Cruz's $16 Mil Deal With Rangers Is Backloaded
Under the agreement announced Friday, Cruz's 2013 salary can rise by an additional $500,000 based on plate appearances in 2012.
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Under the agreement announced Friday, Cruz's 2013 salary can rise by an additional $500,000 based on plate appearances in 2012.
Catcher Mike Napoli and the Texas Rangers have finalized a $9.4 million, one-year contract, avoiding a salary arbitration hearing.
Why would people show up at a store in Hurst before 9 A.M. with the temperature below freezing and a biting north wind? To get a chance for an autograph of Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton.
Famed former MLB pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd admits to being under the influence of cocaine in "two-thirds" of the games he pitched.
When Josh Hamilton held a press conference last week to discuss his relapse with alcohol, everyone had assumed that would be the end of it.
A 31-year-old slugging outfielder, Cruz had asked for $7.5 million in arbitration and the team had offered $5.5 million. He made $3.65 million last year.
Shortstop Elvis Andrus and the Texas Rangers have finalized a $14.4 million, three-year contract that avoided salary arbitration.
When Rangers Baseball Express demolished Vandergriff Plaza behind the center field wall in November, the bleacher seats came down along with it. But instead of ending up in a Dumpster, the rows of timeworn bleachers have landed on the Rangers's official auction site.
Hamilton and the Rangers both said aloud that contract talks, which were expected to get going soon, will be tabled indefinitely while he and they try to figure out where he went wrong and how it happened.
The Rangers first hired Michael Dean Chadwick, Josh Hamilton's stepdad, to be the slugger's accountability partner. But Chadwick turned down the job.
Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton has been to New York to visit with the doctors for Major League Baseball, following his admitted relapse with alcohol.
A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press the Texas Rangers and shortstop Elvis Andrus have agreed to a three-year contract, avoiding a salary arbitration hearing.
Football season is over. Pitchers and catchers report for spring training later this month. Baseball is in the air! And, before long, the games will be on the air.
Left-handed reliever Joe Beimel and first baseman-outfielder Conor Jackson have agreed to minor league contracts with the Texas Rangers.
Texas Rangers outfielder and recovering drug addict Josh Hamilton says he had a relapse and had "three or four'' drinks earlier this week.
