Hello and welcome to hacks and jacks. It's another edition here on May 11th. It's Mother's Day Sunday.

My name's Brett Ford.

You can find me at Fade That Man on social media.

Scott Chu, unfortunately, is unavailable this evening.

He's on the 10-day IL with a little bit of an illness.

Well, maybe not 10-day IL.

He should be back next week, so maybe we'll refer to him as day-to-day.

So we'll run through this Hacks and Jacks podcast to the best we can.

We've got news and notes as usual, and then we'll jump into the latest update of Scott's

top 150 hitters list.

Scott updated that on May 7th.

We've got risers. We've got fallers. And I'm going to do my best to talk you through Scott's reasoning as well as kind of my personal opinions as well. So here we go. News and notes from this week, we've got some managerial transactions. The Rangers have hired Brett Boone as their new hitting coach. Before Boone was hired, the Rangers had scored three or fewer runs in nine of their 10 games leading up to the change.

But they've averaged five runs per game since Boone was hired.

That's 35 runs scored in seven games.

Not sure if it's correlation or causation, but at least the offense looks better in Texas.

The Rangers who were mired in a losing streak, won their first game without their

old hitting coach on Sunday and have since gone four and three, so at least that's an improvement.

We'll see if the bats can continue to heat up.

Like I said, they've improved from scoring three you know, three or fewer in nine of ten games

leading up to the change.

And now they're averaging five runs per game, including outputs of eight, ten, six, and six.

So we'll see if they get better.

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