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We use the DL for the first time this season

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Well, our friend last year (the disabled list) was used on Thursday for the first time. The lucky recipient was Frank Francisco. He’s on there due to right elbow soreness. As I sit here and write this, I’m thinking he hasn’t pitched at all in a game. He might have, but I can’t recall at the moment.
Anyway, he’ll definitely start the season on the DL, which will jumble up our setup situation for a bit. I don’t think it will be the major impact that some people think it will. Sure, it will affect things, but I don’t think we’re going to completely fall apart over this. Not unless CoCo can’t go, either.
One interesting side note. If Francisco comes off after the actual 15 days, he’ll be activated early enough to make our first trip to Oakland, which is on Apr 17-19th. And when he does go back, you know we’re gonna have to see the chair tossing incident again. Or worse, the totally innocent cash grabbing opportunists fans who were hit by the chair talk about it. So there’s a little part of me that wants him to stay on the DL past our trip to Oakland. Unfortunately, it’ll happen eventually as we go there several times.

Doug Glanville released by the Yankees

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Former Rangers outfielder Doug Glanville was released by the Yankees today. He was trying to hook up with them to back up Bernie Williams (who has a great jazz cd), but the Yankees decided his offense wasn’t up to par (we saw that in Texas).
I do like the guy, I followed him during his years in Philly. I just don’t see him hooking on with someone else. Kind of reminds me of Tom Goodwin, who is still floating around out there. Light hitter, good defender, great clubhouse guy.

ST22: Rangers beat Royals 6-4

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The Rangers beat the Royals 6-4 behind a mostly good performance by Chan Ho Park (damn). Proper update on Friday.

ST21: Rangers finally win one, 13-10 over A’s

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No time to write a proper story for this, as I didn’t get to do THIS until after 5PM the day after this game happened. I will say this. We finally won, and it’s interesting that the combined scores of today’s and yesterday’s game was A’s 25, Rangers 22. Lots of runs in the last 18 innings of baseball. :)
You can view my full update for this game here.

More roster moves

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Since Tuesday’s game, the Rangers have made two roster moves.
They’ve optioned both Kameron Loe & Travis Hughes to AAA Oklahoma. That leaves us with 42 players in camp.
You can view my roster information here.

ST20: Rangers lose a fiasco to A’s, 15-9

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Ugh. In the first two innings, I felt like we were going to have a good second half of spring training. That died in the third inning. We went into the third up 6 to nothing. We left the top of the third losing 7-6. Then after the fourth, we were losing 9-7. Only two runs, and 5 more innings to play at that point, but it just felt bad. I did listen to this game over MLB.com’s Gameday Audio on the A’s feed. Was nice of them to have Eric Nadel & Victor Rojas on there as guests, and they made a couple of shoutouts to “Ranger fans listening”. Nice of them to be cognizant of that issue.
Anyway, in listening it felt like there wasn’t any pitching at all in the game. It was hit after hit after run scored, etc.. Total of 24 runs and 25 hits between the two teams – not much good pitching going on. In fact, Ron Mahay was the only real bright spot for us pitching wise, going two innings and giving up no hits, and no walks. Wes Littleton only pitched .1 of an inning and he didn’t give up anything, but that doesn’t really count, IMO. The other guys (Regilio, Hughes, & Bukvich) just stunk up the place.
Offensively, it was nice to see a couple of home runs from Sandy Alomar (that still seems weird talking about him as a Ranger), and Laynce Nix, who needs to turn it around in a hurry to keep from losing his starting job to Gary Matthews, who in my opinon has earned it. Scary moment in the first inning though as Teixeira got plunked with a pitch, and came out of the game after trying to stay in. It didn’t sound good listening to the game, and on Wednesday it doesn’t seem like it’s a big deal, but still – you never want to see that to one of your better players.
We’re awfully close to having the worst record in the majors during spring training. We’re already the worst in Cactus League play. We’re 6-14 (.300), and the next worst are the Royals at 7-11 (.400), and two games ahead of us. Over in Grapefruit League play, only the Marlins have a worse record than us at 6-15 (.295), but we’re pretty close to falling below them. :(
You can view my full update for this game here.