{"id":562413,"date":"2026-02-09T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/562413\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:35:13","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-february-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/562413\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; February 09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Good morning. It\u2019s \u201cit\u2019s baseball season!\u201d season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is the beginning of the Skip Schumaker era that highlights the upcoming season for the Texas Rangers, so <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2F2026-spring-training-storylines\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says MLB dot com folks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Assuming he\u2019s not manning third base in Arlington by like June, R.J. Anderson writes that Sebastian Walcott is among the best bets to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/mlb-prospect-ranking-prediction-2027-jesus-made-sebastian-walcott-colt-emerson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the best prospect in baseball<\/a> come 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And, former longtime Rangers beat writer T.R. Sullivan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/t-r-sullivan-a-retrospective-on-the-harold-baines-sammy-sosa-trade.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a retrospective<\/a> on the infamous Harold Baines\/Sammy Sosa trade via MLB Trade Rumors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. It\u2019s \u201cit\u2019s baseball season!\u201d season. It is the beginning of the Skip Schumaker era that highlights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3622,4,149,39144,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-562413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rangers","12":"tag-rangers-morning-links-posts","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-rangers","15":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116041175903747855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}