Profar dropping a .400+ wOBA is pretty surprising and awesome too

LSB has been kind to you good sir.

I subscribe to the MLB text alerts and I’m pretty sure I got a text with the Rangers’ first draft pick and probably the next couple of picks, too.

Very handy.

That sucks. Let dude start, especially in the frickin minors.

Hard to believe.

Can’t forget that hulking monolith, either

I usually favor catchers. Not even #TheLegend can divert my attention from Perez.

But it makes the signing an immediate win if he has value in a trade this early on.

It’d just be a solid hedge against injury.

Wood adds power arm depth to the 7-8 inning group, and he can close games should Feliz never get out of his funk.

Dempster, well, he would provide SP depth during playoffs and insurance should Ogando’s performance begin to slide. In fact, he would allow the Rangers to move Ogando back to the BP if they felt the innings were beginning to wear on Ogando.

For next year, the Rangers could ask, before trading for Dempster, whether he has any interest in returning to the closer role.

Every played added to a 40-man roster for the first time is granted three option years, allowing the team to assign that player to the minors that year without having to pass him through waivers. A player can move back and forth from the majors to the minors multiple times in a given year, and it still counts as the use of just one option. After a player’s options are expended, he has to clear waivers before he can be assigned to the minors.

In some circumstances, baseball rules allow for a fourth option. A player receives a fourth option if he has less than five seasons of pro experience. Draftees who immediately sign a major league contract will qualify unless they reach the majors quickly and stick there. Otherwise, they’ll have their three options exhausted after their first three years in pro ball. Guthrie falls into this category.

A season is defined as any year in which the player spends 90 days on the active list. Short-season and Rookie leagues don’t last 90 calendar days, so a player assigned to those leagues for an entire year won’t accrue a season of pro experience. Also if a player has a long-term injury, he usually won’t be credited for a season that year. (The exception is if he goes on the disabled list after spending 60 days on an active list, in which case the DL time counts as service time.)

Brown signed in 1999 and the Dodgers placed him on their 40-man roster in 2002, meaning they and the Indians have used up his options to send him to the minors the last three years. But Brown will get a fourth option because this counts as only his third season of pro ball for option purposes. He spent 1999 in Rookie ball, missed all of 2000 with Tommy John surgery, spent 2001 in the short-season New York-Penn League and pitched in just one game in 2003 because he had surgery to remove bone chips from his elbow.