The Rangers beat the Frisco Roughriders 6-1 in the final game of spring training.
Who cares about the details? Bring on the regular season!
Umpires
And here we go. Today is opening day, or at least a real opening day of sorts – not the fake ones we’ve had so far.
I get in the car and turn on turn on XM radio and listen to the baseball talk channel, and the first thing you’re talking about is blown calls in the Miami game last night.
The hosts were ragging on Angel Hernandez and an obviously blown call with Bud Selig sitting there. I’m thinking to myself it’s day one, we haven’t played the bulk of the games yet for “game one” and they’re already ragging on the umpires.
This will be an interesting season – it just feels like an home. :-)
25 Man Roster Set
- OF Julio Borbon optioned to AAA
- P Yoshinori Tateyama placed on 15 day DL (retro to Mar 30)
- IF Luis Hernandez assigned to AAA
- P Robbie Ross purchased from AAA
- IF Alberto Gonzalez purchased from AAA
- P Cody Eppley designated for assignment
- P Neil Cotts assigned to AAA
- P Aaron Heilman signed to a 1 year minor league contract [ Link ]
Some remarks: None of these were a huge surprise, really. We knew about pretty much all of these moves before the season started. Given this is the 25 man roster, I’ll make a larger separate post about this separately.
ST32: Rangers wallop Mexico team 13-4 after day of tornadoes
I was originally planning on going to this game. I was going to go early, and retake the photos for my seat selector feature here on this site. The pictures are due to be retaken, especially due to all the changes in the park the last two years. Then this happened:
ST31: Rangers beat their own, 10-8 over Round Rock
This was an odd game. It was technically the Texas Rangers vs the Round Rock Express. However, after a few innings, it somewhat turned into a scrimmage game between Round Rock and themselves. The Rangers starters played not too long, and subbed in guys who were either going to be in AAA, or were very recently in AAA.
A sloppily pitched game. 18 runs, and 28 hits will qualify for that. If you want to read the details, go check out the mlb.com link above.
However, Josh Hamilton finally got a spring home run – his first. Beltre homered as well. Last year I went down to Round Rock via a Chevy promotion. Was kind of hoping it would happen again, but it didn’t. Had fun last spring. Still, I might have to go down to Round Rock during the season for a game. I miss that road trip.
ST30: Rangers beat Padres 5-3 behind Lewis win
I’m skipping commentary on this one – didn’t see or hear any of it, and I dont have the time to do a box score recap.
This was the final game in Arizona for the season. The remainder of the exhibition games are in Texas!
ST29: Rangers beat Indians, 7-4 on Saturday
I’m skipping commentary on this one – didn’t see or hear any of it, and I dont have the time to do a box score recap. Still, not thrilled at the “eh” outing by Neftali Feliz here.
ST28: Yu fans 11 in 5-3 win over Rockies
Yu Darvish looked quite good on Friday night against the Rockies. Six innings pitched, six hits, one walk, but ELEVEN strike outs. That was quite nice. He did give up three earned runs, however two of them came on a two run home run to Jason Giambi, who is still playing (that surprised me). In fact, Giambi was the only guy who Darvish didn’t have control over. Giambi was 3-3. Helton was 2-3. Between those two, they had five of the nine hits that Colorado had for the entire game.
Darvish did pretty well, just not against those two. :)
Autism Awareness
I would like to say I hope you don’t know anyone who has autism. But you do know one. Me. I don’t personally have autism, but my two year old son does. When your kid has autism, so do you.
When your kid can’t talk to anyone, can cause a scene, you have to explain to people what they are, it is stressful. Dealing with uninformed people’s opinions. None of it is any fun. My wife found a place where we can buy “Autism Cards”, where you can hand them out to people who are giving you weird looks, or make remarks if your kids are acting up in public. Check ’em out.
Some players sent down
- P Michael Kirkman optioned to AAA
- C Luis Martinez optioned to AAA
- C Dusty Brown assigned to minor league camp (with AAA)
- P Greg Reynolds assigned to minor league camp (with AAA)
- P Tanner Scheppers assigned to minor league camp (with AAA) [ Link ]
Remarks: First off, I was wondering when we were going to start making some roster moves, as we’re now under a week to go until opening day, and we haven’t seen a ton of movement on the roster.
The two catcher moves were no surprise. Neither of these guys was breaking camp. Same with Greg Reynolds.
Tanner Scheppers will probably be here at some point this year, but not the opening day 25.
I am a bit surprised that Kirkman was optioned out. Not shocked, but a little surprised. I think this might tip their hand regarding Robbie Ross. Kirkman was widely expected to have a spot, because he was the only left hander in the pen possibilities that has major league experience with the Rangers. I know that’s how I felt anyway. But he hasn’t exactly grabbed hold of the opportunity, and Robbie Ross has for the most part.
We’re getting close – with the Japan series, and the Rangers opening a day after half the teams do, I don’t know what day we have to submit our final 25 man roster. I asked Jamey about it. :)
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