I’m going to be on vacation until Tuesday, so I’m not going to do updates for the remaining spring training games, but I’ll be back when the regular season starts on Tuesday.
I will cover roster moves made during this time, though.
Well, that didn’t take long
A couple of days after Juan Gonzalez was named the starting RF of the Indians, he was placed on the disabled list. This is a record for him. He usually plays about 10 games before being “hurt”. This time he played zero!
In reading a story about this move today, I read an interesting fact about his (lack of) durability. It said this: For Juan Gone, this is his 11th trip to the DL in 14 seasons, and he has been limited to just over one season’s worth of games in the last three years.
In fact, looking back at his career stats, Juan hasn’t played what can be called a “full season” of games since 1999, when he was in 144 games. The next closest would be 2001 with 140. He had 115 in his year with the Tigers, and 70/82 in his two years back with the Rangers, and a paltry 33 last year with Kansas City.
It all can be traced back to his baggy pants in the Hall of Fame Game. :)
ST28: Rangers lose again to Padres on Wed, 9-6
I’m going to be on vacation until Tuesday, so I’m not going to do updates for the remaining spring training games, but I’ll be back when the regular season starts on Tuesday.
I will cover roster moves made during this time, though.
More roster moves
This evening, the following events happened on our roster. As spring training winds down, there will be a lot more of these. :)
We acquired a non roster infielder named Cody Ransom for “future considerations”. That usually means we won’t have to send much of anything, and if it is it’s not much. Cody was a career minor leaguer with the Giants until this spring. He signed with the Cubs, and then came here today.
Jason Conti, Manny Alexander, & Esteban German were assigned to minor league camp. I don’t think there’s any surprises here. German made some noise this spring, but I think it would have been a major surprise if he was on the 25 man roster.
Additionally, Ricardo Rodriguez was optioned to AAA. This one is a surprise to me, as I was figuring he was going to be one of the starting five. To me, Rodriguez’ optioning probably means that Chan Ho will make the roster. Oh joy. If I had to guess now, I’d say our starting 5 will be Rogers, Drese, Park, Chris Young, and Pedro Astacio.
Any chance Orel will come out of retirement and pitch? :)
Roster Transaction
- 2B/OF Ramon Nivar traded to Baltimore Orioles
for P Matt Riley & C Keith McDonald [
link ] - P Cody Ransom acquired via trade from the
Chicago Cubs for "future considerations" [
link ] - P Ricardo Rodriguez optioned to AAA
- The following players were assigned to minor
league camp: OF Jason Conti, IF Manny Alexander, IF Esteban German [
link ]
Ramon Nivar traded to Orioles
The Rangers have announced that they have acquired lefthander Matt Riley and catcher Keith McDonald from Baltimore for outfielder Ramon Nivar. I personally don’t know much about these guys, but Jamey Newberg seems to be excited about Matt Riley. As for another catcher, I wonder what Gerald Laird thinks about that. :) Probably just a depth move, though.
This is probably a good move for Ramon Nivar, as he seems to have been squeezed out of the plans, I doubt he ever would have made an impact here, as there seems to be plenty other folks who can do what he does in the organization now.
There’s further details available on this story over at the Rangers site.
ST27: Rangers blow it big time to Padres, 13-12
Well, that was a mess. About the only good thing is that Chan Ho Park gave up 9 hits and 8 runs in 5 innings. And today is decision day on the roster according to the local press. Look at the line score. It was brutally ugly going back and forth.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E - - - - - - - - - -- - - - TEXAS 0 1 2 4 0 1 0 0 2 2 12 15 1 SAN DIEGO 4 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 3 13 16 1
You can view the rest of my update on this game here.
Andres Galarraga Retires
After trying to catch on this spring with the New York Mets (why a NL team, wouldn’t it have been easier in the AL), Andres Galarraga announced his retirement this afternoon.
His time in Texas wasn’t the best period in the team’s history, but I always liked him. With his cancer issues over the years, and from what I can tell his general likability, he was someone I wanted to see succeed, even when he was playing for the hated Braves.
This spring, Galarraga hit .235 in 17 games, with a double, three home runs and seven RBI. Over his entire career, he was a .288 hitter, playing in 2,257 games. He had 1425 RBI’s, and 399 home runs, just one short of the 400 club.
There’s more details in a press release by the Mets here.
You can also view my old roster page for Andres here.
Roster update
A quick note.. John Wasdin was reassigned to minor league camp this afternoon. John wasn’t on the 40 man roster, so no change in that regard. With that move, there are 40 players still in camp, according to the Rangers press release on this move.
ST26: Rangers lose tight one to Giants, 2-1
As I write this, the game has ended, but I haven’t seen any box scores on the game. But with a score of 2-1, you can be pretty assured of one thing. There was a lot of pitching and defense. There always is in a 2-1 score. Was definitely a crisp moving game, coming in at only 2:13.
The linescore is in, and that alone tells me a few things. Chris Young pitched well. The two runs he gave up were in the first and the sixth. The run from the first was a home run to JT Snow, and the Rangers tied it up in the fourth with our only run, a solo home run by Gary Matthews Jr (who seems more and more to be not just a backup outfielder). But that was it for Rangers offense. We did have seven hits all told, but the only one that mattered was Matthews’ jack. Chris Young was a hard luck loser today. :(
Our old buddy Al Levine, who is with the Giants (I wasn’t aware of that) got the save. Nice to see him hanging around. I rather liked him when he was a Ranger awhile back.
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