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Cruz to start, Boggs to the bench
Hadn't seen this mentioned yet, but apparently, per the S-T blog, Nelson Cruz will be the everyday right fielder, with Marlon Byrd playing left field and Brandon Boggs heading to the bench as the fourth outfielder. Meh.
Tuesday morning things
Dark day today. The Rangers waste a nice performance from Scott Feldman, and even worse, Ian Kinsler appears to be done for the year. That really sucks. Kinsler is supposed to see a specialist today, and in the meantime, it sounds like Travis Metcalf will be the regular third baseman until Hank...
Trade deadline morning things
A nice win yesterday, and the Rangers are now just 4.5 games out in the wild card race. They are, however, 4th in the wild card race -- trailing Minnesota, the BoSox, and the Yankees -- and are just a half-game up on Detroit, which makes actually winning the wild card a lot harder. BP puts the...
The problem with irregular playing time
T.R. Sullivan has a piece up about the Ranger bench being laden with younger players, and the problem that creates vis-a-vis getting them playing time and developing. The particular focus is on German Duran: Boggs has been able to get semi-regular playing time because of nagging injuries to...
Sunday a.m. things
Rainout yesterday means two games today, and not a ton of Ranger news this morning. Over at the DMN blog, Evan Grant discusses my earlier post about David Murphy starting against Oliver Perez, and offers some things that might have been motivating Ron Washington's decision to go with Murphy,...
Sunday morning things
The Rangers enter June 1 game above .500. Not bad for a team in rebuilding mode, that was largely written off as irrelevant before the season started. The Rangers won 19 games in May, a record for the month, and the first time the Rangers have won 19 games in a month since 1983. Anthony Andro...
Thursday morning things
Off day today. Last time there was an off day, Evan Grant notes, Ron Washington wasn't sure if he would have a job the next time the Rangers had a game. No such concerns this time...going 11-5 will do that for you... Marlon Byrd is back from the d.l., but apparently will be the fourth outfielder...
Thursday morning stuff
Outstanding start by Vicente Padilla last night. Evan Grant says it the best start Padilla has had since coming to Texas, and once again, Padilla succeeded when relying on his fastball. I was surprised Padilla was lifted when he was. He was only at 91 pitches, appeared to still be blowing and...
Sunday morning stuff
A 4 game winning streak. And as Evan Grant points out, the Rangers have had 11 series so far this season, and have won 6 of them. So why don't they have a winning record? 4 of the 5 series they've lost, they've been swept... Ramon Vazquez gets some love from Grant in his game story, with the...
Saturday a.m. stuff
First three game winning streak of 2008 for the Rangers. At 12-18, they have the same record after 30 games as they did last season. And they are only one game back of the Mariners in the A.L. West. Evan Grant's game story talks about Josh Hamilton's incredible catch of Jack Cust's 7th inning...
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