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Four arbitration eligible players were offered contracts by the Rangers yesterday. They are: Alfonso Soriano, Gary Matthews Jr, Rod Barajas, & Carlos Almanzar.
More info is at the Rangers site here.

The Rangers today re-signed Jeff Zimmerman to a minor league contract, where he’ll continue his lengthy rehab assignment. In the news story about the signing, the words “he was loyal to the Rangers so we wanted to be loyal to him”. I thought Rusty Greer was loyal, too? Where’s the love for the Red Baron?

The Rangers finally signed someone who actually WANTED to play here; I felt it took too long to get this deal done. We signed David Dellucci to a 2 year contract. He’s not the sexiest name out there, but he did bring a good veteran leadership to this club last year. We could do a lot worse.
Story on mlb.com about this.

The Rangers also signed utility infielder Greg Colbrunn over the past week to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training. I’m pretty indifferent towards this signing. He strikes me as much the same kind of player that Dellucci is. If he can prove he’s not hurt, he’ll probably stick, and basically have the role the Herbert Perry had the last few years (when he wasn’t hurt).
I don’t know much about Colbrunn, here’s his stats from baseball-reference.com.

The Rangers wasted no time with the opening of today’s Winter meetings to sign Richard Hidalgo to a 1 year contract. This is probably a good signging, provided he stays healthy, unlike last year’s import to play RF.

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