with &#8220;xx&#8221; in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 25 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn&#8217;t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here), but the team doesn&#8217;t.</li>
  1427. <li>Wei-Chieh Huang was originally brought up Apr 23rd, sent down on the 25th, and brought back on the 26th.  Between the 23rd and the 25th he didn&#8217;t actually pitch.</li>
  1428. </ul>
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  1437. <title>32 Teams, No DH, 154 Games, and more</title>
  1438. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2019/06/32-teams-no-dh-154-games-and-more/</link>
  1440. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1441. <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
  1442. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
  1443. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rangerfans.com/?p=12245</guid>
  1444.  
  1445. <description><![CDATA[There is a very cool article from Jayson Stark on The Athletic now. It&#8217;s very cool, very detailed, and talks about the coming major changes to MLB. We&#8217;re not talking small stuff like pitch clock or mound visits. But radical, larger changes like the implementation of the DH across all baseball, expansion to 32 teams, [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1446. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is <a href="https://theathletic.com/390737/2018/06/13/stark-how-mlb-expansion-could-lead-to-realignment-a-new-playoff-format-a-universal-dh-and-more/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a very cool article from Jayson Stark on The Athletic</a> now. It&#8217;s very cool, very detailed, and talks about the coming major changes to MLB. We&#8217;re not talking small stuff like pitch clock or mound visits. But radical, larger changes like the implementation of the DH across all baseball, expansion to 32 teams, radical realignment, and the possible elimination of the AL &amp; NL leagues into one single large league.</p>
  1447. <p>Now he just doesn&#8217;t throw out ideas without backup. That&#8217;s what social media &amp; Facebook groups are for (haha). He has well thought out remarks on all of this. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s behind the paywall, so you can&#8217;t read all of it, but I do want to take a moment and say a subscription to the Athletic is spectacular. I got in there because I had signed up for Levi Weaver&#8217;s own local service, and when he started with the Athletic, my subscription carried over.  <a href="https://theathletic.com/checkout?pc=raf25&amp;plan_id=45&amp;shared_by_name=Joe&amp;shared_by=199066" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">If you use my link</a>, you can get 25% off a subscription, and if you sign up, I get $10 from them, so go &#8211; <a href="https://theathletic.com/checkout?pc=raf25&amp;plan_id=45&amp;shared_by_name=Joe&amp;shared_by=199066" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">check it out</a>.</p>
  1448. <p>Anyway, I&#8217;m gonna touch base on all of what he said with my own thoughts on it.<span id="more-12245"></span></p>
  1449. <p>1) <strong>Expansion to 32 teams.</strong> This was always going to happen. We haven&#8217;t added any teams since 1998 (Rays &amp; Diamondbacks).  The current layout of the teams means that we have an odd number of teams in the two leagues.  It makes for a wildly unbalanced schedule, and expanding to 32 teams means more evenly spaced out everything.  I&#8217;m hoping this happens sooner than later, so a great number of things can be smoothed out.  Doing this sets off a chain of events of other things.</p>
  1450. <p>2) <strong>Where</strong> &#8211; Yeah, OK, two more teams.  Where would they go?  More on that later.</p>
  1451. <p>3) <strong>Less Games</strong> &#8211; Dropping to 154. This would be in combination of 32 teams and more playoffs.  The idea here would be to give more space to off days, and shrinks the season by about 10 days.  Another round of playoffs would fit in here quite nicely &#8211; see next entry.</p>
  1452. <p>4) <strong>More Playoffs</strong> &#8211; Payoff for losing 8 games from regular season would be expanded playoffs.  What format this takes is seriously up in the air, but if you&#8217;re taking away a few home games from the owners, they&#8217;re gonna want something back from that, and expanded playoffs will make up for that.</p>
  1453. <p>5) <strong>Designated Hitter Everywhere</strong> &#8211; I grew up in an NL town. I never saw a game with a DH until I moved to Texas in 1992. I don&#8217;t want to see one again &#8211; I detest pitchers batting. Yeah yeah yeah &#8211; purist thing. I think this needs to go. There&#8217;s zero chance they&#8217;ll go the other way &#8211; the union won&#8217;t allow that, as it&#8217;d mean loss of a roster position and jobs. If anything they&#8217;d want it everywhere to prolong careers. I strongly thing this is a WHEN not an IF thing.</p>
  1454. <p>6) <strong>Eliminating AL/NL</strong> &#8211; That seems to be still up in the air. The idea being the AL &amp; NL haven&#8217;t really &#8220;MEANT ANYTHING&#8221; in quite a long time. They technically still exist, but for ages now have been under the sole control of the commissioner&#8217;s office. There&#8217;s figurehead Presidents of both, but it&#8217;s not like it was 50,60 years ago when there were rival leagues competing against each other. They&#8217;ve been separate leagues in name only. Really the only thing separating them now is the DH, and if you lose that, there&#8217;s really no need to keep them separate anymore.</p>
