Frisco RoughRiders are headed to the playoffs
The Texas Rangers have one of the better farm systems in baseball and it is starting to show. The Frisco RoughRiders feature quite a few of the top prospects on the farm and they needed to win one of their last three games to secure a spot spot in the Texas League playoffs. The RoughRiders are going to the post-season for first time since 2014 They won 11-6 over the Northwest Arkansas Naturals and now they are headed to the playoffs for the 1st time since 2014 when they finished with an 80-59
Texas Rangers assign 9 to Arizona Fall League
The Arizona Fall League is approaching and Opening Day is on October 3, 2022. The Texas Rangers have nine players that have been assigned to the Surprise Saguaros headlined by several of their top prospects including Aaron Zavala, Luisangel Acuña and Kumar Rocker. The nine players from the Texas Rangers organization on the 2022 Surprise Saguaros are: 1. INF Luisangel Acuña 2. UT Jayce Easley 3. C Cody Freeman 4. OF Trevor Hauver 5. LHP Jake Latz 6. RHP Kumar Rocker 7. RHP Nick Starr 8
Jonathan Ornelas has chance to break RoughRiders hit record
Jonathan Ornelas has a chance to break the RoughRiders single-season hits record (157) set by Joaquín Arias in the 2005 season. Ornelas has 152 hits on the season after going 3-for-5 tonight. In case you didn't remember, Juaquín Arias was part of the Alex Rodriguez trade to the Yankees. Arias was the player that completed the deal. Ornelas needs 5-hits to tie the record and 6 to break it with four games remaining in the regular season. Ornelas has had a special and impressive season. He's cu
Carter and Matthews make their AA debut
Evan Carter, Thomas Saggese and John Matthews were officially promoted to Double-A Frisco today. Each of them figure to play a big role this series to help the Riders get to the post-season. Evan Carter and John Matthews made their Double-A debuts tonight. The RoughRiders magic number for a spot in the post-season is now three games as Midland lost to Wichita 3-1. Jack Leiter, the top pitching prospect in the Texas Rangers organization, made the start for the RoughRiders. This was his 23rd out
Ricky Vanasco makes AA Debut
Frisco, TX - Ricky Vanasco was promoted from the High-A Hickory Crawdads to the Frisco RoughRiders on Friday September 9th. He got the starting nod as the RoughRiders continue their pursuit of a post-season spot. It also happened to be the RoughRiders last home-game of the season. Vanasco has long been a favorite of mine so I took the opportunity to go see him in person. A crowd of 5,086 got to see a little of everything from the RoughRiders. They saw good pitching, multiple home runs and a
Josh Jung hit a home run in his 1st MLB at bat
The Texas Rangers top position prospect, Josh Jung hit a home run in his 1st MLB at bat. His first at bat came in the bottom of the 3rd inning when he hit lead off blasted the home run on a 1-2 count. It went a projected 388 feet. Jung now becomes the 2nd player in Texas Rangers history to hit a home run in their first MLB at bat. The first player to accomplish that feat was Jurickson Profar nearly 10 years ago on September 12, 2012 against Cleveland. Profar was also the Rangers' number one
Los Quesos rally late for a 4-3 victory
The Frisco RoughRiders, playing as the Los Quesos Frisco, took down the Tulsa Drillers 4-3 on Thursday night from Riders Field. Trailing 2-0 into the fifth, the Riders rallied to win their much-needed second game in a row with the post-season on the line. Los Quesos got an outstanding outing from Cody Bradford and good relief pitching from Justin Slaten (H,3) who went 2 innings walk 2 strikeouts. And Grant Wolfram (S,2) who went 2 innings 2 hits, run, walk. 24-year-old Cody Bradford (W, 9-7)
Mason Englert wins Pitcher of Month
Texas Rangers pitching prospect, Mason Englert, as expected and predicted by me was named South Atlantic League Pitcher of Month of August! The 22-year-old Forney native was drafted by the Rangers in the 4th round (119 overall) of the 2018 draft. Mason won back-to-back Pitcher of the week awards in August! Mason had a 3-1 win-loss record in 24.2 innings. He only gave up 5 runs on 7 hits, 6 walks and 21 strikeouts and he held opposing batters to an impressive .086 average and 0.53 WHIP. Mason h