That’s an angle I hadn’t considered but makes a ton of sense! The longer tenured local prospect writers are pretty realistic, I think. But theres a certain type of fan prospect poster that is heavy in the Rangers ecosystem for sure. I never realized that was unique to the team, so thats enlightening

Why do you think there’s that split? Is it just because their system is heavy with interestingish arms, even though none have actually popped in the majors yet? That seems to be the big split I’ve seen, that for all the praise their best result is Leiter not being a reliever. Or improving Rosario

I’ve been surprised to see Caden Scarborough jump onto a few top 100 lists this year, but BP seems to be the low publication on him. Any big flags y’all are seeing that kept him off?

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.

Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

I’m a fan of the Rangers so there’s the division rivals aspect. And having all of baseball fawn over the Mariners 20 years of ineptitude has been annoying.

*have not been

Former Yankees greats (looking at Mariano) have been covering themselves in glory lately either. Biggest surprise for me about a baseball player’s politics was learning Michael Young donated to Obama

Nothing will ever make me wish for that much Brock Holt or David Dahl or Khris Davis again

Sorry, banning them from talking to recruits for 14 weeks not 14 months. Still much larger than those punishments usually are

Banning them from talking to recruits for over a year seems like the more notable punishment

88% accuracy on average meets the ‘good’ criteria for me. That’s up 5% in a decade!

What does the team think was the cause of García’s downturn last year and what are they hoping he’ll do to fix those issues?

pounding the sign

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Alpine has a nice local bookstore (Front Street Books) and lots of good restaurants too. The Reata and Cow Dog are good