{"id":579166,"date":"2026-02-18T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:11:43","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-february-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579166\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; February 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Were the vibes just rancid without Austin Hedges? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/16\/rangers-clubhouse-culture-seager-semien-toxic-rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Grant writes<\/a> about Corey Seager facing the media to discuss the clubhouse culture for the Texas Rangers in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fcorey-seager-discusses-marcus-semien-rangers-2026-season\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedi Landry writes<\/a> that Seager downplayed any bad blood between himself and departed former keystone partner Marcus Semien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jeff Wilson writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/alldlls.com\/texas-rangers-corey-seager-marcus-semien-chemistry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seager is eager<\/a> to buy into the culture that new manager Skip Schumaker intends to instill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/16\/skip-schumaker-has-answered-one-of-three-questions-in-texas-rangers-outfield\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn McFarland writes<\/a> that Schumaker has answered one of three questions regarding his outfield with Brandon Nimmo officially moving to right field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Landry names Kumar Rocker as the Ranger with <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fmlb-players-with-most-to-prove-in-2026-spring-training\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most to prove<\/a> this spring as he tries to graduate from prospect on the cusp to full-fledged big leaguer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Were the vibes just rancid without Austin Hedges? Evan Grant writes about Corey Seager facing the media to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456213,"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-579166","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\/116091570353961645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579166","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=579166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}