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    The 2013 Texas Rangers: A Shutdown Ending
    The 2013 Texas Rangers: A Shutdown Ending
    The 2013 Texas Rangers: A Shutdown Ending
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    The 2013 Texas Rangers: A Shutdown Ending

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    The writing staff at shutdowninning.com brings you complete coverage of the 2013 Texas Rangers season, and more. Every detail of the season is captured for posterity with never-before-read material. The foreword from Jamey Newberg is a must-read for every Rangers fan and loyal reader of Shutdown Inning. The book also includes the Shutdown Inning staff's choices for player awards on the Rangers, a Top Ten Prospect list, and an outlook on the team's 40-man roster headed into the 2013-14 offseason.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShutdown Inning
    Release dateNov 18, 2013
    ISBN9781310823732
    The 2013 Texas Rangers: A Shutdown Ending
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    Shutdown Inning

    ShutdownInning.com exists to educate and inform its readers about the Texas Rangers, and baseball in general. The writings you'll find from SDI authors range from passionate to analytical to entertaining in nature.

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      The 2013 Texas Rangers - Shutdown Inning

      The 2013 Texas Rangers: A Shutdown Ending

      From the writers at Shutdown Inning

      Published by Shutdown Inning at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Shutdown Inning

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Offseason

      Spring Training

      March and April

      May

      June

      July

      August

      September

      Closing

      The Statistics

      End of Season Awards

      Top Ten Prospects

      40-Man Roster Thoughts

      About the Authors

      Foreword

      I started writing about the Texas Rangers so long ago that my teenager wasn’t yet born, Y2K wasn’t yet a thing, and neither was the word blog. Outside the Fourth Estate, there was a relatively small handful of folks around the country writing exhaustively (some would suggest purposelessly, if not impudently) about their baseball team, usually in spare time that would have otherwise been devoted to watching baseball anyway and probably writing about it on some message board or other, as the concept of the sports bar and the water cooler began expanding to this new brand of cyber-turf whose possibilities were increasingly proving to be just about endless.

      When I started writing, the Rangers were a playoff team. No, not those Rangers playoff teams. Those Rangers playoff teams. The ones that got fed regularly to the Yankees, who methodically used an October set against Texas to warm up for the big boys.

      Shortly after that, the Rangers were a terrible team. One that featured baseball’s best player and not nearly enough else.

      But the club got better. Gradually so, as it should be. It got better in the front office and in scouting and in player development and on the business side and on the field and on the scoreboard and in the standings.

      And as the Rangers improved, the blogging community here, I dare say, got stronger at just as impressive a rate, both in the number of places a Rangers fan could go to get commentary outside the mainstream media and in the quality of those options.

      Outside this market (and occasionally in it), folks doubted that the Rangers did their thing in a baseball town. Lots of you knew better. And looked for every place you could find to dig deeper on the Great Game and the Rangers’ increasingly relevant place in it.

      I found Shutdown Inning in 2011, shortly after the launch of the project. They were far from the first Rangers blog out there, and in fact by time they jumped into the fray, Texas had established itself as one of the best teams in baseball, and already one of the ones most written about.

      But there was something a little more energetic about SDI’s work. Sometimes the slant was sabermetric, other times clearly not; sometimes deep-digging in its analysis, other times bordering on goofy. But it had a singular energy, one shared by its roster of writers that has now swelled to 15.

      Once strictly a repository of the written baseball word, SDI now supplements its output with regular podcasts and, here, its second annual end-of-year book about the Texas Rangers.

      Having published 14 of those myself (this winter is the first since the one following the 1999 season in which I haven’t written one), I know that you have to be very driven and more than a little bit crazy to willingly follow a full seven months, if not more, of nearly daily writing about baseball with a couple more months of insane scheduling to get a book out.

      Whenever people used to tell me they were glad, with the baseball season over, that I could finally get some rest or reacquaint myself with a weight room or a novel, I’d generally smile and choose not to correct them. The task that I know the SDI team took on in getting this book out since the season ended is one I eventually gave up trying to explain myself. But believe me: I have a ton of respect for the work these guys and women have not only done to put together this book for a second straight year, but also committed voluntarily to do. It’s two different things.

      Your pro sports team doesn’t get better every year. It just doesn’t work that way. The 2013 season wasn’t quite as good for Texas as the 2012 season, which wasn’t quite as good as 2011.

      But the quality of the baseball writing in this market, both in the mainstream media and the blogosphere, keeps getting better. Shutdown Inning is a big reason why.

      As Texas enters the off-season, poised to make impact changes to a roster that’s won at least 90 games four straight years, you can count me among those who believes 2014 will be better than 2013.

      But it’s with even greater conviction that I believe the baseball fan in Rangers Nation will get even better product next year than it did this year, as has been the case for the last decade-plus. Giving some of your baseball time to SDI is a real good way to stack those odds in your favor.

      Jamey Newberg

      The Newberg Report

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      Offseason

      By Peter Ellwood

      The 2013 offseason began earlier than expected for the Texas Rangers. After consecutive trips to the World Series in 2010 and 2011, the 2012 Rangers looked like another team that could put together a similar run. However, it was not to be, as the 2012 season ended with a historic collapse and a one-game dismissal from postseason play.

      Despite the disappointing end to 2012, it did not instigate the overhaul of the entire ball club. Looking at how the Rangers’ roster was positioned for 2013 before making a single offseason move, there was still a strong core of talent. However, there were also several key players hitting the free agent market.

      Texas Rangers 40-man roster entering the 2013 offseason:

      A Hero Fallen

      The beginning of the offseason would be dominated by Josh Hamilton; not just for the Rangers but for virtually all of Major League Baseball. Hamilton’s 2012 season ranged from hitting four home runs in a game to completely whiffing on a routine fly ball in Oakland that became the lightning rod of the Rangers’ late season collapse. Hamilton’s offseason would be no less volatile.

      After Texas lost its 163rd game in 2012 to the Orioles in

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