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Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for awhile now (2024 is the 17th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here.  If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.

Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2024.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:

The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.

Total players in 2023: 54
Total pitchers used in 2021: 31
Total position players used in 2021: 23
Total players making major league debut: 10

• #54 – Dustin Harris (Sep 28 – replacing Josh Jung (DL))
• #53 – Marc Church (Sep 27 – replacing Jack Leiter (AAA))
• #52 – Kumar Rocker (Sep 12 – replacing Chase Anderson (DFA))
• #51 – Sandro Fabian (Sep 4 – replacing Corey Seager (DL))
• #50 – Chase Anderson (Aug 31 – replacing Dane Dunning (AAA))
• #49 – Tyler Mahle (Aug 6 – replacing Walter Pennington (AAA))
• #48 – Walter Pennington (Aug 2 – replacing Max Scherzer (DL))
• #47 – Andrew Chafin (Jul 31 – replacing Jonathan Hernandez (DFA))
• #46 – Carson Kelly (Jul 29 – replacing Andrew Knizner (AAA))
• #45 – Daniel Robert (Jul 8 – replacing Grant Anderson (AAA))
• #44 – Max Scherzer (Jun 23 – replacing Yerry Rodriguez (AAA))
• #43 – Gerson Garabito (May 26 – replacing Shaun Anderson (DFA))
• #42 – Jesus Tinoco (May 23 – replacing Jon Gray (DL))
• #41 – Derek Hill (May 21 – replacing Davis Wendzel (AAA))
• #40 – Shaun Anderson (May 15 – replacing Jack Leiter (AAA))
• #39 – Owen White (May 8 – replacing Dane Dunning (DL))
• #38 – Robbie Grossman (May 8 – replacing Jonathan Ornelas (AAA))
• #37 – Jonathan Ornelas (May 6 – replacing Wyatt Langford (DL))
• #36 – Grant Anderson (Apr 24 – replacing Austin Pruitt (DL))
• #35 – Jonathan Hernandez (Apr 23 – replacing Owen White (AAA))
• #34 – Nathaniel Lowe (Apr 20 – replacing Jared Walsh (DFA))
• #33 – Sam Huff (Apr 20 – replacing Jonah Heim (bereavement list))
• #xx – Owen White (Apr 19 – replacing Jack Leiter (AAA)) – did not play)
• #32 – Jack Leiter (Apr 18 – replacing Grant Anderson (AAA))
• #31 – Michael Lorenzen (Apr 15 – replacing Yerry Rodriguez (AAA))
• #30 – Cole Winn (Apr 14 – replacing Cody Bradford (DL))
• #29 – Austin Pruitt (Apr 13 – replacing Brock Burke (DL))
• #28 – Davis Wendzel (Apr 8 – replacing Justin Foscue (DL))
• #27 – Justin Foscue (Apr 2 – replacing Josh Jung (DL))

#26 to #1 (in surname alphabetical order): Cody Bradford, Brock Burke, Evan Carter, Dane Dunning, Ezequiel Duran, Nathan Eovaldi, Adolis Garcia, Jon Gray, Andrew Heaney, Jonah Heim, Travis Jankowski, Josh Jung, Andrew Knizner, Wyatt Langford, Jacob Latz, Jose LeClerc, David Robertson, Yerry Rodriguez, Josh Sborz, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Josh Smith, Leody Taveras, Jose Urena, Jared Walsh, Kirby Yates.

Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded

Roster Notes:

• Of the opening day 26 man roster, just one player is making their major league debut – Wyatt Langford.
• Of the opening day 26 man roster, 6 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Andrew Knizner, Jared Walsh, Wyatt Langford, David Robertson, Kirby Yates, Jose Urena).
• Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2023 (1 – Langford), 2022 (0), 2021  (2, Arihara, DeGeus), 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia & Smokin’ Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish & Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).
• Players with “xx” in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn’t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).

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If you’ve been following me and my Texas Rangers fandom for any length of time, you should know that uniform numbers fascinate me.  I’m always looking up information on players, and it’s something I’ve been doing for awhile.

Some Background:

I grew up in Philadelphia, and when I was young, it was the era of Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, and Pete Rose.  To this day I can still recall their numbers without looking it up (32, 20, 14).  But it went further than that.  Unless they retired someone’s number, I would always think “Hey, that’s so and so’s old number”.   That mindset extended to when I moved to Texas in the early 90’s and because a fan of the Texas Rangers.

Back in 2006, I happened upon this book, which was a list of uniform numbers for every team.  It was a goldmine!  Yeah, the internet was around at this point, but things like Baseball Reference were not.  This was an awesome book, I picked it up, and used the data on the Rangers as a starting point to launch uniform number history on my website.  Back then it was far more spartan than what I have now, but I’ve spent over a decade working the numbers now. [Read more…]

Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for awhile now (2023 will be the 16th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here.  If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.

Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2022.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:

The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.

Total players in 2023: 45
Total pitchers used in 2021: 26
Total position players used in 2021: 19
Total players making major league debut: 5

• #45x – Matt Bush (Sep 30 – replacing Alex Speas (DFA)) – Bush Did not pitch
• #45 – Jake Latz (Sep 16 – replacing Ian Kennedy (DL))
• #44 – Evan Carter (Sep 8 – replacing Adolis Garcia (DL))
• #43 – Jonathan Ornelas (Aug 7 – replacing Josh Jung (DL))
• #42 – Austin Hedges (Aug 2 – replacing Bubba Thompson (optioned to AAA))
• #41 – Max Scherzer (Aug 1 – replacing Spencer Howard (traded to NYY))
• #40 – Jordan Montgomery (Aug 1 – replacing Cody Bradford (optioned to AAA))
• #39 – Chris Stratton (Aug 1 – replacing Yerry Rodriguez (optioned to AAA))
• #38 – Alex Speas (Jul 19 – replacing Taylor Hearn (DFA))
• #37 – Aroldis Chapman (Jul 1 – replacing Yerry Rodríguez (optioned to AAA)
• #36 – Glenn Otto (Jun 30, replacing John King (optioned to AAA))
• #35 – Owen White (Jun 13 – replacing Cole Ragans (optioned to AAA))
• #34 – Grant Anderson (May 29 – replacing Cody Bradford (optioned to AAA))
• #33 – Joe Barlow (May 16 – replacing Cody Bradford (optioned to AAA))
• #32 – Cody Bradford (May 15 – replacing Yerry Rodriguez (optioned to AAA))
• #31 – Sam Huff (May 9 – replacing Travis Jankowski (DL))
• #30 – Yerry Rodriguez (Apr 29 – replacing Jacob DeGrom (DL))
• #29 – Josh Sborz (Apr 14 – replacing Taylor Hearn (optioned to AAA))
• #28 – Leody Taveras (Apr 12 – replacing Corey Seager (DL))
• #27 – Sandy Leon (Apr 10 – replacing Mitch Garver (DL))

#26 to #1 (in no particular order): Mitch Garver, Jonah Heim, Nathaniel Lowe, Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Josh Jung, Adolis Garcia, Robbie Grossman, Bubba Thompson, Travis Jankowski, Brad Miller, Josh Smith, Ezequiel Duran, Jacob DeGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Jon Gray, Martin Perez, Andrew Heaney, Dane Dunning, Taylor Hearn, Jonathan Hernandez, Jose LeClerc, Brock Burke, Will Smith, Cole Ragans, Ian Kennedy.

Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded

Roster Notes:

• Of the opening day 26 man roster, nobody is making their major league debut. That’s two years in a row now.
• Of the opening day 26 man roster, 6 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Robbie Grossman, Travis Jankowski, Jacob DeGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Andrew Heaney, Will Smith).
• Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2022 (0), 2021  (2, Arihara, DeGeus), 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia & Smokin’ Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish & Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).
• Players with “xx” in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn’t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).

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I’ve spent a lot of time tracking Texas Rangers uniform numbers.  I’ve gotten some attention for it as well from people of note connected to the Rangers (such as Eric Nadel, Victor Rojas (both on air), & TR Sullivan (online)).  I’m proud of that.  If you’ve never checked out my uniform number history section of the website, please do.  As I said, I’ve spent a lot of time on it, but if you have some info that I do not (with proof), I’d love to hear from you.

But I seem to have developed a reputation as the “Uniform Number guy” for the Texas Rangers, because earlier today John Moore tweeted out that I should do a list of “All time Rangers” for every uniform number.  I saw that tweet in the morning before breakfast, and dammit – I was out to breakfast with my wife this morning, and all I could think of was uniform numbers.  So thanks John.  ;)

Anyway, I decided to have a go this afternoon, and what I’ve done is go down all the uniform numbers and pick out the Rangers player that I think is the best at that number.  A few caveats about the research for the list first… [Read more…]

Usually towards the end of the year, we always hear about how many players the Texas Rangers have used overall in any particular season. The Rangers are usually towards the high end of that list. Injuries, callups, usually make for a long list, and you tend to forget the guys who are here so quick that they don’t even have time for the proverbial “cup of coffee”. I’ve done this for awhile now (2022 will be the 15th season I’ve kept track of this), and it’s worked out pretty well. I’ve also gotten some positive feedback on it, so it’s become a permanent feature here.  If you’d like to see the final tallies for the other years I’ve done this, you can still see them with links at the bottom of the page.

