The Rangers are home. We’ve left spring training behind (well, in Arizona, anyway) for another year. This penultimate game of spring training went the way that a lot of Rangers games go. All of our offense was on the longball. Brad Wilkerson, Mark Teixiera, & David Dellucci all had homeruns. That was all of our offense for the game.
Phil Nevin and Hank Blalock both went 2 for 3, but didn’t have any RBI’s. We had a total of 8 hits in the game – a fairly well pitched game from Florida overall, although starter Brian Moeheler didn’t have a great line (5IP, 4ER, 8H).
Kameron Loe went only four, but did pitch well, allowing only a single solo home run for all of Florida’s offense. Fabio Castro, Erasmo Ramirez, Joaquin Benoit, Antonio Alfonseca, & Francisco Cordero all pitched in this game, and all combined for 5 innings of shutoutball on just three hits.
The game was on the radio, but I didn’t get a chance to listen to most of it, as I was doing daddy duties, and then ended up helping out my wife by dealing with dirty dishes, and washing baby bottles. With the water running, it was hard to hear the radio unless I blasted it, and I didn’t want to wake up my daughter. :)
The final game of spring training is at home in Arlington on Saturday evening. I’ll be there
Roster is in flux
There’s players flying all over the place right now. :) The next 24 hours will be quite chaotic for the roster. I have decided that until it’s all sorted out who is where when the final roster is put toether tomorrow night, I’ll wait and see what’s going to happen. I’m going to be at the game on Saturday, so I plan to pick up a media guide which I’ll use to update roster pages for players that don’t have them now. My roster page/transactions page has some of the changes, but not all – I’ll catch up when the 25 man is announced.
Dominguez traded
- P Juan Dominguez traded to A’s for P John Rheinecker & IF Freddie Bynum
- IF Freddie Bynum traded to Cubs for John Koronka & PTBNL or cash
Dominguez outta here
Well, I thought I had a handle on the rotation. Apparently not. Juan Dominguez has been traded. I haven’t read anything about this yet, so I’m just going to lift Jamey Newberg‘s update on this, which I just got.
Eric Nadel just announced on the Rangers’ game broadcast that Texas has traded righthander Juan Dominguez to Oakland for lefthander John Rheinecker and utility man Freddie Bynum, and then turned around and dealt Bynum to the Cubs for lefthander John Koronka (a former Rule 5 pick of the Rangers) and a player to be named later or cash.
There’s also a story about this on the DMN site here.
ST27: Rangers lose again in Arizona finale, 6-4
Well, Thursday was the last day in Arizona. The Rangers broke camp today. We leave Arizona with a 10-16-1 record and we skip town on a four game losing streak. Only the White Sox (8-19) did worse in Cactus League play. Not terribly worried. It’s the time of year when you hear “they don’t count” a lot, and then people like me say “but you still want a winning record”. I think I said this same thing last year, too. :)
The biggest disappointments out of camp for me have to be the Eaton injury and the lack of any of the candidates to take a real solid hold of the #5 spot. Dickey got it, but it seems to be based on one extremely good outing, I can’t recall any of his others being that stellar. Due to the Eaton injury, Juam Dominguez gets called back to be the #5, now that everyone else is bumped up one game. My gut tells me he won’t grab a hold of this opportunity, either.
Oh yeah, this game. Padilla started, and went 6, giving up four runs. Not great at all, but not horrendous, either. Two home runs I believe accounted for all the runs, so overall he pitched “fair”, only one walk. Cordero’s appearance was a bit more disturbing, giving up two runs in his one inning on three hits.
Offensively, Mark Teixeira’s home run was the big deal for us, givng us three of our four runs. Kevin Mench now has an eight game hitting streak, and he looks like our hottest player coming out of the gate.
Friday night we have an exhibition game in Frisco, then one in Arlington on Saturday that I’ll be at. Still have some roster decisions to make, I wonder when the big flood will come down.
Adam Eaton
This just came across from the DMN:
Rangers starter Adam Eaton says he may miss three months and surgery may be an option for the injured middle index finger on his right hand.
Two starts, eh? Well, I guess we need a more permanent option for another starter. And we’re just about out of time, as we broke camp this afternoon. More here on the DMN site.
Leicester
- P Jon Leicester outrighted to AAA [ Link ]
ESPN Season Preview
I’m not sure when this was posted, but I just noticed this morning that ESPN has their Rangers Season preview posted. It’s available here.
Of their 10 writers, 9 of the 10 picked the Rangers third. Only one picked them anywhere else, that was Steve Phillips, who picked ’em second. They consider the front office a weakness, specifically pointing out Jon Daniels this way:
A constantly rotating front office can’t be good for business, and Jon Daniels is the latest to give it a whirl, the Rangers’ third GM of the 2000s.
I don’t think I agree with that. Melvin to Empty Golf Shirt to Daniels. That’s a bit harsh on Daniels to blame him when he hasn’t had a full season, and has what most people consider to be a very good first off season.
ST26: Rangers lose 13-11
No time to write at the moment. Bummer about Eaton. :(
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