Archive for February 4th, 2010

Big League Stew Blogbook: Texas Rangers

The BLS Blogbook aims to map the online information terrain by providing a separate web directory for each team. The product below is a result of submitted entries by team-specific bloggers and compiled information from the Big League Stew staff.Please subscribe, follow and bookmark to your heart's content. If you're a blogger who would like to be listed, please visit this post for further instructions.

Tom Hicks Exploring Sale of NHL’s Stars After Selling Rangers (Bloomberg)

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks is exploring a possible sale of the National Hockey League team, less than two weeks after agreeing to sell baseball’s Texas Rangers.

Texas Rangers catching prospect Tomas Telis out for the year (Dallas Morning News)

Rangers catching prospect Tomas Telis, who made his U.S. debut last year at the age of 17, is expected to miss all of 2010 after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.

The Breakdown: A look at Baseball America's top 30 Texas Rangers minor league prospects

Received the 2010 Baseball America Prospect Handbook in the mail yesterday. If you are a minor league junkie and don't have one, I can't endorse it enough. Lots of good stuff and BA remains the industry leader in analyzing the draft and minor league organizations.

State of the Enemy - Texas Rangers

One of the most interesting stories of the 2009 baseball season was the Texas Rangers. Picked by most (including your man Freddy) to be at the back of the AL West they had a fine season and even led the division as late as July 10th.From there the Rangers stumbled a bit going 39-38 and getting overwhelmed by an Angel team in the midst of a strong finishing kick (50-28). As 2010 dawns with the Angels having lost several key players and the Mariners still unproven the Rangers are being consider…

Uniform Numbers

As we creep closer to the start of spring training (it's THIS MONTH!), I've finally started bringing my website up to speed. I'm unfortunately still unemployed from last May, and I found, despite the free time, I wasn't always in the mood to work on my websites.