{"id":781129,"date":"2026-08-17T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/781129\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:51:15","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/781129\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/disastrous-west-coast-road-trip-angels-athletics-22388837.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn McFarland ponders<\/a> what to make of the Texas Rangers after an abysmal road trip against baseball\u2019s worst teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">MLB dot com\u2019s Theo DeRosa writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fjunis-surrenders-go-ahead-home-run-rangers-drop-finale\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Rangers falling in the finale<\/a> against the Athletics to become the first visiting team to lose a series in Sacramento since April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/skip-schumaker-closer-jacob-latz-this-month-22390644.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McFarland checks out why<\/a> Jacob Latz has barely appeared in August and it\u2019s mostly because the Rangers have been pretty bad in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And, MLB Pipeline has a midseason update to <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fin-season-farm-system-rankings-2026\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the farm system rankings<\/a> and the Rangers have (just barely) escaped the bottom third!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn McFarland ponders what to make of the Texas Rangers after an abysmal road trip against baseball\u2019s worst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3622,4,149,39144,1567,69,3240],"class_list":["post-781129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-latest-news","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-rangers-morning-links-posts","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117111179409498943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781129","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=781129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}