Hub City Spartanburgers
The Hub City Spartanburgers are the High-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, competing in the South Atlantic League starting in 2025. Based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the team represents the community as part of Minor League Baseball (MiLB). Fifth Third Park, the Spartanburgers’ upcoming home stadium, is scheduled to open in 2025. It will feature seating for 5,000 fans, offering a modern and family-friendly atmosphere for baseball enthusiasts.
Texas Rangers Prospect Maxton Martin Named Carolina League All-Star
Texas Rangers prospect — outfielder Maxton Martin has been named to the Carolina League All-Star team at the designated hitter position. The 20-year-old was a Texas Rangers' 11th-round pick (321st overall) in the 2023 draft out of Southridge High School in Kennewick, Washington. In his 102 games with the Low-A Hickory Crawdads, Martin compiled an impressive stat line: * Batting Average: .259 * On-Base Percentage: .343 * Slugging Percentage: .440 * OPS: .783 * Home Runs: 12 * Triples: 6
(F)arm Breakdown: Leandro Lopez vs the Rome Emperors
I watched every pitch of Leandro Lopez’s start last night so you didn't have to. If you haven't yet you should check out the profile I wrote last week about Lopez which also included a breakdown of his weather-shortened outing. As a refresher on Lopez, the right-handed pitcher out of the Dominican Republic signed in the Texas Rangers 2021 international free agent class. After spending the ’21 and ’22 seasons playing in the Dominican Summer League he played stateside in 2023 at Single-A Down Eas
Hub City salvages a rough day for rangers' Affiliates
The Rangers' Affiliates combined to go 1-2 on Sunday, July 6. The Round Rock Express game got rained out, so that was the reason for only three games being played. Hickory Crawdads The Hickory Crawdads suffered a big loss as they fall to the Kannapolis Ballers (White Sox) 9-2. It was a rough start for David Hagaman, he allowed four runs on two hits in 1.2 innings while allowing two walks and struck out two. All of the damage came in the second inning when he walked a pair while allowing both
Get to know the next up and coming arm in the rangers farm system: Leandro Lopez
A pitch-by-pitch breakdown of Leandro Lopez’s start last night against the Winston-Salem Dash: I watched every pitch of Leandro Lopez’s start last night. So, who is Leandro Lopez? Where did he come from? Why is he bursting onto the scene this year? What does his future look like? Let’s talk about his origins, and get into his outing last night and my observations of each at bat. Leandro Lopez (the artist formerly known as Leandro Calderon) is a right-handed pitcher out of the Dominican Republi
Rangers promote rising prospect Davalillo to Frisco
Evan Grant reported Monday afternoon that 22-year-old SP David Davalillo (Rangers No. 29 Prospect) is being promoted to Double-A Frisco. Davalillo has been a rising star for the Spartanburgers going back to last season when he had a 1.88 ERA in 110.1 IP while pitching for Hickory and the DownEast Ducks(now the SpartanBurgers) and although wasn’t initially put on the Frisco roster to start the 2025 season, he was an early candidate to make his way up to Double-A this year and hasn’t disappoint