Last week, we learned that the Angels were making progress towards a new deal with shortstop Erick Aybar. Today, Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times says that Aybar is believed to be looking for at least five years and $50 million.
Even though the Angels “would prefer to sign Aybar for something closer to the [...]
04/16/12
The Texas Rangers have signed Ian Kinsler to a five-year contract extension worth $75mm, Jeff Wilson of The Fort-Worth Star Telegram reports. The deal also includes an option year with a $5mm buyout (deal worth $70mm), Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News adds. The Rangers hold a $10mm option for next season on Kinsler [...]
04/10/12
The Texas Rangers and second baseman Ian Kinsler are discussing a six-year extension, though the two sides have yet to agree on financial terms, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports. Kinsler will become a free agent after the season if the Rangers do not exercise his $10mm option for 2013, which in all likelihood they [...]
04/04/12
Now that the Rangers have extended Derek Holland, Elvis Andrus and Nelson Cruz, the next step would be to evaluate the possibility of giving a contract extension to Josh Hamilton. We all know what Hamilton is capable of doing when he’s healthy, and the Rangers should strongly consider extending considering all that they have invested in [...]
03/21/12
The second financial efficiency report we’re going to discuss is for the World Series’ runner up, the Texas Rangers.
The Rangers won 96 regular season games, or 47 above the 49 games win line. They paid $92,299,264 in total salaries meaning they paid $1,721,324.77 for every win they got above 49.
Their top five paid players were:
– [...]
12/09/11
Last night in the bottom of the seventh, Matt Kemp crushed a solo home run to deep center, something he has been doing all season.
This was no ordinary home run though, as it was his 30th of the season to go along with 33 steals which made him the newest member of the 30/30 club.
Kemp [...]
08/27/11
According to Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler, the team visited for the second time free agent Cliff Lee in his home at Arkansas (via Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Jeff Wilson). GM Jon Daniels confirmed the visit to Lee. Daniels and Nolan Ryan made the trip to Arkansas.
Kinsler first revealed the meeting during a radio program earlier [...]
12/01/10
Although the Rangers’ top priority this winter is to sign Cliff Lee, ESPN.com’s Buster Olney believes slugger Adam Dunn could be a good fit for the Rangers. The Rangers are an extremely offensive team, and they haven’t decided yet if they’re going to re- sign Vladimir Guerrero. If they don’t re-sign Guerrero they could turn [...]
11/25/10
Here are a couple of videos from last Friday where Texas Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler came back onto the field to celebrate Nelson Cruz’s walk-off home run.
You can click here to see the first video where Kinsler is arguing balls and strikes in the bottom of the 10th inning. Click here.
Here’s the second [...]
09/14/10
Here’s the latest from FOXSports’ Ken Rosenthal via his Full Count Video:
The addition of relief pitcher Brian Fuentes to the Minnesota Twins’ bullpen via trade from the Los Angeles Angels adds almost $2 million more to the Twins’ payroll, but it could be well worth it. Fuentes gives the Twins another closing option, but he [...]
08/28/10