{"id":396461,"date":"2026-08-03T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:52:19","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-august-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396461\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; August 03"},"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\/texas-rangers-houston-astros-yordan-alvarez-22370837.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn McFarland writes<\/a> about the fateful seventh inning yesterday that doomed the Texas Rangers to a sweep in a terrible road trip that might have changed how the Rangers do things at the deadline today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alldlls.com\/rangers\/texas-rangers-astros-score-trade-deadline-schumaker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Wilson writes<\/a> that after getting swept to fall out of first place, the Rangers don\u2019t look like a team that can afford to be buyers today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ken Rosenthal stirred things up yesterday by writing that with a loss on Sunday, the Rangers might do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7486691\/2026\/08\/02\/texas-rangers-mlb-trade-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a full sell off pivot<\/a>. The Rangers lost on Sunday so I guess we\u2019ll see what happens today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Today, among Rosenthal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7488133\/2026\/08\/03\/mlb-trade-deadline-biggest-questions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 questions to answer at the deadline<\/a>, he ponders owner Ray Davis\u2019 desire to rid himself of payroll ahead of the presumed lockout this winter. So yeah, thrilling times for fans of baseball and the Texas Rangers in particular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And, I wish I had some better news to end this with but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/texas-rangers-sebastian-walcott-injury-prospect-22371000.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Walcott hit the IL<\/a> with a concussion after getting hit in the face when an errant throw which pretty much perfectly sums up this week as far as the Rangers go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn McFarland writes about the fateful seventh inning yesterday that doomed the Texas Rangers to a sweep in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1194,42074,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-396461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-latest-news","tag-rangers-morning-links-posts","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}