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Miguel Velazquez is no Ruben Mateo! After graduating Elvis Andrus, Julio Borbon, Chris Davis, Matt Harrison, Derek Holland, Tommy Hunter, Taylor Teagarden, and Brandon Boggs to the major leagues in the past two seasons and losing Eric Hurley to injury, the Rangers' minor league system has fewer well-known prospects in the No.

Before we sign off for Thanksgiving - we'll be blogging from the Cowboys game - just a couple of quick notes and random thoughts to tide you over until the dawning of Black Friday: Small consolation for Elvis Andrus, but he was named to the 2009 Topps All-Rookie team.

Elvis Andrus has earned a national honor for his excellent rookie season. Andrus was named as the shortstop to the 51st annual Topps Major League Rookie All-Star Team on Wednesday.

There's a writer in Chicago who is throwing a tantrum over Gordon Beckham not getting more support for the Rookie of the Year Award.

One of the things we've talked about is how Elvis Andrus was a particularly special player simply because of what he did this year...very few players spend a full season in the major leagues at age 20, as an every day player, and perform like he did.

The Rangers have also announced that it has purchased the contracts of left-handed pitchers Michael Kirkman and Zach Phillips, as both have been added to the 40-man roster.

It's been quite a year for 26-year-old Jeff Niemann, who entered Spring Training looking for a job on the Rays' pitching staff.

When Verlander ended the 2008 season, he had a share of the Major League lead in losses, his fastball was missing its previous life, and there were a lot of questions about whether he was healthy and whether he could be productive.

A's closer Andrew Bailey was voted American League Rookie of the Year, the seventh Oakland player to receive the honor.

The Baseball Writers' Association of America will hand out their first two postseason awards on Monday, as the American and National League Rookies of the Year will be announced.

He is going through every player in MLB who logged 20 innings or 50 at bats. It's been pretty interesting so far.

Andrew Bailey's rise from Minor League obscurity to Major League limelight is a story that won't soon be forgotten.

Baseball's Festival of Awards begins this week with the AL Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and Manager of the Year all being announced over the next three days.

The American League Gold Glove team will be announced Tuesday as baseball's awards season reaches full song for the next week.

Scott Feldman was named the Texas Rangers' Pitcher of the Year for 2009 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, it was announced on Tuesday.

The Rangers had a total of 22 Rawlings Gold Glove trophies on their roster in 2009 and made one of the biggest defensive improvements in baseball, yet for only the third time in the last 20 seasons no Texas player ended up with one of the awards.

Elvis Andrus is going to find out over the next week just how rewarding his rookie season was with the Rangers.

Crash! Burn! Anti-Madden forces march on! 3. What do the Phillies have to do this winter to stay ahead of the pack in the National League, and make it two out of three world titles? BB: I have already looked at free agent third basemen and the guy who is making me salivate is Chone Figgins.

More than any other position, there are vast differences between yearly league owners and dynasty league owners when it comes to shortstops.

Categories Chuck Morgan, the stadium voice of the Texas Rangers and inventor of the dot race, is fixin' to be honored at Dallas' Videofest next Friday, Nov.