Texas Rangers News

Ron Washington took a seat in the home dugout at Texas’ stadium for the first time Saturday and enjoyed the view. “It’s a beautiful ballpark,” he said. A few hours later, his Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on Nelson Cruz’s one-out homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Robinson Tejeda yielded one hit [...]

Barry Zito thought about the San Francisco Giants’ chances and was pretty pleased. Payroll no longer is supreme when it comes to World Series titles. “In 2002, the wild card won. In ‘03 the wild card won. And in ‘04, Boston was the wild card and won,” he said. “That’s what’s great about baseball.” [...]

To get inside players’ heads, check these Q&A’s from players on teams in the American League West. For more 2007 preview info, get this week’s Sporting News.

Eric Gagne will start the season on the disabled list for the Texas Rangers, a move the team is making to give the closer more time to come back from elbow and back operations. The Rangers said Gagne hasn’t had any health setbacks. The 2003 NL Cy Young Award winner has pitched only 15 1-3 [...]

Although he will play for a new team in a different league, Eric Gagne will begin this season in a familiar place - the disabled list.

With the first pitch ready to be thrown, we take a look at who will shine and who will flop in 2007.

As spring training winds down, Richie Sexson is beginning to heat up. The Mariners’ slow-starting slugger had three hits, including his second home run of the spring, and two RBIs in Seattle’s 11-8 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday in the final exhibition game in Arizona for the Mariners’ regulars.

The Texas Rangers optioned right-handed relievers Frank Francisco and Wes Littleton to Triple-A Oklahoma on Wednesday. After going 2-1 with a 1.73 ERA in 33 appearances as a rookie for the Rangers last spring, Littleton has struggled this spring. He was 0-2 with a 15.00 ERA in seven games, allowing 10 runs and 10 hits, [...]

Former Major League baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted murder of five workers on his family’s ranch, the Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday. Urbina, a former pitcher with the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies, was also found guilty [...]

Greg Maddux looked sharp in his last spring training start and the San Diego Padres put on quite the power display to back him. Maddux had his longest outing of the spring, giving up two runs and striking out five in six innings, and San Diego banged out a spring-high 25 hits in a [...]