  1455. <p>7) <strong>Interleague Play</strong> &#8211; If they eliminate the AL/NL distinction, then there&#8217;s no need for Interleague play anymore.  Even if they keep it, expanding by two teams (assuming one AL and one NL) there won&#8217;t be any need for Interleague play all the time, and it could go back to the way it used to be where it was &#8220;grouped&#8221; during the season.  However, I think elimination of AL/NL and Interleague is where this is going.  No news, just gut feeling.</p>
  1456. <p>8) <strong>Realignment</strong> &#8211; The idea in Stark&#8217;s article is that there would be radical realignment and the teams would be re-organized by geographical locations.  This is something that is so needed for the Rangers specifically, when three of our five (used to be 3 of 4) teams are on the West coast. 9PM games suck.  Now there would still be 9PM games, but not as many as there are now.  Still blame Tom Hicks for this &#8211; we had an out, and Hicks let Selig off the hook &#8211; we WERE going to move to the AL Central.    There was a quote by Manfred said that realignment would help situations that we have now like say the Yankees play the Angels in the playoffs in a five game series &#8211; would be some hellacious travel, not to mention fans on each side complaining about the TV broadcast times when they&#8217;re away.  That is another big deal that radical realignment would fix.  More details on this in the bit below about where the expansion teams would go.</p>
  1457. <p><strong>Where Expansion Teams Would Go</strong></p>
  1458. <p>This is the $64 question.  There&#8217;s plenty of options there, and Jayson gives each of them a whole paragraph as to why or why not.  I&#8217;ve personally felt it&#8217;s going to be Portland and Montreal, but they&#8217;re by far not the only choices out there.   Manfred has said that they will not expand until they figure out what&#8217;s going to happen with the A&#8217;s and the Rays.  The A&#8217;s want to move, but have been thwarted by all the teams in the area claiming geographical restriction.  They could stay in Oakland, too.  The Rays have that dumpster fire of a stadium that by contract they can&#8217;t get out of for 30 years after moving in.  So those two need to be resolved first.  Entirely possible they stay where they are, too, and not relocate.</p>
  1459. <p>Stark lists these cities as possibilities:</p>
  1460. <ol>
  1461. <li>Portland, OR</li>
  1462. <li>Charlotte, NC</li>
  1463. <li>Nashville, TN</li>
  1464. <li>Montreal, CAN</li>
  1465. <li>San Antonio / Austin, TX</li>
  1466. <li>Las Vegas, NV</li>
  1467. <li>Mexico City, MEX</li>
  1468. </ol>
  1469. <p>Jayson&#8217;s choices are Charlotte and Portland.  I think Montreal and Portland.  With that in mind, here&#8217;s what I have for realignment, which also assumes elimination of the AL/NL distinction.   Jayon&#8217;s article has names like &#8220;Bambino Divison&#8221;, and &#8220;Musial Divison&#8221;&#8230;  I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;d do that.  I&#8217;ll just put something else there.  These names are not going to be final, just something I&#8217;m throwing together for this.</p>
  1470. <p class=""><strong><span class="">EAST DIVISION</span></strong><br class="" />NY Yankees<br class="" />NY Mets<br class="" />Baltimore Orioles<br class="" />Washington Nationals</p>
  1471. <p class=""><strong><span class="">NORTHEAST DIVISION</span></strong><br class="" />Red Sox<br class="" />Blue Jays<br class="" />Phillies<br class="" />Pirates</p>
  1472. <p class=""><strong><span class="">SOUTHERN DIVISION</span></strong><br class="" />Braves<br class="" />Marlins<br class="" />Rays<br class="" />Charlotte*</p>
  1473. <p class=""><strong><span class="">MIDWEST DIVISION</span></strong><br class="" />Cardinals<br class="" />Tigers<br class="" />Reds<br class="" />Indians</p>
  1474. <p class=""><strong>WESTERN DIVISION</strong><br class="" />Dodgers<br class="" />Angels<br class="" />Diamondbacks<br class="" />Padres</p>
  1475. <p class=""><strong>PACIFIC DIVISION</strong><br class="" />Giants<br class="" />A’s<br class="" />Mariners<br class="" />Portland</p>
  1476. <p class=""><strong><span class="">SOUTHWEST DIVISION</span></strong><br class="" />Royals<br class="" />Astros<br class="" />Rangers<br class="" />Rockies</p>
  1477. <p class=""><strong><span class="">CENTRAL DIVISION</span></strong><br class="" />Cubs<br class="" />White Sox<br class="" />Brewers<br class="" />Twins</p>
  1478. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1479. <p>Jayson Stark finishes with this, and I agree with him:  <em>&#8220;So you can close your eyes and try to picture all of this. But this is no Rob Manfred pipe dream. This is going to happen. This isn’t a matter of if. It’s a matter of filling in the year – and then filling in all the brave-new-world details that are guaranteed to follow.&#8221;</em></p>
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  1486. <title>Free Drinks at Rangers Ballpark</title>
  1487. <link>https://www.rangerfans.com/2019/03/free-drinks-at-rangers-ballpark/</link>
  1489. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Siegler]]></dc:creator>
  1490. <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2019 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
  1491. <category><![CDATA[From Joe's Mind]]></category>
