Texas Rangers Baseball Thread

[BigTex]

Robinson Chirinos is returning to the Rangers. The Rangers have signed Chirinos to a contract for the 2020 season with an option for 2021.

I like Chirinos. Hope he is not on the decline.

[Mark]

The Rangers have reached an agreement with Todd Frazier. That will fill third base for the upcoming season.


Frazier actually fills two needs: third base, and right-handed bat. It will be interesting to see how he does in the new ballpark, where the wall will be only 372 feet away to straightaway left field.

[Mark]

The deal with Frazier is for a $3.5 million salary in 2020, with an club option for $5.75 million in 2021 with a $1.5 million buyout.

[jellowrestling]

Robinson Chirinos is returning to the Rangers. The Rangers have signed Chirinos to a contract for the 2020 season with an option for 2021.

I like Chirinos. Hope he is not on the decline.

My wife will be very happy. She loves Chirinos.

[BigTex]

Chirinos got out just in time.

What did Nolan know and when did he know it?

[Mark]

Chirinos got out just in time.

What did Nolan know and when did he know it?

Why wasn't Cora suspended right alongside Lunhow and Hinch?

Was Yu Darvish really tipping his pitches in 2017?

The 2017 and 2018 World Series titles should both be stripped away. There should be no champion for those two seasons.


Lunhow probably has some "plausible deniability." However, there's no way in hell that Hinch was unaware of all the trash can banging and/or never asked what it was about.

[BigTex]

Well damn. Hunter Pence is going back to the Giants.

[Mark]

Chirinos got out just in time.

What did Nolan know and when did he know it?

This story makes it clear that the cheating permeated the entire organization. Everybody knew.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/02/ ... zzers.html

[BigTex]

Chirinos got out just in time.

What did Nolan know and when did he know it?

This story makes it clear that the cheating permeated the entire organization. Everybody knew.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/02/ ... zzers.html

I'm sure everybody knew. But I don't think anybody expects Chirinos to answer for anything.

[BigTex]

What do we think about this?


Major League Baseball is mulling significant changes to its postseason, including increasing the number of teams from 10 to 14 and adding a reality TV-type format to determine which teams play each other in an expanded wild-card round, sources told ESPN.

MLB is considering a move in which each league would have three division winners and four wild-card teams making the postseason starting in 2022, sources said. The best team in the league would receive a bye into the division series. The two remaining division winners and the wild-card team with the best record of the four would each host all games of a best-of-three series in the opening round.


Once the teams clinch and the regular season ends, the plan gets congested:

The division winner with the second-best record would select its wild-card opponent from the three wild-card winners not hosting a series.

The division winner with the worst record would then choose its opponent from the remaining two wild-card teams.

The final matchup would pit the wild-card winner with the best record against the wild-card team not yet chosen.

All of the selections, sources said, would be unveiled live on television the Sunday night of the final regular-season games.

Currently, two teams from each league play a winner-take-all wild-card game, and the winner faces the team with the league's best record.

The appeal of the changes, according to the New York Post, which first reported on the possibility, is twofold. It could increase fan interest and could benefit MLB via a richer television-rights package.

Any proposal would have to be negotiated with the players' association. The current collective bargaining agreement runs through the 2021 season.

"Expanding the playoffs in a sensible way is something worth discussing when part of a much more comprehensive conversation about the current state of our game," union head Tony Clark said in a statement.

The winners of the wild-card series would advance to the divisional round.

[Mark]

Chirinos got out just in time.

What did Nolan know and when did he know it?

This story makes it clear that the cheating permeated the entire organization. Everybody knew.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/02/ ... zzers.html

I'm sure everybody knew. But I don't think anybody expects Chirinos to answer for anything.

Chrinos doesn't have to answer for anything. The players were all guaranteed immunity for coming clean. That should be the end of it for them, and they should understand that they can never engage in such a scheme again.

The point is that St. Nolan knew.

[Mark]

What do we think about this?


Major League Baseball is mulling significant changes to its postseason, including increasing the number of teams from 10 to 14 and adding a reality TV-type format to determine which teams play each other in an expanded wild-card round, sources told ESPN.

MLB is considering a move in which each league would have three division winners and four wild-card teams making the postseason starting in 2022, sources said. The best team in the league would receive a bye into the division series. The two remaining division winners and the wild-card team with the best record of the four would each host all games of a best-of-three series in the opening round.


Once the teams clinch and the regular season ends, the plan gets congested:

The division winner with the second-best record would select its wild-card opponent from the three wild-card winners not hosting a series.

The division winner with the worst record would then choose its opponent from the remaining two wild-card teams.

The final matchup would pit the wild-card winner with the best record against the wild-card team not yet chosen.

All of the selections, sources said, would be unveiled live on television the Sunday night of the final regular-season games.

Currently, two teams from each league play a winner-take-all wild-card game, and the winner faces the team with the league's best record.

The appeal of the changes, according to the New York Post, which first reported on the possibility, is twofold. It could increase fan interest and could benefit MLB via a richer television-rights package.

Any proposal would have to be negotiated with the players' association. The current collective bargaining agreement runs through the 2021 season.

"Expanding the playoffs in a sensible way is something worth discussing when part of a much more comprehensive conversation about the current state of our game," union head Tony Clark said in a statement.

The winners of the wild-card series would advance to the divisional round.

24 teams in the playoffs would be even better. Then we could sell more TV ad time, more tickets, and more $10 beers in the stadiums.

Playoff baseball in December in Boston anybody? Maybe the World Series could compete with the New Year's Day bowl games.

[BigTex]

The season doesn't need to be any longer. They could always shorten the regular season but I don't think that will happen.

[BigTex]

Ouch

[Mark]

The Rangers are supposed to be in Seattle opening day, but it is now possible that game will be moved somewhere outside the state of Washington...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/03/ ... dgers.html

[crocmommy]

No baseball for anyone now. Argh...

[Ric]

So, if Memorial Day is the target, will they come back for a couple of weeks of tuneups? If That's the case, at least it'll be in the forseeable future. Will there be a lot of day night double headers to get us to 140 game schedule? Will they pick up the schedule when they get back at the point we would have been at? Or will they redo the whole schedule?

[grouchy]

So, if Memorial Day is the target, will they come back for a couple of weeks of tuneups? If That's the case, at least it'll be in the forseeable future. Will there be a lot of day night double headers to get us to 140 game schedule? Will they pick up the schedule when they get back at the point we would have been at? Or will they redo the whole schedule?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[crocmommy]

I'm guessing there will end up being a shortened season.

[Mark]

Taylor Hearn and Scott Heineman have both been sent to the minors.