{"id":450127,"date":"2026-09-28T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450127\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:30:10","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-september-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450127\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; September 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shawn McFarland writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/texas-rangers-playoffs-standings-astros-twins-22451545.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Texas Rangers finally succumbed<\/a> to working with a threadbare pitching staff in a season finale loss that left no doubt that there would be no October baseball.<\/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-twins-score-astros-playoffs-schumaker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Wilson writes<\/a> that the Rangers went 2-4 in their final two series of the year against two teams with losing records to drop the American League West by a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kennedi Landry writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1797504&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Frangers-eliminated-from-postseason-race-with-loss\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Rangers are disappointed<\/a> with their play this season as they missed the postseason for a third straight year.<\/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\/texas-rangers-eliminated-corey-seager-jacob-degrom-22451546.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Grant writes<\/a> that, despite being in the worst division in history, it was the big guys who didn\u2019t show up for Texas in the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">ESPN\u2019s Bradford Doolittle writes that Jacob Latz establishing himself as a contributing big leaguer can be taken as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49974689\/mlb-2026-playoffs-postseason-eliminated-teams-bright-side-optimism-silver-linings-2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a silver lining for the Rangers<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And, Bob Nightengale notes that former Rangers general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1797504&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fmlb%2Fcolumnist%2Fbob-nightengale%2F2026%2F09%2F27%2Fwhat-is-mlb-lockout-2027%2F91970076007%2F\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Daniels has dropped out of the running<\/a> for the top decision-making job with the erstwhile Oakland Athletics. Considering the level of talent they deployed in their 9-0 series finale loss to Houston, I can\u2019t say I blame him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn McFarland writes that the Texas Rangers finally succumbed to working with a threadbare pitching staff in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1194,42074,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-450127","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\/450127","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=450127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}