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Texas Rangers April Farm Report

With April wrapping up, it’s time to look back at the standouts, both positive and negative, through the first month of play down on the Texas Rangers’ farm system. There have definitely been surprises…Read More

Rangers Circle the Wagons, Tie Up Loose Ends

While the off season has been hard to call a success, considering our goals, it was not a failure either. I have read a lot of national speculation that the Rangers are not going to be back until 2014,…Read More

3 Prospects To Watch (And Watch Fall)

Since the trade deadline of 2007, it’s fair to say the Rangers have been one of the five most flush franchises in terms of firepower on the farm, in all of Major League Baseball. That year we exchanged…Read More

Searching For A Reason

If you believe everything the media tells you, then apparently Jon Daniels and the Rangers Front Office is adamant keeping Ian Kinsler and Mitch Moreland on the right side of the infield, which, in turn,…Read More

The Rangers Off-Season Award That Means More Than it Says

An interesting turn of events in the last week. Mike Olt was named the Rangers Minor League player of the Year. Here’s my take (and others too).  Olt was better statistically than Profar in several…Read More

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Cliff Lee Trade Still Makes Sense

Last summer, while it never came to a roar, there was quite a bit of buzz about the Rangers possibly…Read More

The Dominos Fell on the Texas Rangers

Nobody loves a good conspiracy theory more than me.  Baseball is famous for its collusion, umm excuse…Read More

Winter Meetings Wish List

The Rangers have officially arrived into their third full month of the offseason, and with only minor…Read More

Rangers Big Board: Infielders

Plenty to talk about that I will let the other great writers here cover.  I am wondering what’s going…Read More

Idle Hump Day Thoughts

I’ve been following the Rangers for almost 17 years now, since I was a six year-old boy. And though…Read More

What To Expect From The September Callups

Frustration. No, seriously. Like I mentioned earlier, the news of the call ups was well covered by Eric…Read More

Game 118: Rangers Lost in Blue Jay Way

After a much needed win the day before in New York, the Rangers have dropped game one of a three game…Read More

Game 112: Olt’s Well That Ends Well As Rangers Beat Tigers

Mike Olt has had a tough start to the Major Leagues. But one thing he has been able to do is get the…Read More

Game 109: Dempster Back On Track As Rangers Beat Red Sox

Ryan Dempster really worried a lot of Rangers fans in his first start with Texas. Most media members…Read More

Game 106: Scotty Be Good

Regression to the mean is so much fun when it goes this way. Scott Feldman was perceptively the worst…Read More

Game 104: Brand New Faces in All the Right Places

The Rangers topped the Angels tonight in a good ol’ fashioned Texas shootout. Read | Share

What Prince Fielder Means For Mike Olt

  Now that Yu Darvish is officially a Texas Ranger, the next free agent that many Rangers fans would…Read More

Farm Fishin’: Rangers in the Arizona Fall League

The Surprise Saguaros finished up the 2011 Arizona Fall League by losing to the Salt River Rafters in…Read More

Top Mid-Season Texas Rangers Prospects

With the Futures game this past week, I thought we should let you in on the Rangers future. I’m not…Read More

Jurickson Profar – Is He Due for a Promotion?

We’ve talked about Jurickson Profar before here on Nolan Writin, he continues to impress. Currently…Read More