Lifelong Rangers fan with a passion for the farm system. When I’m not covering minor league baseball, I’m enjoying time with my family and exploring the Rangers' next big stars.
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It appears the Rangers have started releasing minor leaguers as expected. Nothing appears official right now but the beat writers reported a couple of days ago that this was expected. Luis Asuncion tweeted that he was notified yesterday of his release. He spent last season with the Spokane Indians, the
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The Draft will begin on Wednesday, June 10 at 7 p.m. ET
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Teams had an agreement to pay their minor league players $400 per week. The agreement was due to expire at the end of this month.
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In a world full of change, we can usually expect it. Baseball fans are seeing plenty of change in 2020 since the shutdown. MLB's commissioner, Rob Manfred has been a busy man during the shutdown. Probably for all the wrong reasons according to alot of baseball purists. MLB
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2020 Texas Rangers Bowman First Edition cards are showing up in breaks and eBay. 2020 Bowman First Editions are in high demand as a lot of people are coming back to the hobby of collecting cards. After delaying the release of Bowman Draft this year, this is the next best
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Diosbel Arias, 23, primarily plays the shortstop position in the Texas Rangers farm system but he has played every position in the infield besides catcher. Arias stands at 6'2 and is around 190 lbs. The Texas Rangers signed Diosbel Arias in July of 2017 when he was just
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Predictions are fun; especially when we are stuck at home in quarantine waiting for baseball to return. I continue to hope there will be some sort of minor league season this year. I thought it would be fun to make my own line-up with the current players showing on their
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I will blame it on the Coronavirus for taking the fight out of MiLB to keep more than 120 minor league teams. It has been reported that MiLB is expected to agree to the plan to reduce the number of teams during the teleconference tomorrow. This is a far cry
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Rona isn't keeping the Frisco RoughRiders from announcing any new partnerships. A couple of days ago, they announced a new partnership with Hop and Sting. Hop and Sting is a local company and they are sponsoring the bullpen. The Hop and Sting brewery (4.6 Google rating) is
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Until recently, I haven't touched a baseball card since I was in my early teens. I was never a huge collector but always had some Nolan Ryan cards on hand. I never lost touch with the love of the game of baseball though. My mom was always my
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Some bit of good news to come out of this coronavirus pandemic is the generosity of certain people. Shin-Soo Choo is going to donate $1,000 to each of the minor league players in the Texas Rangers organization. So for the math, that is 191 minor league players times $1,
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I miss baseball. You miss baseball. We all miss baseball. The Rangers option Taylor Hearn and Scott Heineman to Triple-A Triple-A Nashville on what was supposed to be Opening Day. Interesting move, but purely procedural. This does not impact their chances to make opening day roster. They can be recalled