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Spring Training Game Results

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  • The Rangers win the first spring training game by
    a score of 9-5 over the
    Royals.
  • And so it begins again.  Today’s the first
    spring training games, so I’ll have a game update page later in the afternoon,
    once I can find details.  Some of the spring games aren’t the easiest to
    find things on.  :)
  • Yesterday was an intrasquad game.  The Red
    team (no red uniforms unfortunately) beat the blue team
    4-3.  Bring back the
    red uniforms – see, red wins!

ST1: Rangers beat Royals, 9-5

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Spring Training Baseball is back! Again, it’s the kind of game where you have to sit on the MLB.com scoreboard and just hit refresh, because it’s not on the radio, nor is it on an Internet broadcast, either. Still, it’s nice to have games going again. It’ll be better once I can hear them or see ’em. :)
Watching it on the scoreboard, I saw us give up a run in the top of the first right away, and that wasn’t fun, then we went down 2-0, but took the lead in the bottom of the fifth with a 3 spot. We then followed it in the sixth with a four spot, and finishing up with 2 in the bottom of the eighth for a 9-5 win.
Soriano started off well, going 1-3 with a stolen base, and two double plays in the field. He did have a called third strike on him at one point, but from what I can read had a solid Ranger debut. Herbert Perry was scratched, which isn’t a good sign, as reports going into the games say that he’s still not ready to play third base, after all this time. Fresh off his new contract, Hank Blalock hit a solo home run in the fifth, and Mike Young had no problems in his first game at shortstop.
Oh, and singer Garth Brooks stuck out against us. :) I’m sure we’ll see his strikeout on the local news tonight. :)
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Roster Transaction

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  • The following players signed to a 1 year
    contract – IF Mike Young, OF Laynce Nix

Roster Transaction

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  • The following players all signed to a 1 year
    contract: P Joaquin Benoit, P Colby Lewis, P Ricardo Rodriguez, & IF Jason
    Borgeois.

Newberg on the Arod Trade

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  • Jamey Newberg’s Rangers
    Report     recently had a great paragraph on the trade of Alex Rodriguez to
    the Yankees.  I liked it, and he gave me permission to quote it, so here
    it is.  It pretty much sums up what I feel about him.
  • I gained a lot by watching the clips from
    Alex Rodriguez’s Tuesday press conference in New York. It helped me to see him
    in pinstripes, smiling with Joe Torre, taking photos alongside Derek Jeter,
    talking about his good fortune to be part of the Yankee Machine. There was no
    point in getting angry at the player. He said nothing to make me feel bad
    about my team. He said nothing that any baseball player or anyone who ever
    wanted to be a baseball player wouldn’t have said about what it means to join
    the Yankees. He was, as he usually is, appropriate.   I had closure.

Roster Transaction

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  • The following players all signed to a 1 year
    contract: P Ryan Drese, P RA Dickey, P Ben Kozlowski, & C Gerald Laird

Thoughts on the start of Spring Training

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  • Spring training has started.  I actually feel
    good about Arod not being here anymore.  Sure, I’d love to have him – who
    wouldn’t want the greatest player in the game?  But I’ve come to believe
    the contract was more of an albatross than I believed when he was here. 
    I’ve always hoped we would go with kids, and it looks like we’re finally
    committed to that.  I know the Rangers get a lot of crap in the press
    (hell, watch any of the local TV news coverage), and a lot of internet fans
    are quick to rag on them.   I, however, like some of the moves we’ve
    made (Jordan, Fullmer, Nelson), and think we’ll be better than most people
    think.  I’m no fool, I don’t think we’re going to be great, in fact, I
    think we’ll be in last place again, but I don’t think we’ll be as bad as
    everyone thinks.  Heck, I even have my fingers crossed for Chan Ho Park. 
    If he pitches decently, we might be able to give away some more of his
    bobbleheads.  :)
  • The rest of the position players report to camp
    tomorrow.   It was really nice to see Rusty Greer in spring training
    again.  He won’t play this year, although it might be nice to give him a
    token appearance at the end of the year in September.   I hope the
    plan to have him come back in 2005 at the minimum salary and DH comes to
    fruition.

  • In preparation for the start of
    the season, I’ve been working on various parts of the website.  Over the
    weekend, I worked on my uniform
    number history     section, as the 2004 Spring Training roster number
    assignments are out.  I’m going to clean up a few more projects I’ve been
    meaning to do for awhile now.  If there’s anything you’d like to do in
    helping me out with the site,
    drop me a line.   Thanks.

Roster Transaction

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  • The following players all signed to a 1 year
    contract:  P Mickey Calloway, P Juan Dominguez, P Rosman Garcia, P Chris
    Mabeus, P Edwin Moreno, P Erasmo Ramirez, P Nick Regilio, P Brian Shouse, P
    Ryan Snare, OF Ramon Nivar, 1B Adrian Gonzalez, OF Kevin Mench