Neftali Feliz News

Acquired as a free agent in 2009. CURRENT STATUS: Off Season ASSETS: An elite batsman and Gold Glove-caliber 1B.

Would have gotten to this sooner, but, hey, Roddy Piper was the guest host on RAW last night.

The Hot Stove league, where players start swapping teams during baseball's off-season, begins in earnest today as free agents begin negotiating with other clubs and signing contracts for the 2010 season.

The Rangers, faced with the real possibility of Marlon Byrd not coming back, will be look for a right-handed bat when the free agency bidding officially begins at 11:01 p.m. CT on Thursday night.

Edwin Jackson went 3-9 with a 3.62 ERA in 214 innings last year with Detroit. He has a 3.25 ERA in four career starts in Arlington against the Rangers.

Perhaps the biggest news to come out of last week's GM meetings was that the Detroit Tigers might need to shed significant payroll and that could make a slew of still-young, but established players available.

In six starts last season, Tampa Bay's Wade Davis went 2-2 with a 3.72 ERA. AP The Rising Stars game a couple weeks ago in the Arizona Fall League featured plenty of young talent, but it wasn't the prospect showcase that it could have been.

Looks like most of the newspaper staff in town have been assigned to the Cowboys this weekend.

The Rangers may be in the unusual position of being able to trade starting pitching this offseason.

They have 2 very promising young arms already established in the rotation to go with Kevin Millwood and Brandon McCarthy , and I read that they are seriously considering converting Neftali Feliz and C.J.Wilson to starters.

The Rangers are going into baseball's free-agency period hoping to re-sign Marlon Byrd and could come out of it with Jermaine Dye instead.

Just want to get that out there. I hate the Phillies too but I hate Mark Teixeira more.

Tim Scheppers or Crow? Jim Callis If you can guarantee health, I'd take Scheppers.

Who would you prefer to see win? Cast your vote... Poll Who do you want to see win the 2009 World Series? 0 recs 71 comments Comments Meh... I hate the Yanks and their fans.

One less prospect for the 2010 Handbook : Yusei Kikuchi decided Sunday that he won't follow Junichi Tazawa's path.

Vin Mazzaro, rhp, Sacramento 11. Bud Norris, rhp, Round Rock 12. Esmil Rogers, rhp, Colorado Springs 13.

Here's the post-mortem on the pithcers list from the 2009 book. With this finished, I'm now delving into writing player comments, beginning with the Twins.

The Dodgers are easily the most interesting team to watch this post season. WTF is there to enjoy watching Yanks-Angels? I'm rooting for some wholesomely debilitating swine flu, and perhaps a slip and fall or three Best case scenario: Arod cranks a liner right into the melon of that no-talent hack of a girlfriend, and Jeets pulls his groin on a ...

Give the Texas Rangers credit. They possess the ability to make news during the playoffs even without participating in them.

Will hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo be back or is it time to get a new hitting coach? -- Melissa W. Plano, Texas The Rangers have asked Jaramillo to return as hitting coach.