Morning, all! Today is the big day...
Jeff Wilson observes that the Rangers will be playing the Phillies today, who went to the World Series last year on the strength of a 87 win season. That’s a 19 win improvement the Rangers need to make on 2022.
Jim Bowden has reasons for optimism and reasons for pessimism for each team in the league, citing Jacob deGrom and Nathan Eovaldi as reasons for optimism and Jacob deGrom’s and Nathan Eovaldi’s reliability as reasons for pessimism.
Levi Weaver has a column about endings and beginnings as it relates to Opening Day in what will be his last post on the daily Ranger beat.