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ST31: Rangers beat Mariners in spring finale, 6-5

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That’s it. Spring training is over. We finish up 16-14-1 with a 6-5 win over the Mariners. I was busy doing some “house stuff”, so I only got to listen to the 9th inning of this game, but it’s nice to say that the regular season is here finally. Tomorrow night it all starts up for real. I can’t wait! :)

Roster Transaction

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  • The following players had their contracts
    purchased and were added to the 40 man roster:  P C.J. Nitkowski, C Chad
    Kreuter, IF Jermaine Clark, & OF Ruben Sierra.
  • IF Donnie Sadler & OF Ryan Christensen were
    assigned to AAA Oklahoma
  • P Ryan Drese & OF Laynce Nix optioned to AA
    Frisco
  • P Jeff Zimmerman & OF Rusty Greer formally
    added to the 15 day roster, retro to March 21st

ST30: Rangers beat Giants, 10-5

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I didn’t realize this game was on the radio, or I would have listened to all of it. I checked the MLB site around 10:45 and saw there was a feed, so I started listening to it. When I started, the game was already 4-4, but I still got to see some of the Juan Gonzalez show. :)
Nice to see a big offensive outburst like this – 6RBI for Juan, but I hope this carries over. These are nice to see, but I want to see ’em when they count.
John Thomson came out of the game iwth an injury, and how it will impact the roster is not yet known. However, other than John, the rest of our pitching was quite good – The team of Powell / Cordero / Urbina / Santos / Garcia combined for 6.1 innings, giving up just one run. As we wind down, I’m a bit concerned about Esteban Yan – he hasn’t seemed to have gotten it together yet. :(

Roster Transaction

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  • P Doug Davis assigned to AAA Oklahoma (after
    having cleared waivers)
  • P Rudy Seanez signed a 1 year AAA contract
  • C Fernando Lunar traded to Kansas City Royals
    for OF Odannys Ayala.
  • P Chad Hawkins placed on the restricted list –
    What’s that mean?

Roster Transaction

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  • P Victor Santos assigned to AAA Oklahoma
  • P Joaquin Benoit & Brian Shouse assigned to minor league camp
  • IF Mark Teixeira added to 40 man roster

Roster Transaction

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  • P Danny Kolb placed on irrevocable waivers for
    the purpose of giving him his unconditional release.

ST26: Rangers lose to Padres, 8-5

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Once again, work prevented me from listening to much of this game, but I did get to hear the best part – the six run uprising in the seventh inning to win the game 8-5.
It was also nice to see that the big 6 spot wasn’t with three run home runs – in fact, no home runs were involved!
It was also NOT nice to see us give up 5 runs in a game yet again.