Texas Rangers News

For fans and players, spring training may be all about optimism. For those who put together the teams and those who chronicle those efforts, however, it is all about answering questions.

The Rangers hit .257 against left-handed pitchers in 2009, the fourth lowest batting average in the American League.

The Texas Rangers asked Kasey Kiker to show them something last year, his fourth in an organization that made him its No.

Evan Grant has a blog post up in which he has various questions that readers wanted him to ask personnel or players, along with the answers he got.

Rangers catching prospect Tomas Telis, who made his U.S. debut last year at the age of 17, is expected to miss all of 2010 after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.

Financially strapped owner Tom Hicks is exploring a possible sale of the Dallas Stars.

Received the 2010 Baseball America Prospect Handbook in the mail yesterday. If you are a minor league junkie and don't have one, I can't endorse it enough.

Suggested motto for the AL West: If you can't beat 'em, raid 'em. After watching the Angels win three consecutive division titles, the Rangers and Mariners went roster poaching and landed three players who had been vital to the Angels' success.

Give it a couple of weeks, and pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Surprise, Ariz.

Fort Hood's Warrior Transition Brigade consists of ill or injured soldiers who need six months or more of treatment to recover physically.

Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks faces a new lawsuit as he prepares to sell the baseball team.

Texas Rangers pitching prospects Omar Beltre and Alexi Ogando, banned from setting foot on United States soil the last five years because of their parts in a visa fraud ring, are expected to gain admittance to the U.S. in the next few weeks.

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Only the desire for autographs of star players outweighed the desire to get indoors Saturday during the Texas Rangers Fan Fest.

Michael Young's stranglehold on the Texas Rangers' Player of the Year Award tightened a little bit more Friday night.

The Rangers, owners of one lone postseason win in franchise history, have an opportunity to play in the World Series during our lifetime because Tom Hicks has agreed to sell the club to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan.

The DMN's Evan Grant, via Twitter from the Rangers Mid-Winter Awards Banquet in Fort Worth, reports that the club has signed pitcher Scott Feldman to a $2.425 million deal.

The Texas Rangers will be accepting donations tomorrow for the Haitian Earthquake Relief effort.

Wake up and take note, the Texas Rangers have a solid starting rotation. It is not as good from top to bottom as the Los Angeles Angels, but it is very close.

A former Purdue standout, Hilligoss enjoyed one of the best all-around seasons in RiverDogs history as the team's third baseman in 2007.