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  1494. <description><![CDATA[Well, OK, by &#8220;drinks&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean booze.  I mean a soft drink, like a Coke or a lemonade or something&#8230; Don&#8217;t know who knows about this one, but I thought I&#8217;d pass it on. The Rangers for awhile now have had this booth on the concourse behind home plate and the &#8220;Guest Services&#8221; area. [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1495. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18953414_10154738802101158_1301265049940273914_o.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-12210" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18953414_10154738802101158_1301265049940273914_o.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="433" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18953414_10154738802101158_1301265049940273914_o.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18953414_10154738802101158_1301265049940273914_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18953414_10154738802101158_1301265049940273914_o-768x1024.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px" /></a>Well, OK, by &#8220;drinks&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean booze.  I mean a soft drink, like a Coke or a lemonade or something&#8230;</p>
  1496. <p>Don&#8217;t know who knows about this one, but I thought I&#8217;d pass it on. The Rangers for awhile now have had this booth on the concourse behind home plate and the &#8220;Guest Services&#8221; area. See the pic in the post.</p>
  1497. <p>Anyway, if you fill out the coupon there, you pledge to be a &#8220;Good Sport&#8221;, which basically means you don&#8217;t drink anything (alcoholic) while you&#8217;re there.</p>
  1498. <p>For the last few years, it&#8217;s been really good.  However in 2019, they changed the terms, and made it far more restrictive, and to be honest, to the point where I don&#8217;t know if I want to bother with it anymore.</p>
  1499. <p>You still go there and sign up, and you do get a coupon.  Despite the coupon physically being the same from last year (and saying fountain drink), they no longer give you a cup which you could use to get a soft drink.  All they give you is one 12oz CAN of soda.  Either Coke, Diet Coke, or Dr Pepper.  That&#8217;s it.  No other options.</p>
  1500. <p>On top of that restriction, where you get them is now far more restrictive.  You used to be able to turn them in at any stand anywhere.  NOW there are only THREE STANDS IN THE ENTIRE BALLPARK that take the coupons.  Two of them are right behind home plate near the place you fill out the form for the card.  The other one is in the 300 level.  There&#8217;s NOTHING in the 200 level.  I took a picture of the sign they had at the table showing where you can redeem the cards now.  It&#8217;s below.</p>
  1501. <p>The program is STUPID restrictive now.  I haven&#8217;t drunk fizzy drinks in years now, so I&#8217;m pretty much out.  I would always get lemonade or Powerade.  I got a Diet Coke on opening day, and took three sips of it, and then threw the rest out &#8211; I can&#8217;t drink fizzy drinks anymore, just tastes awful.  ALL of them.</p>
  1502. <p>So if you&#8217;re not into Coke, Diet Coke, or Dr Pepper, then they&#8217;ve changed this so much it&#8217;s not worth it.  Which sucks, as this used to be a great way to save money.  I don&#8217;t know whether this was Budweiser doing this, or the Rangers offices, or the food service company &#8211; but someone decided too many freebies were being given out apparently, and restricted the hell out of the program.  That is sad.  :(</p>
  1503. <p><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0704.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12534" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0704.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="413" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0704.jpeg 4032w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0704-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0704-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0704-1024x768.jpeg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a></p>
  1504. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1505. <figure id="attachment_12535" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12535" style="width: 550px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0706.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-12535" src="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0706.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="733" srcset="https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0706.jpg 1536w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0706-225x300.jpg 225w, https://www.rangerfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_0706-768x1024.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-12535" class="wp-caption-text">One of the only three things you can get with a coupon now</figcaption></figure>
  1506. <hr />
  1507. <p>These were the original terms I had on this post when it was good for the last several years.<br />
  1508. <strong>THESE ARE NOT CURRENT TERMS ANYMORE AS OF 2019&#8230;</strong></p>
  1509. <p>They give you a voucher for a free soft drink in the park. I use it every time I&#8217;m there to get a free lemonade.</p>
  1510. <p>On Dollar Hot dog nights, it&#8217;s even better &#8211; last one I had a drink and three hot dogs for just $3 at the ballpark.</p>
  1511. <p>Now it&#8217;s an honor system thing for sure.  There&#8217;s nothing stopping you from signing up for that, and then walking straight to buy a beer.   But that&#8217;s uncool.   If you don&#8217;t drink at the park, you might as well do it.  Free medium soft drink at ballpark prices is nothing to sneeze at.  :)</p>
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