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Sunday hops, 2-15-26. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's Hops: Rangers add a veteran bat, minor health setbacks for a few pitchers, some reader additions to "108 Things" that I wish I'd thought of, new farm rankings, COFFEY, and more.

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Open(ed) arms. A couple 2023 acquisitions provide the biggest news in camp so far.

So much for the "no surprises" wish.

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108 things I love about baseball. Inspired by, and expanding slightly on, the great Joe Posnanski’s palatial undertaking. This one goes to 108.

And next:

Riffing on something the great @JPosnanski delivered not long ago with my own take — 108 things I love about baseball.

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No alarms. And no surprises. Please.

Happy New Year.

Two stories for you today. First, of course:

Pitchers & Catchers Report, and what that all means.

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Sunday hops, 2-8-26. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's Hops — free for everyone to read — Washington ties (with maybe one more to come?), a thought about the state of the player development program, more non-roster additions, more farm rankings, COFFEY, and more.

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A chapter closes. We can't get going on the next chapter soon enough.

53 weeks.

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Sunday hops, 2-1-26. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In today's two-week Sunday Hops: another slate of thoughts on the MacKenzie Gore trade, some Wyatt Langford talk, a couple bullpen additions, a massive volume of new prospect rankings, COFFEY, and more.

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The K is capitalized (on). The Rangers finally strike, trading for MacKenzie Gore. Meanwhile, a little bit of soul-searching has me calling for a minor adjustment.

The Rangers go 5-for-Gore. It's a very big deal.

And it prompted me to look in the mirror.

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The top 40 players in town: 2026. Our annual effort taking the Rangers, Mavs, Stars, and Cowboys, and conducting a superdraft.

My annual ranking of the top 40 Rangers, Stars, Mavs, and Cowboys players in town.

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Sunday hops, 1-18-26. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's Hops: lots on the Rangers' deep international haul (including my favorite thing about the group), I got my Baseball America Prospect Handbook, COFFEY, and more.

No paywall today, mainly because there's someone I'd like to tell you about.

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Sunday hops, 1-11-26. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's Hops: it's "J2" week, there will be no arb hearings for the Rangers, the org finalizes its minor league coaching staffs, lots of farm rankings and COFFEY notes, and more.

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Sunday hops, 1-4-26. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's Hops, how the rest of the AL West is behaving this winter, some farm system accolades, COFFEY notes, and more.

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Building the 2026 Rangers roster: The bullpen. I'd like to think there's another late reliever coming. But the music has almost stopped.

Our two-month roster-building series concludes with a look at the bullpen, which once again is in the midst of a overhaul.

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Newberg Report: Best of 2025. Three of our four local teams decisively flipped chapters this year. My turn to close one.

Here are the 5 most-read Newberg Report stories in 2025. With a common theme.

I've removed the paywall from this post—and from all 5 of the linked stories as well. All free to read now.

Happy New Year, you guys. (Including a much happier baseball year.)

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Sunday hops, 12-28-25. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

This week's Hops, led by a development that's making me think more about trading for Marlins starter Edward Cabrera. Plus all the usual weekly features.

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Building the 2026 Rangers roster: The rotation. Even if it's the unit we feel best about, could we see the Rangers bring in another frontline starting pitcher this winter . . . via trade?

I don't *think* the Rangers are done with the winter. Is there one more big piece coming?

Hope so.

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Headed shortly to Tre Stelle Coffee (17390 Preston Rd, Suite 210, Dallas, TX 75252) to sell and sign World Series books. I’ll be there from 8:30-10:30 today, and at the same time tomorrow as well. See you there!

TUESDAY *and* WEDNESDAY: World Series Bound Edition pop-up store. Stop by to pick up some books for the Rangers fans on your list!

Need some last-minute Rangers gifts? Come out to the Newberg Report pop-up Tuesday morning or Wednesday morning for the World Series Bound Edition.

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Newberg Report Holiday Special — get the next 12 months for the price of eight! Good now through the end of December (and it's set up so you can do this for yourself or for those on your gift list):

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Sunday hops, 12-21-25. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's loaded Hops: Notes on the four newest Rangers, the state of the 40-man roster, more CBT reports, a Newberg Report Holiday Special (and Christmas Week meet-up), COFFEY, and more.

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Vail. Lifted. I went to Winter Instructs this week. In more ways than one.

Getting away took on more meaning this week than I anticipated. A baseball story . . . sort of.

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Building the 2026 Rangers roster: DH & the bench. Can the Rangers’ situation be called fairly well settled and pretty much unsettled at the same time?

There's no longer a lot of work to be done at DH or the bench.

For the front office, that is. The players? Different story.

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Sunday hops, 12-14-25. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's busy Hops: thoughts on the signings of Danny Jansen, Alexis Diaz, and Tyler Alexander — with another catcher potentially to come, more on Rule 5 addition Carter Baumler, some CBT line "news," lots of new prospect rankings, COFFEY, and more.

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All these Seager rumors: Is he a Travelin’ Man? Or are things Still the Same? Can we Turn the Page?

All these Seager rumors from outside of Texas made me think I needed to write about this Sunday in Hops.

Then, today, I decided it couldn't wait.

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TROT COFFEY: December 10, 2025. A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the offseason stove heats up.

A lengthy Winter Meetings-closing COFFEY, with news of a trade the Rangers just made as part of Rule 5 — and a trade they are absolutely not going to make.

Also, some thoughts on how Pete Alonso's Orioles deal could impact the Rangers' winter plans.

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TROT COFFEY: December 8, 2025. A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the offseason stove heats up.

Today's midday COFFEY. The Winter Meetings are underway.

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Building the 2026 Rangers roster: Right field. Yes, I'm the guy who loves right field play. But my standards may be unreasonably high.

The Rangers will no longer run a prototype right fielder out there. But overall, they may be better at the position.

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Sunday hops, 12-7-25. A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and yes, a little TROT COFFEY.

In this week's Hops: what to expect (or not expect?) from the Rangers this week at the Winter Meetings, some Rule 5 (and Rule 4) talk, another key loss from the player development program, a continuation of our daily COFFEY drops, and more.

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TROT COFFEY: December 6, 2025. A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the offseason stove heats up.

Here we go. A new COFFEY every day through the Winter Meetings. Today's has a whole lot to go over.

And it's FREE today for all to read. No paywall.

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Building the 2026 Rangers roster: center field. Evan Carter can think back two years to envision the player he can be. He can also look to a new teammate.

Lunchtime post — this week's entry in the roster-building series turns to center field.

And perhaps a new tool to help Evan Carter become an everyday player.

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