I would imagine.

When a player is removed from the 40 man roster, he has to clear waivers. If he clears waivers, he can be outrighted to the minor league club.

However, if a player has been outrighted once before, he can opt to become a free agent rather than accept the outright assignment from that point forward. This is the first time Botts has ever been removed from the 40 man roster, so he has not choice but to accept the outright assignment.

for hitters with a career .669 OPS was a little low this last week. Maybe he’ll have better luck next time.

Well, if the Rangers have yet another rash of injuries he might be needed short term. Or, like Cruz, he might go down there and hit .500/.600/.800 and some other team might decide he’s worth a risk now that he’s cleared waivers and doesn’t need a spot on the 40.

At the beginning of the season there was a lot more of us (myself included) that figured he would be claimed.

However, after seeing Cruz and Tejeda pass through waivers I wasn’t really concerned about it this go-round.

your I told you so party didn’t go so well.

Yeah, I guess I was a little off base huh? I figured someone would take a chance on him at least as a switch hitting bench bat that in a pinch could play COF and 1B. I claim temporary insanity due to having just learned that JD had DFA’d him while leaving BB on the roster. That, and overreaction.

Sucks for Botts. I was almost hoping the Rangers botched this one. But it looks like 29 other teams are in basic agreement (for various reasons, obviously).

If Botts was 6’ , 180 lbs, with the same numbers (minors and majors) and the same defensive limitations, I wonder how many of us would call for him to play and wonder if he’d eventually be a major power threat. It seems that people give him a ton of credit for just being a big dude.

I guess he thought he was going to get swooped right up and become the next Travis Hafner.
Reality check = noone cared. Now he’s screwed because of his mouth – he has zero chance in Texas.

Botts is a bigsteve fan, too.

He’s a young guy and it’s a little harsh to use his words against him. Seems that many of us might vent frustration if we were interviewed by reporters immediately after being demoted at work. You’re making a big deal out of nothing.

This organization has kicked me in the nuts too much, I’m fine with people within calling them out.

Haha. +1.

LSJ, in case you didn’t know, I’ll save some time and give you the obligatory comedy explanation. This is from “Dumb and Dumber” in 1994. Great line, great movie.

The guy won the job in spring trainging fair and square. Whether he was signed as a mrketing tool or not the fact is he produced for us. If you remember at the beginning of last year we were not in rebuilding mode. We took the guy who won the job in spring training. It wasn’t even close either. I could see an argument that they chose Sosa over Botts because they were trying to sell seats if they had both had similar stats. But they weren’t even close. I actually applaud the Rangers for having the gaul to sit Sosa and give Botts at bats late last year. Not many teams will simply sit one of their most productive bats simply to give a minor league guy a chance. Once we went to rebuilding mode and couldn’t trade Sosa Botts was given his chance and he fumbled it. I have no sympathy for the guy getting demoted and less after hearing his comments he made upon his demotion.