I’ll have a more in depth piece on this later, but I have ot run out the door in a few minutes to attend a church service. Here’s the Starting 25 for opening day:
Pitchers (12): Carlos Almanzar, Doug Brocail, Ryan Bukvich, Francisco Cordero, Ryan Drese, R.A. Dickey, Ron Mahay, Chan Ho Park, Matt Riley, Kenny Rogers, Brian Shouse and Chris Young.
Catchers (2): Sandy Alomar, Jr. and Rod Barajas.
Infielders (6): Hank Blalock, Mark DeRosa, Adrian Gonzalez, Alfonso Soriano, Mark Teixeira and Michael Young.
Outfielders (5): Chad Allen, David Dellucci, Richard Hidalgo, Gary Matthews, Jr. and Kevin Mench.
Here’s all the moves that had to be made to get the roster to look this way:
• Optioned catcher Gerald Laird, outfielder Laynce Nix and RHP Nick Regilio to Triple-A Oklahoma.
• Assigned outfielder Andres Torres, infielders Ian Kinsler and Cody Ransom, and pitchers Vlad Nunez and Keith Stamler to the club’s minor league camp.
• Purchased the minor league contracts of infielder Mark DeRosa and outfielder Chad Allen.
• Designated RHPs Travis Hughes and Agustin Montero for assignment.
• Placed the following players on the disabled list (all retroactive to March 25) – RHP Pedro Astacio (groin strain), RHP Joaquin Benoit (shoulder), RHP Frank Francisco (elbow) and LHP Erasmo Ramirez (tendon strain in left middle finger).
• Placed INF Greg Colbrunn (right wrist) on the disabled list retroactive to March 29.
There’s one exception to all this. Carlos Almanzar’s mother died earlier today, and because of this Carlos was placed on the bereavement list. Nick Regilio, who was technically sent to AAA, was technically recalled and will be with the club on Tuesday in Anaheim.
Roster Transaction
- P Carlos Almanzar placed on bereavement list
- P Nick Regilio recalled from AAA [
link ]
Roster Transaction
- The following players were optioned to AAA: C
Gerald Laird, OF Laynce Nix, P Nick Regilio - The following players were reassigned to minor
league camp: OF Andres Torres, IF Ian Kinsler, IF Cody Ransom, P Vlad Nunez, P
Keith Stamler. - The following players placed on the 15 day DL
(all retro to Mar 25): P Pedro Astacio, P Joaquin Benoit, P Frank Francisco, &
P Erasmo Ramirez - IF Greg Colbrunn placed on 15 day DL,
retroactive to Mar 29 - P Travis Hughes designated for assignment
- P Augustin Montero designated for assignment
- OF Chad Allen purchased from AAA
- IF Mark DeRosa purchased from AAA
- Link for all these moves is
here.
Rangers poll on ESPN
Check out this page on ESPN. It’s a Raners based poll on the upcoming season.
Mark DeRosa added to roster
Darn. I was really hoping we’d add Ian Kinsler to the roster. Mark DeRosa was added to the 40 man roster on Thursday. There is a quote by John Hart about Kinsler saying “This does not mean he does not make the club,” Hart said. “Things can still happen.”
I’d be surprised if DeRosa & Kinsler make it.
I believe this move hasn’t formally been announced since DeRosa has to take someone’s roster spot, so that’s being worked out.
ST29: Ryan Drese is great in win over Royals, 3-0
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 ]
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