March 29, 2007
Rangers Rotation
Evan Grant details the decisions made to set the Texas pitching staff. There's a handy chart at the bottom of the article that goes over all the pitchers with their highlights or lowlights from spring training.
It looks like Texas is one of many teams that will use starter number 5 sparingly in April:
Wright: Though he will be the team's fifth starter, he will pitch only three times in April while the Rangers keep the other members of the rotation on a regular routine. Wright has agreed to extend his minor league deal, which was supposed to end Wednesday, through the first week of April to allow him to pitch twice more before his April 10 start against Tampa Bay. He will pitch Friday's exhibition in Frisco and on April 5 for the Roughriders.
This is a good compromise between a four-name rotation and using a fifth starter every game. I don't know why teams don't do this all season and squeeze a couple of more starts out of each of the top four starters.
Posted by David Pinto at
08:08 AM
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