The Texas Rangers placed second baseman Ian Kinsler on the 15 day disabled list with bruised ribs and recalled infielder Jurickson Profar  to take his place on the roster.  the move was retroactive to Saturday and became necessary when Kinsler was  unable to swing a bat Sunday. Profar, 20, entered the 2013 season as the number one prospect in all of baseball. Profar is batting  .278/ .370/ .438 with six ste ...

Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus helped lead the Rangers in their 7-2 victory against the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night, collecting a career-high five hits in the process. Andrus would finish the game going 5 for 5 with a double and triple, while scoring three times and driving in two runs of his own. The Texas shortstop also swiped two bases, raising his season total to 12, and raised his batting av ...

The Texas Rangers finally placed catcher  A.J. Pierzynski  on the 15 day disabled list with a strained right abdominal muscle.  An MRI confirmed the injury. Pierzynski was hitting .263 with four home runs and 11 RBI in 26 games for the Rangers, who signed him to a one-year contract last December. Robinson Chirinos will be recalled from Triple-A Round Rock before Friday's game in Houston. Chirinos has a .295 ...

Colby Lewis is hoping to begin a rehab assignment on May 9th in AAA Round Rock. Lewis has been a key arm in the Texas Rangers' rotation since their rise to prominence in 2010 but is likely considered an after-thought so far in 2013. Though Lewis and fellow rotation stalwart, Matt Harrison are both injured and on the DL, Texas leads the AL in team ERA (3.21) and is third in the AL in starter ERA at 3.30. Mar ...

In his first start of the season, Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish was perfect for 8 2/3 innings against the Astros in Houston. The 26-year-old Darvish struck out 14 batters and threw 111 pitches. Marwin Gonzalez  singled on the first pitch he saw from Darvish with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, ending his bid to pitch the 24th perfect game in Major League history.  Michael Kirkman  finished the game ...

The Texas Rangers have reached an agreement with shortstop Elvis Andrus on a contract extension of $120 million.  Andrus  will be guaranteed $131.275 million over 10 years,  counting the $11.275 million he had left on his existing contract.  the deal was reportedly worked out over the last several days,  and was first reported by Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. Andrus, 24, joins second baseman Ian Kinsler  who ...

The case for signing free agent pitcher Kyle Lohse  got a little better today when Texas Rangers left-hander Martin Perez  suffered a broken ulna in his left forearm when he was struck by a line drive during the sixth inning of Sunday's 7-6 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Perez  Will not resume throwing for approximately 4 weeks. "I didn't see where it hit him. He was on the ground and I just ran out to see h ...

Free agent right-hander Kyle Lohse  remains on the  market and according to Jeff Wilson of the Star-Telegram, the Rangers have remained in contact with Lohse and agent Scott Boras. Lohse  Has been  unable to attract much interest from teams this off-season, largely because of  draft pick compensation rules. Any team that signs Lohse  would have to surrender their number one pick St. Louis Cardinals.  For th ...

One strike away from winning the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011 only to see David Freese turn their celebration into heartache, the Texas Rangers lost the American League West to Oakland on the last day of the 2012 campaign and then were dismissed from the wild card game by Baltimore. This year, the Rangers lineup will be without Josh Hamilton (Angels) and Mike Napoli (Red Sox), who bo ...

With the ever rising cost of offense, more and more teams are looking to platoons as a low-cost, high-reward alternative. Even though penny-pinching organizations like the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays have long been using the platoon, now even bigger market teams--like the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox--are beginning to join the fray. Below is an in-depth, projected list of th ...

Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz became the latest major league player to deny any connection Miami-based clinic that allegedly supplied Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) to a number of major-league players. Cruz was linked by the Miami New Times to Biogenesis along with Alex Rodriguez, Yasmani Grandal, Bartolo Colon and Gio Gonzalez. Rodriguez and Gonzalez also denied any involvement with the clinic o ...

After back-to-back American League pennants, the Texas Rangers saw an early exit from the AL playoffs last October. This season, the club will have a different look without outfielder Josh Hamilton and catcher/first baseman Mike Napoli, but optimism is high in Texas because of an array of promising prospects, including 19-year-old shortstop Jurickson Profar, 24-year-old corner infielder Mike Olt, and 24-yea ...

The Texas Rangers have reached an agreement and avoided arbitration with leftfielder David Murphy on a one-year deal worth $5.75 million. The Rangers exchanged arbitration figures with Murphy on Friday and the two sides are about $1.5 million apart. Murphy, who is expected to be Texas' everyday left fielder, asked for $6.5 million and the Rangers offered $5.05 million. General manager Jon Daniels had previo ...

The Texas Rangers have reached an agreement on a contract extension with All-Star left-hander Matt Harrison on a five-year deal worth $55 million. The deal will also include a club option for 2018 that can also be vested. Harrison was in his second year of arbitration eligibility and would have become a free agent after the 2014 season. Over the last two seasons, Harrison is 32-20 with a 3.34 ERA in 399 reg ...