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Doug Mirabelli traded to Boston

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ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers announced this evening that the club has traded catcher Doug Mirabelli to the Boston Red Sox for righthanded pitcher Justin Duchscherer.
Mirabelli will go on Boston’s major league roster. Duchscherer, who is on the Pawtucket roster of the International League, will be assigned to either Oklahoma of the Pacific Coast League or Tulsa of the Texas League.
The Rangers are expected to replace Mirabelli on the active roster following tonight’s game in Los Angeles.
Duchscherer, 23, had spent the entire season at class AA Trenton in the Eastern League before being promoted to Pawtucket over the weekend. He was 6-3 with a 2.44 era in 12 starts at Trenton. The 6-foot-3 righthander has the fifth lowest earned run average in the Eastern League and has held opposing batters to a .179 (49-274) batting average.
In his last 5 starts with Trenton, Duchscherer was 4-1 with a 0.59 era (2 er/30.1 ip). He defeated Erie in his final outing on June 7, allowing three hits in seven scoreless innings with 11 strikeouts.
A graduate of Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas, Duchscherer was selected by Boston in the eighth round of the June, 1996 draft. He was 7-9 with a 3.39 era in 24 starts at Trenton in 2000, tying for third in the Eastern League in shutouts and posting the league’s ninth lowest earned run average.
Mirabelli was batting .102 (5-49) with 2 homers and 3 rbi in 23 games with the Rangers this season. He started 16 games as Texas’ backup catcher and has thrown out 11 of 19 runners attempting to steal. Mirabelli was acquired from San Francisco on March 27, 2001 and has a career major league average of .218 (89-308) in 163 games with the Giants (1996-2000) and Rangers.
Justin Duchscherer – 2001 stats at Trenton:
6-3 Record, 2.44 ERA, 12 Games (12 starts), 1 CG, 73.2 innings, 14 walks, 69 strikeouts. .

Roster moves aplenty

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Lots of moves yesterday. We traded Doug Mirabelli to the Red Sox for a pretty good pitching prospect. Then, of course, Pudge gets hurt, and Scott Sheldon was our only catcher. In addition, Rusty Greer was put on the DL, Ricky Ledee was activated, and we called up Mike Hubbard to take Mirabelli’s place till Bill Haselman comes back. Yeesh!

Roster Transaction

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  • OF Rusty Greer placed on the 15 day DL
  • OF Ricky Ledee activated from DL
  • C Doug Mirabelli traded to Boston Red Sox for P Justin Duchscherer
  • C Mike Hubbard recalled from AAA Oklahoma

G64: Rangers lose in Los Angeles again, 5-3

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No commentary from me – I started watching the game, but fell asleep on the sofa. Too many of these 9PM start games make me do that. Plus, I have a relatively new sofa which is really comfy to lay down on. :)

G63: Mike Judd (who?) gives up the game to the Dodgers

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Blech. Another loss mostly fueled by crappy pitching. How many times can we write about that?
Odd news – we traded Doug Mirabelli last night to the Red Sox for a pretty decent pitching prospect. Then Pudge goes and gets hurt. That left Scott Sheldon as our only catcher. Yikes!

G62: Rangers beat the Dodgers 12-7 in Interleague Play

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A very cool game. For many reasons. First off, we won, which is weird in and of itself.
However, we got great pitching from Darren Oliver, we got hitting from our pitchers, and we had home runs. Raffy had two, Mike Young had one (in front of his family, who was from LA), and Pudge had one for the fourth game in a row.
The guys looked loose, they were having fun in the dugout, and there was much laughter that I saw on TV. We tried to give it away, by giving up four runs late, but we managed to hold on.
However, it wasn’t all good. Gabe Kapler had to be scratched before the game with the flu, and Rusty had to come out with a hamstring injury. Hopefully it won’t be so bad.

Roster Transaction

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  • OF Cliff Brumbaugh optioned to AAA Oklahoma
  • OF Bo Porter recalled from AAA Oklahoma

G60: Rangers totally blow out Astros, 16-4

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I have tickets to Sunday nights’ game – I can almost guarantee we’ll lose that. Whenever we have a big game like this, we lose the next one.
If we strung together a few of these, I might feel like writing about them – this just feels like an aberration.