{"id":580561,"date":"2026-02-19T05:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:58:27","slug":"wednesday-morning-links-lone-star-ball-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580561\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning Links | Lone Star Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the arrival of automated ball and strike calling and a challenge system the Rangers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/17\/texas-rangers-abs-challenge-system-automated-ball-strike-skip-schumaker-spring-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trying<\/a> to figure out how they are going to leverage it to the benefit of their more discerning hitters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kyle Higashioka and Danny Jansen are using the positionally appropriate Crash Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/17\/texas-rangers-kyle-higashioka-danny-jansen-catchers-spring-training-skip-schumaker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cliche list <\/a>to respond to questions about their expected playing time in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Willie MacIver was <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fastros%2Fnews%2Fwillie-maciver-bringing-big-personality-as-rangers-third-string-catcher\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picked up <\/a>off waivers to provide catching depth behind Higashioka and Jansen, and his strongest tool is his sparkling personality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over at The Athletic they have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7053016\/2026\/02\/18\/mlb-free-agency-best-worst-signings-trades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">round up<\/a> of the best and worst offseason moves around the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the arrival of automated ball and strike calling and a challenge system the Rangers are trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,39144,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-580561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rangers","11":"tag-rangers-morning-links-posts","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-rangers","14":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116095766385406927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580561","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=580561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}