Details and news below. Also, read through the comments, there’s several other things mentioned there too.
Here is MLB’s official “FAQ for 2022 Season”: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2022-season-faq. More after the break.
I’m not going to get into it here, as it makes me sad. But the opening of the 2022 MLB season has been canceled (not postponed, but CANCELED) due to labor strife. Could be more, but for now it’s just the first two series.
The Rangers issued a press release this afternoon about what’s happening ticket wise with those who have bought tickets – either individually or as a season ticket holder of some variant. Here’s that press release:
For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 1, 2022
TEXAS RANGERS UPDATED TICKET INFORMATION
Major League Baseball has yet to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association. Since it is important to have four weeks of Spring Training for players to safely prepare for the season, Opening Day of the 2022 MLB season, previously scheduled for Thursday, March 31, is being delayed. The first two series have been removed from the schedule, and, pending an agreement, the regular season for the Texas Rangers will now start on Friday, April 8 at Toronto.
The Rangers are very disappointed that we are not able to start the 2022 regular season as scheduled, and we apologize for the inconvenience this causes you. Major League Baseball is working to get the game back on the field as soon as possible.
This is certainly not a situation we wanted. We understand just how important it is to you that we get baseball back on the field. Major League Baseball’s priority now, as it has been, is to get fans in their seats as quickly as possible.
If you purchased individual tickets to a cancelled 2022 Texas Rangers game at Globe Life Field through texasrangers.com, a full refund will be automatically processed to the method of payment used at time of purchase, including service fees (if applicable). No action is needed to start the refund process.
If you purchased individual tickets for the originally scheduled 2022 regular season opener on Thursday, March 31 against the New York Yankees, those tickets will be valid for the Rangers’ 2022 home opener, when that date has been determined. Fans holding tickets for March 31 may also exchange those tickets for another 2022 game or receive a full refund.
2022 season ticket holders with full, half, or 20-game plans will be contacted by their individual ticket sales representatives to discuss their options, which include receiving a credit for cancelled games, which can be used for future 2022 game purchases including individual, group, and nightly suite rental tickets or 2023 season ticket renewals or receiving a refund for cancelled games.
For more information, please go to texasrangers.com/tickets or call 972RANGERS.
We thank you for your patience and can’t wait to see you Globe Life Field in 2022.
The following 2022 Texas Rangers regular season games are impacted by today’s MLB announcement:
Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for the last several seasons (2021 will be the 14th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here. If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.
Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2020. I am going to count guys who get called up, but don’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially. Here goes:
The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.
Total players in 2021: 53
Total pitchers used in 2021: 29
Total position players used in 2021: 24
Total players making major league debut: 12
#26 to #1 (in alphabetical order): Kolby Allard, Kohei Arihara, Wes Benjamin, Matt Bush, Kyle Cody, Charlie Culberson, David Dahl, Brett de Geus, Dane Dunning, Mike Foltynewicz, Joey Gallo, Kyle Gibson, Ronald Guzman, Taylor Hearn, Jonah Heim, Brock Holt, Ian Kennedy, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, John King, Nate Lowe, Jordan Lyles, Josh Sborz, Nick Solak, Leody Taveras, Jose Trevino, Eli White
Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded
Old Versions of this Page:
[ 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 ]
This isn’t Rangers related, but spotted this cool clip on the MLB site this morning. I’m also testing their new embedding of video clips feature at the same time.
I’m ready to go with my site. The uniform number area on my site here is all updated with the numbers for this season. Looks like there will be a 162 game season this year, vs whatever that was that passed for a season last year. Whether or not I go to the games is still up in the air with me having a medical condition and covid still going on. But whether I’m there or not, I’ll be following the team for sure.
Go Rangers!
Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for the last several seasons (2020 will be the 13th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here. If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.
Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2020. I am going to count guys who get called up, but don’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially. Here goes:
The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.
Total players in 2020: 50
Total pitchers used in 2020: 25
Total position players used in 2020: 25
Total players making major league debut: 9
#30 to #1 (no particular order): Lance Lynn, Mike Minor, Corey Kluber, Kyle Gibson, Jordan Lyles, Jose Leclerc, Jonathan Hernandez, Jesse Chavez, Edinson Volquez, Nick Goody, Luke Farrell, Ian Gibaut, Joe Palumbo, Kolby Allard, Willie Calhoun, Danny Santana, Joey Gallo, Shin-Soo Choo, Nick Solak, Scott Heineman, Leody Taveras, Rob Refsnyder, Todd Frazier, Rougned Odor, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Elvis Andrus, Ronald Guzman, Robinson Chirinos, Jose Trevino, Jeff Mathis.
Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded
Old Versions of this Page:
[ 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 ]
I’ve seen a lot of people ask “why isn’t the Rangers game on”, or “Why am I postponed” when it says it’s on Fox Sports Southwest.
The answer is you’re not looking at the schedule right!
Less sarcastically, there’s a difference between Fox Sports Southwest and Fox Sports Southest PLUS. Basically, PLUS is a spare channel that things get shown on when there’s too many things to show at once. Like for example a regular season Rangers game and a playoff Stars game. The playoff Stars game will take precedence, and the Rangers game will get bumped to the Plus channel.
UPDATED August 2020
Here’s an updated image the Rangers posted for the 2020 season:
UPDATED March 2018
Here’s some info I’ve gleaned from around the web on how to see Fox Sports Southwest PLUS on various carriers. Mostly D/FW, but some others..
Television:
Streaming Services:
You can also use credentials from most of these providers to log in via the Fox Sports Go mobile app.
Apparently, Time Warner Cable does NOT carry an HD feed of FSSW+. That’s pretty insane in this day and age. I also think that Charter in Denton also only has an SD video feed. If someone finds out otherwise on these two channels, please let me know.
If you know it’s on another carrier that I don’t have listed, please email me about it.
Updated a page on my Rangers site tonight. It’s the Pocket Schedule archive. I hadn’t updated it in a couple of seasons, but I bought it up to date now.
Tonight I added the 2020 pocket schedule (which was based off the original 162 game season), three 2019 variants, and three 2018 variants.
I have at least one variant from every year since 1972 on that page, so take a look if you never have and check out some old pocket schedule images.
A quick note that I’ve upgraded the server here on Rangerfans to use https, so you should get the secure padlock when viewing the content.
It’s not super urgent here because I don’t have anything for you to log into, but still, it can’t hurt. :)
I took a tour of the new Rangers park earlier this week, on Monday in the first hour public tours were available. I tried to get the FIRST tour, which was Monday at 10AM, but that and the second tour were already sold out within 3 minutes, I got the third one at 10:45AM. So off I went to Arlington, a drive I’ve made out I-30 a boatload of times over the years, but this one was odd. Going to our new park for the first time since it was completed, but NOT for a baseball game. This is the story of what I saw…
I got there a little early, and I looked around the gift shop (which seems larger overall, but the space inbetween items is still just a small as the old place. They didn’t use the additional space in the gift shop to make it easier to walk in there, they used it to put more stuff in there. [Read more…]
