Texas Rangers MiLB Site
By way of making up for my last post, and as a public service to my fellow Ranger fans, here's a link you might want to bookmark. It's the MiLB site for the Rangers, and there you can get news on our minor league teams & players - more importantly, you can get updated stats on players on a daily basis if you choose. I personally look at all the rosters about once a week - gives me a pretty good feel on who's doing well, etc.
Disclaimer about minor league stats, in particular pitching: it's hard to really know how a player is doing by looking at ERA, batting average, OBP, or any single stat alone. For pitchers, I try to look at their hits/walks/Ks to innings pitched ratio. For batters, I look a lot at OBP and OPS, but I dig a bit deeper and look at walks & Ks as well. Bottom line is you can't always look at player X and say he's having a bad year because he's hitting .225....his OBP may be .375 with a low strike out rate...that could improve over time, especially with really young players (Max Cauley, for example). On the flip side, I never get excited by breakout seasons from players in their mid to late 20s if they have 5+ years of minor league experience. There aren't many Nelson Cruz's out there that figure it out at 28.
Enjoy!
By way of making up for my last post, and as a public service to my fellow Ranger fans, here's a link you might want to bookmark. It's the MiLB site for the Rangers, and there you can get news on our minor league teams & players - more importantly, you can get updated stats on players on a daily basis if you choose. I personally look at all the rosters about once a week - gives me a pretty good feel on who's doing well, etc.
Disclaimer about minor league stats, in particular pitching: it's hard to really know how a player is doing by looking at ERA, batting average, OBP, or any single stat alone. For pitchers, I try to look at their hits/walks/Ks to innings pitched ratio. For batters, I look a lot at OBP and OPS, but I dig a bit deeper and look at walks & Ks as well. Bottom line is you can't always look at player X and say he's having a bad year because he's hitting .225....his OBP may be .375 with a low strike out rate...that could improve over time, especially with really young players (Max Cauley, for example). On the flip side, I never get excited by breakout seasons from players in their mid to late 20s if they have 5+ years of minor league experience. There aren't many Nelson Cruz's out there that figure it out at 28.
Enjoy!
Jimbo Franchione
