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The Hub City Spartanburgers Week in Review: Vol 2
Hub City Spartanburgers News and Updates

The Hub City Spartanburgers Week in Review: Vol 2

Your High-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, the Hub City Spartanburgers, are off today but are coming off their first home stand of the season. They battled the Bowling Green Hot Rods, who were tied atop the standings with them, going 3-3 over the 6 games and are in a three way tie for 1st in the south division of the South Atlantic League. Overall they have a +12 run differential, tops in their division, while having scored the most runs and allowed the fewest. Last week we touched on the odd
The Hub City Spartanburgers Week in Review
Around the farm

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
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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
Hub City Spartanburgers News and Updates

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
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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
Can Brock Porter and Abi Ortiz Bounce Back in 2025?
The Farm Report

Can Brock Porter and Abi Ortiz Bounce Back in 2025?

The path of a prospect is rarely linear as guys learn how to work through struggles, league adjustments, higher levels of competition and the grind of a professional season. Two guys who certainly exemplify that for the Texas Rangers last year were Brock Porter and Abimelec Ortiz. After the 2023 season both of these guys were top 10 prospects in the Rangers farm system according multiple prospect lists but going into 2025 both of these guys are buried among guys often thought of as organizationa