Rangers Acquire Spilborghs

The Rangers have acquired OF Ryan Spilborghs from the Cleveland Indians for cash considerations.

Spilborghs has been added to the 40 man roster and assigned to AAA Round Rock to fill for in the DL’d Leonys Martin.  Spillborghs was a 7th round draft pick by the Rockies in 2002.  He’s a right handed batter, with a career .272 BA over six years of limited appearances with Colorado, and was with the Indians organization this season.

Rangers All-Time Team Voting Begins Today

The Rangers have been in Arlington for 40 years and are asking fans to pick the all-time Texas Rangers team.

If you want to vote on this, you can go to www.texasrangers.com/alltimeteam and cast you ballot. Voting runs through May 31, the team will be announced in June and will be honored Aug. 11 before the Rangers three-game series with the Tigers.  You vote for one player at each position except three outfielders, two starting pitchers and two relievers.

The nominees on the ballot were selected by the club’s all-time leaders in games played at each position while pitchers were selected by wins, games started, appearances and saves.

Here are the nominees

First base: Will Clark, Mike Hargrove, Pete O’Brien, Rafael Palmeiro and Mark Teixeira.

Second base: Julio Franco, Ian Kinsler, Mark McLemore, Bump Wills, Michael Young.

Shortstop: Elvis Andrus, Scott Fletcher, Toby Harrah, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Young

Third base: Buddy Bell, Hank Blalock, Steve Buechele, Toby Harrah, Dean Palmer

Outfield: Juan Beniquez, Jeff Burroughs, Nelson Cruz, Juan Gonzalez, Rusty Greer, Josh Hamilton, Pete Incaviglia, Oddibe McDowell, Kevin Mench, David Murphy, Al Oliver, Larry Parrish, Bill Sample, Ruben Sierra, Gary Ward, George Wright

Starting pitchers; Kevin Brown, Jose Guzman, Rick Helling, Charlie Hough, Ferguson Jenkins, Jon Matlack, George Medich, Kevin Millwood, Darren Oliver, Roger Pavlik, Gaylord Perry, Kenny Rogers, Nolan Ryan, Bobby Witt

Relievers: Francisco Cordero, Danny Darwin, Neftali Feliz, Frank Francisco, Tom Henke, Kenny Rogers, Jeff Russell, John Wetteland, Mitch Williams.

Designated hitter: Brian Downing, Juan Gonzalez, Tom Grieve, Rafael Palmeiro, Larry Parrish.

Feliz Next Start Pushed Back

The Rangers have pushed RHP Neftali Feliz next start back to Tuesday May 1st in Toronto, he was supposed to start Saturday night against Tampa Bay at the Ballpark.  The Rangers said they want to give him extra rest early in the season, and he is availabe to pitch out of the bullpen for tonight’s game against the Yankees.

More on the website later.

Boras: Michael Gonzalez getting close

Agent Scott Boras, in town for Ivan Rodriguez’s retirement ceremony, said left-handed reliever Michael Gonzalez is close to being fully recovered from off-season knee surgery. Gonzalez, who is a free agent, is starting to throw bullpens for interested teams.

“He should sign in the next ten days,” Boras said.

Gonzalez spent the last month of the 2011 season with the Rangers and was on their post-season roster. The Rangers offered him a Minor League contract in Spring Training but he declined it.

 

Beltre, Miller update

Third baseman Adrian Beltre’s MRI showed only a mild strain of the left hamstring and no tear. He is officially listed as day-to-day but was not in the lineup on Monday night. Michael Young started at third base with Brandon Snyder at designated hitter.
Rangers pitcher Justin Miller has a torn ligament in his right elbow that will require Tommy John reconstruction surgery and will sideline him for at least a year. Miller was with the Rangers in Spring Training and was optioned to Triple A Round Rock. But he has not yet pitched in a game.
“It was a one-time thing,” farm director Tim Purpura said. “He had some pain, we had it looked at and found it was torn. There was no knowledge beforehand there was anything wrong. It’s regrettable.
The Rangers released Miller in order to make room on the 40-man rroster. Purpura said the Rangers intend on re-signing him at some point. Miller was a 16th round pick for the Rangers in 2008 out of Fresno State and was 9-1 with a 1.81 ERA in 48 games at Double A Frisco last season.

Beltre leaves game strained left hamstring

Adrian Beltre left Saturday’s game when he injured his left hamstring on a second-inning double. He was replaced by Alberto Gonzalez. No word get on the extent of the injury but Beltre missed five weeks last summer with a pulled left hamstring. Right now he is listed as day to day.

Rangers game postponed

The Rangers game with the Tigers on Friday night has been postponed. It will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday. The first game will start at 12;05 p.m. (CT) and the second game will start at 6:05 p.m. (CT)

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