A lot of moves on the 25 man roster today, not all of which have come down yet. Here’s my summary of what happened:
Taken off the 25:
1B Mark Teixeira
P Ron Mahay
P Eric Gagne
Put on the 25:
1B/C Jarrod Saltamacchia (according to the Rangers press notes, he’s wearing uniform number 16)
But that leaves two open spots. We’re at 23 by my count, since they haven’t said who else is coming up. If I had to guess, one of them is Jason Gabbard. No idea about the other.
Of course what happens to Adam Melhuse? In what I could hear from the press conference, Daniels said they planed on splitting time at catcher between Salt & Laird. Where’s that leave Melhuse? Unless we’re sending him to the minors, or just DFA’ing him. Don’t know how it will work out at catcher.
Daniels did say that Sosa wasn’t going anywhere.
UPDATE @ 5:45PM: Ron Washington said on the pre-game show that Jason Gabbard will go into our rotation when he arrives tomorrow, although in what position is not known yet. My guess is he doesn’t actually get added to the 25 man roster until tomorrow.
Further moves were posted on the Rangers site a few minutes ago. Here are the further transactions:
- Activated Ian Kinsler from the DL
- Recalled AJ Murray from AAA
- Designated Desi Relaford for assignment.