{"id":603743,"date":"2026-03-03T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:25:13","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603743\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shawn McFarland offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/03\/02\/texas-rangers-spring-training-observations-josh-smith-world-baseball-classic-wbc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few observations<\/a> from Texas Rangers camp yesterday, including some players beginning to filter out for the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jeff Wilson writes that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/alldlls.com\/texas-rangers-mathan-eovaldi-spring-training-degrom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a busy day yesterday<\/a> with Nathan Eovaldi getting in some work in on the back fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/sports\/2026\/03\/rangers-leiter-gore-spring-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Crizer writes<\/a> about the things that actually matter for the Rangers this month as they try to make their time in Surprise a success.<\/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\/03\/02\/texas-rangers-jacob-degrom-debut-spring-training-team-brazil-world-baseball-classic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McFarland notes<\/a> that Brandon Nimmo and Jacob deGrom are expected to make their spring debuts against WBC Team Brazil on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And, yeah, Ray Davis and the Rangers signaled their values by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/03\/02\/statue-removed-from-dallas-love-field-installed-at-texas-rangers-ballpark\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resurrecting a racist statue<\/a> that was removed from Love Field and that no one asked to be returned to prop up at the door as a greeter at his drab stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you even plan to attend games \u2014 which I don\u2019t know why you would after Davis apparently spent more of his offseason recruiting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Riot,_One_Ranger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">monuments to the dubious past<\/a> of the team\u2019s namesake than trying to make the club a winner while slashing payroll \u2014 more often than what you will see when you pass the gates will be the view as you walk around the concourse. From there, you will see the statue in all the embarrassing reverence it deserves:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dicks out for Ray, and have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn McFarland offers a few observations from Texas Rangers camp yesterday, including some players beginning to filter out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603744,"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-603743","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\/116165943413934525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603743","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=603743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}