Today is arbitration day. When the formal announcement is made, I’ll update again, but I’ve made changes to the roster page on some of the obvious players that are not coming back.
Rusty Greer Finished as a Ranger
There was a disturbing headline in today’s DMN entitled “Greer Finished as a Ranger“. That’s really depressing. I think we all knew it was coming, but to see it in print is really sad. I hope he says “I’m done”, and takes the front office job, although I still think he’ll make a great hitting coach to someone. Hope Omar Minaya in New York doesn’t figure that out.
Winter Baseball TV Alert!
Tomorrow night on Fox Sports Southwest, they’re running what essentially amounts to a “2004 Wrapup & 2005 Preview” show. It’s on FSN at 630PM CST on Wed the 8th (repeated on Dec 24 at 10PM). Also, ESPN will be running a 90 minute episode of Baseball Tonight this coming Friday night the 10th at 1:30PM CST. Check that out, too!
Spring Training Schedule Announced
The Rangers have released their Spring Training Schedule for 2005, and I’ve updated my schedule pages with that information. Highlights include 12 radio games and 3 (maybe more) TV games (although the TV games haven’t been announced yet).
Roster Transaction
- P Michael Tejera signed to a 1 year AAA
contract with an invite to spring training [
link ]
Rudy Jaramillo FINALLY re-signed
The best off season move we could make was made yesterday. Rudy Jaramillo was signed to a three year contract as hitting coach. Additionally, all of our other coaches will be back for 2005.
There’s an article over at the Dallas Morning News website about this.
This is a long overdue move. While I didn’t like the uncertainty, I don’t begrudge him the opportunity he had to interview for the Mets’ GM position. Likewise, if another GM post comes up before his contract is over, I’ll be sad that he left, but I wouldn’t mind it for that reason. Now, if he went somewhere else to be a hitting coach, that I’d have a problem with.
Roster Transaction
- P Chris Young signed to a 3 year contract plus
team option year [
link ] - P Ruddy Yan claimed off waivers from Chicago
White Sox, placed on 40 man roster - The following players were signed to 1 year
minor league contracts with invites to spring training: P Rosman Garcia, John
Wasdin, Lou Pote, Augstin Montero, Shane Bazzell, Vladimir Nunez, Jose Veras,
& Jason Standridge – IF Manny Alexander & Esteban German – OF Chad Allen,
Jason Conti, and Andres Torres. [
link ] - The following players were signed to 1 year
minor league contracts and were not invited to spring training: IF Jason Hart
& SS Jace Brewer. - The following players were added to the 40 man
roster: OF Jason Botts, P Josh Rupe, P Nick Masset, P Augustin Montero.
Roster Transaction
- P Doug Brocail re-signed to a 1 year contract
[
link ]
Buck Showalter wins AL Manager of the Year!
Buck Showalter has won the AL Manager of the Year award! Congratulations to Buck!! I can’t think of a manager more deserving. Granted, he’s my home team manager, so I tend to be biased towards that, but for a manager that took a team that was expected to lose 100+ games and have them up for division lead with less than 10 games to go in the season – that’s a MAJOR accomplishment. Here’s a few news stories about this:
Roster Transaction
- P Juan Dominguez activated from 60 day DL
- P Ricardo Rodriguez activated from 60 day DL [
link ]
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