Injuries leave Texas Rangers' rotation reeling

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Dallas Morning News: Injuries leave Texas Rangers’ rotation reeling (RR)
Published 3/12/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Dallas Morning News: Injuries leave Texas Rangers’ rotation reeling (RR) As the Rangers reached the mid-point of the exhibition schedule Tuesday, Vicente Padilla became the third member of the planned rotation to suffer an injury. Padilla suffered a strained left gluteus maximus muscle in the fourth inning of a 7-5 10-inning win over Chicago. Before he could become the butt of any jokes, Padilla took himself out of the game, but the Rangers’ initial indications are that it is a minor injury. Then again, opening day starter Kevin Millwood suffered what was described as a minor ...

Walkoff ‘Cruz Missile’ Powers Rangers To 7-5 Win
Published 3/12/2008 by Joey Matschulat at Baseball Time in Arlington
... , making his third start of the spring on Tuesday afternoon against a righty-heavy White Sox lineup, was yanked after just 3.2 innings of work (and shy of his 60-pitch limit) due to what Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News is terming as a strained left gluteus maximus muscle: ...

Spring Injuries: Beckett Out, Rangers’ Rotation
Published 3/12/2008 by Cory Humes at Comments on: Fantasy
... Sixty percent of the Texas Rangers’ starting rotation is injured. Kevin Millwood tweaked a hammy; Brandon McCarthy has inflammation in his elbow; now Vicente Padilla strained his butt. Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News has the scoop—and an eye-rolling one-liner in the second paragraph—here. ...

Red Sox Not Interested In Chris Capuano
Published 3/12/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... the season begins.  I agree with MLBTR readers that Capuano is the most likely to go.  Just seems like he needs a change of scenery.  Salary comparison: Capuano makes $3.75MM, Claudio Vargas makes $3.6MM, and Dave Bush makes $2.55MM.  Bush has a year less service time than the other two.  The Cardinals would be a great match for any of these guys if they weren't in the Brewers' division.  One fit could be the Rangers, who have an ailing rotation right now. ...

Wednesday morning stuff
Published 3/12/2008 by Adam J. Morris <info@lonestarball.com> at Lone Star Ball: Front Page Posts
Evan Grant talks about the health issues with the rotation this spring, although he also indicates that the rotation looks like it is pretty well set at this point. Grant says that, with Kevin Millwood and Vicente Padilla both looking like they should be ready to go to start the season despite some minor injury issues this spring, the only switch from the expected rotation to start the season is Luis Mendoza stepping in for Brandon McCarthy. Grant has a couple of quotes from folks praising Mendoza's performance this spring: Grant also says that Sidney Ponson appears headed ...

Rangers Rotation
Published 3/12/2008 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
... . He also shows the injured Brandon McCarthy has team spirit : "He doesn't pitch scared, and he knows what he's doing," Millwood said of Mendoza. "It's nice to see a young guy step in there and look like he belongs. I wouldn't want to be the guy waiting on him to mess up because I don't think he will." Said McCarthy, ostensibly the guy who would be waiting on Mendoza: "I'm fully expecting when he gets to the big leagues that he's not going back. I hope he makes it tougher than hell for me to get my spot back." The Rangers starters were soft last year. McCarthy understands ...

Catching Up
Published 3/12/2008 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... The Rangers have had injuries to three projected starters: Vicente Padilla (strained left gluteus maximus), Kevin Millwood (a hamstring tweak that has prevented him from facing any batters so far), and Brandon McCarthy (elbow inflammation that — so far — will not require surgery). ...