Anyway, this post will get bumped whenever there is a player who is making his first appearance for the Texas Rangers in 2022.  I am going to count guys who get called up, but don’t play immediately (or sometimes don’t play at all), as they will be part of the 26 man roster officially.  Here goes:

The most recent additions will be on the top of the list.

Total players in 2022: 55
Total pitchers used in 2021: 29
Total position players used in 2021: 26
Total players making major league debut: 8

• #55 – Kevin Plawecki (Sep 21 – replacing Nick Solak (60 day DL))
• #54 – Josh Jung (Sep 9 – replacing Brad Miller (10 day DL))
• #53 – Dallas Keuchel (Aug 27 – replacing Cole Ragans (10 day DL))
• #52 – Mark Mathias (Aug 16 – replacing Elier Hernandez (DFA))
• #51 – Kohei Arihara (Aug 16 – replacing Yerry Rodriguez (optioned to AAA))
• #50 – Yerry Rodriguez (Aug 14 – replacing Matt Moore (Paternity List))
• #49 – Bubba Thompson (Aug 4 – replacing Kole Calhoun (10 day DL))
• #48 – Cole Ragans (Aug 4 – replacing Dennis Santana (10 day DL))
• #47 – Jonathan Hernandez (Jul 16 – replacing AJ Alexy (optioned to AAA))
• #46 – AJ Alexy (Jul 15 – replacing Kolby Allard (optioned to AAA))
• #45 – Elier Hernandez (Jul 14 – replacing Steven Duggar (optioned to AAA))
• #44 – Steven Duggar (Jun 26 – replacing Ezequiel Duran (optioned to AAA))
• #43 – Meibrys Viloria (Jun 21 – replacing Sam Huff (optioned to AAA))
• #42 – Jose LeClerc (Jun 16 – replacing Kolby Allard (optioned to AAA))
• #41 – Leody Taveras (Jun 13 – replacing Eli White (10 day DL))
• #40 – Jesus Tinoco (Jun 10 – replacing Glenn Otto (Covid DL))
• #39 – Tyson Miller (Jun 10 – replacing Mitch Garver (Covid DL))
• #38 – Steele Walker (Jun 5 – replacing Willie Calhoun (DFA))
• #37 – Ezequiel Duran (Jun 4 – replacing Josh Smith (10 day DL))
• #36 – Josh Smith (May 30 – replacing Brad Miller (10 day DL))
• #35 – Zach Reks (Apr 30 – replacing Spencer Howard (optioned to AAA))
• #34 – Sam Huff (Apr 28 – replacing Jonah Heim (paternity list))
• #33 – Glenn Otto (Apr 22 – replacing Jon Gray (10 day DL))
• #32 – Matt Moore (Apr 16 – replacing Josh Sborz (10 day DL))
• #31 – Nick Snyder (Apr 14 – replacing Dennis Santana (Covid DL))
• #30 – Garrett Richards (Apr 14 – replacing Spencer Howard (10 day DL))
• #29 – Spencer Patton (Apr 9 – replacing Jon Gray (10 day DL))

#28 to #1 (in alphabetical order): Albert Abreu, Kolby Allard, Joe Barlow, Brock Burke, Matt Bush, Kole Calhoun, Willie Calhoun, Charlie Culberson, Dane Dunning, Adolis Garcia, Mitch Garver, Jon Gray, Taylor Hearn, Jonan Heim, Greg Holland, Spencer Howard, Andy Ibanez, John King, Nate Lowe, Brett Martin, Brad Miller, Martin Perez, Dennis Santana, Josh Sborz, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Nick Solak, Eli White.

Players making their Making Major League Debut are bolded

Roster Notes:

• 2022 starts with a 28 man opening day roster, as a concession to the compressed spring training that resulted from the lockout.  That goes back to 26 on May 1.
• Of the opening day 28 man roster, nobody is making their major league debut. That hasn’t happened since 2010.
• Of the opening day 28 man roster, 8 players are making their Rangers debuts. (Abreu, Calhoun K, Garber, Gray, Holland, Miller, Seager, Semien)
• Previous years counts for major league debuts on opening day roster: 2021 2 (Arihara, DeGeus), 2020 (1, Taveras), 2019 (2, Bird, Dowdy), 2018 (1, Tocci), 2017 (2, Hauschild, Robinson), 2016 (1, Barnette), 2015 (6, DeShields, Kela, Klein, Rua, Smolinski, Verrett), 2014 (1, Seth Rosin), 2013 (2, Leury Garcia & Smokin’ Joe Ortiz), 2012 (2, Darvish & Ross), 2011 (1, Mason Tobin), none in 2010, 2009 (1, Elvis Andrus), and 2008 (1, Kaz Fukumori).
• Players with “xx” in front of their names on the list were players that were recalled, on the 26 man roster, but did not actually play.  The team doesn’t count those as players who played.  I do (because they were here).

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