After a flurry of deals Monday afternoon–four players signed to minor-league deals and Tony Barnette returned to the fold on a one-year deal—the Rangers waited until later in the day for news to leak out about perhaps the biggest move of the day (no, still not that one). Mike Minor, soon-to-be-30-year-old left-hander who was a […]
Chi Chi’s back, plus uhhhh David Hurlbut?
Word came down the John Blake information water slide late Monday that Texas had officially signed four players to minor-league deals: Chi Chi Gonzalez, Anthony Gose, David Hurlbut, and Christian Lopes. All four will also receive invites to do Spring Training with the big-league club (though Chi Chi is going to miss most—if not all—of […]
Rangers Non-Tender Four: Griffin, Martinez, Gonzalez, and Alberto
More than anything, the Texas Rangers are looking for starting pitching this off-season. So, good news for the Texas Rangers: three starting pitchers just hit the free-agent market. A.J. Griffin, Nick Martinez, and Chi Chi Gonzalez are now free to sign with whatever team they like. Griffin had been rumored to be a non-tender candidate, […]
12/1/17 – The Rangers Upset Update
Today we have updates on Mike Napoli, Anthony Gose, Shohei Ohtani, and Alex Claudio, plus some information from the Rangers on how to attend this year’s awards ceremony. For the last two years, this column was called the “Baseball Texas Daily”. But with the move to the new site, I no longer had the rights […]
Rangers Sign Outfield/Pitcher Hybrid. No, No, Not That One.
It’s not Shohei Ohtani—Stand down, everyone—but Texas has reportedly signed Anthony Gose to a minor league deal. Gose has played at the big league level as an outfielder with the Blue Jays and Tigers with middling results, but that’s not where the intrigue lies in this signing. No, this bit of news on an otherwise […]
Daniels on Ohtani: Years, not Days
If Shohei Ohtani doesn’t end up a Texas Ranger, it won’t be because Jon Daniels and his team were caught off-guard by a Pop Quiz. On Sunday, news emerged that the two-way superstar from Japan had sent a questionnaire to all 30 MLB teams asking them to provide answers to—according to the AP—these six prompts: […]