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I remember all my life Fernando Valenzuela Jersey , Raining down as cold as ice, A shadow of a man, A face through a window, Crying in the night,te Grathoff asks the tough question: who’s the fastest Royal?Lee Judge tries to read between the lines on the Whit Merrifield contract. Full disclosure: the author of this post did not read the article. Follow the link at your own peril.At Royals Farm Report, Alex Duvall writes about their fourth-ranked prospect in the Royals’ farm system, Khalil Lee:He also wrote up #5 prospect Nicky Lopez. And he Periscoped a prospect convo with Drake. I’ll just assume they talked about Drake’s days on Degrassi.At BP, Doug Thorburn writes about why we should all be buying Aaron Nola stock.Jeff Sullivan marvels at the Diamondbacks’ plan to create a center fielder out of Ketel Marte.At the Athletic, where Grant Brisbee just landed [obligatory follow this link to subscribe while also giving me ten Amabucks), Eno Sarris writes about how recent trends have flipped baseball’s conventional wisdom on first base and shortstop. Here’s this. Do with it what you may.The Frederick News Post published Michael Hunley’s special Alternative Oscars, you know for films that actually deserved the accolades.People be dying from the cold. Just stay in and watch Mandy, people.You can now watch the Mandy trailer backed by “Mandy” which many of you wanted all along.The Criterion Channel will launch April 8. Here’s an interview with Ryan Hansen and Rawson Marshall Thurber http://www.dodgersfanproshop.com/authentic-max-muncy-jersey , the titular star and creator (respectively) of Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, the first season of which is now streaming free on YouTube as the second season is about to start airing on YouTube Red.Looper runs down the most surprising Rotten Tomatoes scores of 2018. Guess what 91%er makes the cut?The song of the day is “Evan Finds The Third Room” by Khruangbin: The Rangers have fallen on hard times."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Chicago Cubs recapsChicago Cubs minor leaguesChicago Cubs essaysChicago Cubs game threadsWrigley Field renovationsFull archiveLibrary Bleed Cubbie Blue Community GuidelinesCurrent time in ChicagoBCB Specials & Site InfoWinter 2019 music threadsCubs StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Cubs newsYahoo Cubs team pageYahoo Cubs reportYahoo Cubs depth chartYahoo Cubs transactionsYahoo Cubs photosOdds Shop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub 鉁昁now your enemyKnow your enemy: Texas RangersNew,14commentsThe Rangers have fallen on hard times.CSTShareTweetShareShareKnow your enemy: Texas RangersSurprise Stadium, spring home of the RangersMark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SportsThe Texas Rangers had five playoff seasons in the seven years from 2010-16 and were in two World Series, losing both of them. They are one of seven franchises who has never won a World Series (Brewers, Mariners, Rockies, Padres, Rays, Expos/Nationals are the others).Since they won 95 games in 2016, they’ve gone rapidly downhill, to 84 losses in 2017 and 95 in 2018. Remember when Las Vegas product Joey Gallo was supposed to be almost as good as Las Vegas product Kris Bryant? Gallo Kenley Jansen Jersey , who is almost two years younger than Bryant, has hit a ton of home runs — back-to-back 40-HR seasons — but you don’t hear much about him because he really cannot hit much otherwise. He hit .209 in 2017 and .206 in 2018 and in both years had more homers than singles. He walks a lot, but strikes out way too much (207 times in 2018).The Rangers just seem to have a bunch of guys who are not quite good enough to be regulars, but have to be anyway. Rougned Odor is a decent player, and so is Elvis Andrus, but they’re just plugging away, not stars. There really isn’t a star player left on this team now that Adrian Beltre has retired. Plus, without Beltre, we are no longer going to see this:Not only was Beltre fun, he was a great player who’s going to the Hall of Fame. Even at age 39 he was a 2.2 bWAR player and there’s an argument to be made that he was the best third baseman of all time.The pitching staff? Well, there’s, uh... Mike Minor. Who was pretty good last year. And there’s http://www.dodgersfanproshop.com/authentic-max-muncy-jersey , uh... Lance Lynn. Who is now on his third team since he left the Cardinals. And there’s, uh... former sort-of-Cub Drew Smyly. Who has not thrown a big-league pitch since 2017. This rotation is... not good.The bullpen? Well, there’s Jesse Chavez, who got a nice two-year deal for $8 million off the two good months he had for the Cubs. He had literally never been that good, and likely won’t be again. I wish him well, though. The 2019 Texas Rangers are not a good baseball team. They lost 95 games in 2018. They have a new manager (Chris Woodward) and coaching staff and are likely going to focus on development this year. They could be a 100-loss club in 2019.The Cubs open the 2019 season visiting the Rangers in Globe Life Park. Opening Day is Thursday, March 28, and the teams will play again on March 30 and 31. The Cubs last visited Arlington in 2010 and went 2-1 in that series, and all-time are 8-7 against the Rangers in interleague play.