The Rangers announced that they’ve signed left-handed reliever Neal Cotts to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Round Rock. The 36-year-old Pro Star Mangement client has spent the season pitching for the Triple-A affiliates of the Angels and Yankees, working to a combined 3.86 ERA with a 15-to-4 K/BB ratio in 21 innings.
This will mark the second stint with the Rangers for Cotts, who revitalized his career as a member of the 2013 Rangers following a three-year absence from the big leagues. Cotts has pitched in the bigs during each season since that resurgence, most recently splitting the 2015 campaign between Milwaukee and Minnesota, where he recorded a combined 3.41 ERA with 8.2 K/9 against 3.1 BB/9 in 63 1/3 innings and held lefties to a .186/.243/.330 batting line in 109 plate appearances.
Good sign
can’t hurt. nothing to lose.
The Rangers needed a LHP in the middle relief that can potentially be effective, Alex Claudio has a 5.06 ERA in 16 innings of work with 11 strikeouts. If Neal Cotts can take some pressure off the backend of the bullpen and save there arms for the Postseason its a Plus!!!
The one thing I don’t get in baseball is how a bullpen pitcher with success who isn’t in his twenties is treated. He was a very good at times great over the last 3 years. We liked him in Milwaukee and yet he couldn’t find one team to sign him to a major league contract just cause he’s not 25? He’ll be up quick with Texas and help out that bullpen.