Lone Star Ball, a Texas Rangers community

Evan Grant has a blog post up this morning touching on the pitching v. fielding argument, and saying that the Rangers need to improve the pitching -- and in particular, start giving up fewer walks...

Ian Kinsler is going to undergo season-ending surgery for his hernia. Nothing more for me to say.  

Real solid outing from Brandon McCarthy last night...I missed the first few innings, but from what I saw, he looked like the guy the Rangers thought they were getting when they made that Christmas...

Evan Grant's game story talks about the frustrations of the month of August and how they've taken a toll on this team.  In particular, he takes Gerald Laird and Ron Washington to task for arguing...

Sigh.  Matt Harrison is frustrating.  And he's going to have to start missing more bats if he is going to stick. Richard Durrett's game story is about Hank Blalock returning to the lineup at...

You know, I think I'm about ready for the season to end.  Everybody's hurt, the bullpen is gassed, the rotation is a mess, the team is losing games...I'm ready to be done with 2008 and move on to...

Dark day today.  The Rangers waste a nice performance from Scott Feldman, and even worse, Ian Kinsler appears to be done for the year. That really sucks. Kinsler is supposed to see a specialist...

Dave Cameron has several items up on Fangraphs, doing a list of the 50 players with the most trade value in baseball right now. The top five goes Longoria, H. Ramirez, Sizemore, Wright, and...

Bob Sturm crunches the numbers on Ian Kinsler vs. Alfonso Soriano at second base, and has come around to the view that Kinsler's range -- unlike Soriano's -- is good enough to make him worth...

I'm still sitting here trying to figure out why in the world you'd take the bat out of Ian Kinsler's hands in the 11th inning, in order to let Ramon Vazquez and Michael Young try to bring the...