I’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 up in the air with me having a medical condition and covid still going on. But whether I’m there or not, I’ll be following the team for sure.
Go Rangers!
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’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for the last several seasons (2020 will be the 13th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here. If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.
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’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially. Here goes:
The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.
Total players in 2020: 50
Total pitchers used in 2020: 25
Total position players used in 2020: 25
Total players making major league debut: 9
#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, Leody Taveras, Rob Refsnyder, Todd Frazier, Rougned Odor, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Elvis Andrus, Ronald Guzman, Robinson Chirinos, Jose Trevino, Jeff Mathis.
Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded
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I’ve seen a lot of people ask “why isn’t the Rangers game on”, or “Why am I postponed” when it says it’s on Fox Sports Southwest.
The answer is you’re not looking at the schedule right!
Less sarcastically, there’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’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.
UPDATED August 2020
Here’s an updated image the Rangers posted for the 2020 season:
UPDATED March 2018
Here’s some info I’ve gleaned from around the web on how to see Fox Sports Southwest PLUS on various carriers. Mostly D/FW, but some others..
Television:
Streaming Services:
You can also use credentials from most of these providers to log in via the Fox Sports Go mobile app.
Apparently, Time Warner Cable does NOT carry an HD feed of FSSW+. That’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.
If you know it’s on another carrier that I don’t have listed, please email me about it.
Updated a page on my Rangers site tonight. It’s the Pocket Schedule archive. I hadn’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 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.
A quick note that I’ve upgraded the server here on Rangerfans to use https, so you should get the secure padlock when viewing the content.
It’s not super urgent here because I don’t have anything for you to log into, but still, it can’t hurt. :)
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’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…
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’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. [Read more…]
Those who know me know I’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’m back with another one. It’s about pricing of seats at the now “old” Ballpark in Arlington.
Earlier this season, when talking about the new ballpark in the Facebook group I’m in, folks snarked in with “Everything will be going up” in price, with the implication that if we didn’t have a new park, prices wouldn’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’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’t have gone up always bugged me. However, that thought led me to wonder…. 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 “around” later). So prices went up for sure – but the path and frequency they took to get there was lost to me.
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’s a ridiculous amount of research – it took me most of the year to complete it. I had access to some old documents that I had saved from the 90’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.
So that’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.. [Read more…]
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’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’m going to break them down into groups of players – not by position, but by their contractual status.
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). [Read more…]
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’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for the last several seasons (2019 will be the 12th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here. If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.
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’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 25 man roster officially. So here goes.
The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.
Total players in 2019: 52
Total pitchers used in 2019: 33
Total position players used in 2019: 19
Total players making major league debut: 14
#25 to #1 (no particular order): Kyle Bird, Jesse Chavez, Kyle Dowdy, 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.
Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded
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There is a very cool article from Jayson Stark on The Athletic now. It’s very cool, very detailed, and talks about the coming major changes to MLB. We’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 & NL leagues into one single large league.
Now he just doesn’t throw out ideas without backup. That’s what social media & Facebook groups are for (haha). He has well thought out remarks on all of this. Unfortunately, it’s behind the paywall, so you can’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’s own local service, and when he started with the Athletic, my subscription carried over. If you use my link, you can get 25% off a subscription, and if you sign up, I get $10 from them, so go – check it out.
Anyway, I’m gonna touch base on all of what he said with my own thoughts on it. [Read more…]
