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Does anyone ever get tired of the spectacular defense of third baseman Adrian Beltre? The four-time Gold Glove winner was at it again in Tuesday's 6-3 loss, making one of his best plays in his Rangers career for the final out of third inning. B...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Ian Kinsler is streaking at the plate, with hits in seven straight games. He also made the Rangers Web Gem of the Week on Tuesday night. Kinsler went behind second base on a ground ball in the seventh inning of Tuesday's 10-6 v...

Shortstop Elvis Andrus' defense is so good sometimes it can be taken for granted. Pitcher Yu Darvish is athletic enough to field his position. Both made spectacular bare-handed plays in the last week that can easily be taken for granted. Andrus...

The Rangers will certainly make other great defensive plays this season. Third baseman Adrian Beltre is a perennial Gold Glover. Shortstop Elvis Andrus is as good as it gets at his position. It will be difficult to top center fielder Craig Gentry'...

Each Thursday during the season, we'll reveal our Web Gem of the Week for the Texas Rangers: Right fielder Nelson Cruz made a running catch in Monday's 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays that kept the game tied in the top of the second inning. ...

Each Thursday during the season, we'll reveal our Web Gem of the Week for the Texas Rangers: You can't blame us for having a smaller sampling size to pick our winner -- for a few reasons. First, there were only three games to choose from, inste...

You've got to be a pretty good defender to win defensive player of the month honors over a guy who made eight Web Gems this month and another who made several terrific plays and arguably the best catch of the season a few days ago. But when our pa...

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* Wally has a source saying A.J. to the Pirates "has legs." The sticking point to the trade is the money and players, which is not unusual in such talks. * I go 25/25ing on Joba and come to the realization that the best of Joba is behind him for ...

Ben Jedlovec of Baseball Info Solutions examines Arizona's rise from last season's last-place finish to 2011's division-leading campaign, and identifies three reasons for the turnaround: Improved pitching, elite fielding and Justin Upton.

Story | Conversation | September 10, 2011

Ben Jedlovec of Baseball Info Solution writes that a good portion of A.J. Burnett's struggles for the New York Yankees this season can be attributed to the poor defensive support he's had behind him.

Story | Conversation | September 03, 2011

Mark Simon, of ESPN's Stats & Information, noticed he'd been seeing a lot of Rangers on ESPN's Web Gems. So he checked, and the Rangers have more Web Gems than anyone in the majors. Heading into Wednesday's games, Texas led the majors with 37 Web...

"Baseball Tonight" is literally a show consisting of highlight-reel plays, but our Web Gems segment represents the defensive creme de la creme. This season, we're running a nightly voting competition: The best defensive play from each night -- the No...

They're not quite Tinker and Evers, but Starlin Castro and Darwin Barney are fun to watch.

The good: The Chicago Cubs tallied 11 hits and four players registered multi-hit games. Starlin Castro's three hits were a team high. Castro's two Web Gems were the highlight of the game defensively. The bad: Ryan Dempster surrendered two home run...