Charles Golden
The Hub City Spartanburgers Week in Review
The Hub City Spartanburgers, the high A affiliate if your Texas Rangers, have made it through their first full week of games and are about to have their first ever official home game of the 2025 season tonight. They’re currently 5-4, tied for the South Division lead in the South Atlantic League and have scored 39 runs while allowing 33 runs. It doesn’t take a mathematician to notice that they haven’t exactly been an offensive juggernaut through the first 9 games, averaging just over 4 runs per
Texas Rangers Roster Projection Volume 1
The 2025 season for the Texas Rangers is still in its infancy stages with just over a week completed in spring training but expectations are high and for good reason. The veteran core of this team is as experienced and talented as just about any Rangers team in history and several youngsters are poised to build on promising beginnings to their career. The Rangers opened camp with 65 guys, the standard 40 man roster and 25 non-roster invitees, but cuts are coming in the near future and over the n
Introducing the Hub City Spartanburgers
For the first time since 2020 the Texas Rangers experienced a shakeup in their minor league affiliates with the Hickory Crawdads shifting from the High-A club to the Single-A club and a new face enters the fold at High-A. The Hub City Spartanburgers are an entirely new team and organization but the sport of baseball has been a big part of the history of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Even though the city hasn’t been the home to an official minor league team in nearly three decades its home to one
Texas Rangers: Case for a 6 Man Rotation
The Texas Rangers are set to enter 2025 with one of the most talented and deepest groups of starting pitchers, for them, in recent memory. They have a legit top of the rotation ace and eight guys with MLB starting experience but this is also a fairly unique group that could require a fairly creative plan to get them through the season. With several guys coming off significant injuries it’s likely that load management will be a priority so that as many guys as possible are available come Septembe