Items out of the AL and NL West..
- Despite their acquisition of Ryan Dempster, Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports (video link) still has doubts about the Rangers' starting rotation. With Roy Oswalt being less-than-stellar for Texas, the club needs to have Matt Harrison, Derek Holland, and Yu Darvish to be exceptional in the second-half.
- Further hurting the Rangers rotation is the news that pitcher Neftali Feliz is out for the season after tearing his ulnar collateral ligament and will undergo Tommy John surgery on Wednesday, writes Richard Durrett of ESPNDallas.com. General manager Jon Daniels admitted that the club knew about Feliz's injury for a few days but didn't want to say anything until after the deadline.
- Giants GM Brian Sabean said there is flexibility to re-sign both Melky Cabrera and Hunter Pence, tweets Andrew Baggarly of CSNBayArea.com. The Giants acquired Pence from the Phillies for right fielder Nate Schierholtz and minor leaguers Seth Rosin and Tommy Joseph.
Melky and Pence on the corners, Should be an adventure at AT&T for the rest of the year.
Melky has been GREAT defensively. WAY better than I thought.
His arm, but his routes are awful
Some Rangers fans counted their chickens before they hatched proclaiming it was unreasonable to think their injured starting pitching wouldn’t be healthy …
A tad ironic that the staff with too much rotation depth for Roy Oswalt to start the season has now banished him to the bullpen due to being ineffective and had to trade for another starter.
Yea that the way baseball go.
The Giants made a fantastic deal for Pence