A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster. NATE LOWEAge: 25Left-Handed Hitting Corner Infielder. The Rangers are smart to trade with Tampa Bay. It’s a franchise that has proven to be good at evaluating talent, which they aren’t. Know your weaknesses and overcome them. It’s where Nick Solak came from […]
A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster. JORDAN LYLESAge: 30Right-Handed Pitcher Lyles is another in a long line of bargain barrel starters that Jon Daniels plucked off the scrap heap and gave a Texas Rangers uniform. Maybe more than any other reason, that’s why they brought in a new […]
A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster. JOSE LECLERCAge: 27Right-Handed Pitcher Jose Leclerc was the closer. Until he wasn’t. Then the Rangers found another one. That’s the life of most major league closers. Interchangeable drill bits. Vital but not long lasting. Every teams needs one. And every time one […]
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A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster: JOHN KINGAge: 26Left-Handed Pitcher The Rangers tenth-round pick in the 2017 draft, King was one of a handful of players who made it into a major league game without having any experience above A-Ball. He didn’t shine. But, then again, nobody expected […]
After thirty-two years of covering the Rangers, writer T. R. Sullivan is calling it quits. Here’s wishing him a happy retirement and a tipping of the collective cap to his career. Thirty-two years is quite an accomplishment. He published his last article on MLB.com yesterday. He leaves with a few […]
A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster. ISIAH KINER-FALAFAAge: 25Right-Handed Infielder The Rangers were desperate for a drafting success story. Desperate being the operative word. So, they took their fourth-round pick of the 2013 draft, a kid drafted as a shortstop out of high school in Honolulu, and decided […]
A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster. SAM HUFFAge: 22Right-Handed Hitting Catcher The Rangers could sure use a drafting success story and Huff might just be it. The only player of any consequence the Rangers have drafted and developed over the past dozen years has been Joey Gallo. The […]
A continuing look at the Rangers 40-man roster. JONATHAN HERNANDEZAge: 25Right-Handed Pitcher When you throw 100 miles per hour, people are going to want you on their roster. The Rangers signed Hernandez as a international free agent out of the Dominican Republic in 2013, even though he was actually born […]
A continued look at the Rangers 40-man roster. JIMMY HERGETAge: 27Right-Handed Pitcher Texas claimed Herget off waivers from Cincinnati in December of 2019. A month later, they released him. Five months later, they signed him to a contract and he made the opening day roster in 2020, out of the […]
