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On Saturday afternoon, the Rangers signed Rod Barajas to a 1 year deal, avoiding arbitration. He got a $1.85 Million dollar deal, which seems a bit high, considering his highest salary previous to this was $300,000. Still, he did good for us last year, and if he can keep it up in 2005 it should be a decent signing.

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he following big prospects were invited to spring training this year: Joaquin Arias, Ian Kinsler, John Danks, Thomas Diamond, & Mike Nickeas.
I wonder if that’s all our prospects that will be invited.

Four arbitration eligible players were offered contracts by the Rangers yesterday. They are: Alfonso Soriano, Gary Matthews Jr, Rod Barajas, & Carlos Almanzar.
More info is at the Rangers site here.

The Rangers today re-signed Jeff Zimmerman to a minor league contract, where he’ll continue his lengthy rehab assignment. In the news story about the signing, the words “he was loyal to the Rangers so we wanted to be loyal to him”. I thought Rusty Greer was loyal, too? Where’s the love for the Red Baron?

The Rangers finally signed someone who actually WANTED to play here; I felt it took too long to get this deal done. We signed David Dellucci to a 2 year contract. He’s not the sexiest name out there, but he did bring a good veteran leadership to this club last year. We could do a lot worse.
Story on mlb.com about this.

The Rangers also signed utility infielder Greg Colbrunn over the past week to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training. I’m pretty indifferent towards this signing. He strikes me as much the same kind of player that Dellucci is. If he can prove he’s not hurt, he’ll probably stick, and basically have the role the Herbert Perry had the last few years (when he wasn’t hurt).
I don’t know much about Colbrunn, here’s his stats from baseball-reference.com.