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Rangers Sign Seth Maness

By Jeff Todd | May 2, 2019 at 5:39pm CDT

The Rangers have agreed to a deal with righty Seth Maness, the club announced. It’s a minor-league arrangement.

Maness, 30, carries a 3.21 ERA in 247 career relief innings at the game’s highest level. Though he managed only 5.7 K/9 in that span, he succeeded by carrying a strong 59.0% groundball rate and limiting the free passes (1.7 per nine).

Unfortunately, elbow problems intervened. Maness earned a $1.4MM salary as a Super Two in 2016 but was non-tendered by the Cardinals that fall. He ultimately became the first big league hurler to undergo a Tommy John-alternative procedure to address damage to his ulnar collateral ligament.

Though he made it back to the majors in ’17 with the Royals, Maness received only an eight-game showing. He was not terribly effective during his post-surgical action at Triple-A, allowing eighty hits and 38 earned runs in 58 2/3 innings.

Since opting out of his deal with the Royals this time last year in hopes of finding a chance to work as a starter, Maness had not reappeared in the affiliated ranks. He’s back now with the Texas organization after evidently showing something in his brief time with the Atlantic League’s High Point Rockers. Maness will get the start tonight for Triple-A Nashville, the Rangers announced.

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  1. lilpartialbaldo

    6 years ago

    Beauty comes in many forms.

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  2. saintchristafa

    6 years ago

    * Unfortunately, Matheny problems intervened.*

    Fixed it!!

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    • stan lee the manly

      6 years ago

      Matheny chewed this guy up and spit him out. Good luck Texas

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  3. Oxford Karma

    6 years ago

    The Rangers really work the clearance bin when it comes to pitching. Hope it works out for the guy.

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    • Texas two stepping

      6 years ago

      We have a rule this year, If you haven’t had Tommy John or an alternative procedure,we don’t want you. It’s that simple. On a serious note we hope he does good.

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  4. jorge78

    6 years ago

    The cavalry is here!

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  5. DarkSide830

    6 years ago

    should be a great get if healthy. wonder how the guy who suggested him as an option for DET feels about this. Regardless, im curious to see of they try him in the rotation at some point this year.

    Reply
  6. stgpd

    6 years ago

    Good luck to him. He rocked it as a Cardinal. Unfortunately over used

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    • themed

      6 years ago

      Overused indeed. Unfortunately he was the only one in the bullpen at the time that could get anyone out.

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    • Monkey’s Uncle

      6 years ago

      He was great at cleaning up other pitcher’s messes. If he came into a game with runners on base, I fully expected a double-play grounder.

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  7. jefftoddwalkerbuehler

    6 years ago

    High Point Rockers, currently with Tyler Ladendorf and Akeel Morris on their roster for their inaugural season. Their logo is a rocking chair. Useless facts of the night provided by this baseball addicted sleepless dad of a newborn.

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    • ncbrave

      6 years ago

      The rocking chair is because at one time highpoint NC was the furniture capital of the world.

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      • jefftoddwalkerbuehler

        6 years ago

        Oh more useless facts that I love, thanks! I read that they were almost called the Splinters.

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    • spudchukar

      6 years ago

      Maness had 1 start with the rockers. 6 innings, 1 run, 5 K’s. Must have looked impressive or else the competition was deemed fierce.

      Reply
  8. Fire Jon Daniels

    6 years ago

    If you’ve ever thrown a baseball in your life, call Jon and you’ll probably get a minor league deal.

    Reply
  9. ba2929

    6 years ago

    FYI your twitter picture is him on the Royals.

    I’m sure you guys have some sort of Getty Image sub so you might want to change it.

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    • Steve Adams

      6 years ago

      Well, yeah. They were the most recent team with which he appeared. Teams don’t immediately take photos of their new signees in their new uniform and submit them to Getty, USA Today, etc. We used the Royals photo because that’s the most recent image of him in any publicly available database. There’s no image of him in Rangers gear to use.

      Reply
  10. spinach

    6 years ago

    Is he trying to come back as a starter? Article should address.

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    • Texas two stepping

      6 years ago

      Pitched 6 innings the other night for the farm and gave up 4 runs and took the loss.

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