{"id":5571,"date":"2013-12-12T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2013-12-12T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:55:17","slug":"rangers-add-series-of-players-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/12\/rangers-add-series-of-players-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers add series of players to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5572\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/brentlillibridge.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/brentlillibridge.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/brentlillibridge-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Texas Rangers added a slue of infielders and relief pitchers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Mathis, 30, is one of the players the Rangers signed. He spent the 2008-2010 seasons with the team but has not appeared in the major leagues since. He will get an invite to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers also added Armando Rodriguez, 26, to a minor league deal. Rodriguez pitched at two different minor league levels last season for the New York Mets. He&#8217;s nothing more than minor league depth at this point but the Rangers will give him a look.<\/p>\n<p>It was not just pitchers that the Rangers signed. They also added some infielders.<\/p>\n<p>Once a top prospect Kevin Kouzmanoff, 32, signed a minor league deal with the club which will also see him arrive at spring training. He has not appeared in a major league game since 2011 and appears ticketed for Triple-A in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers also came to terms with Josh Wilson and Brent Lillibridge. Both players have been invited to spring training and one could make the club as infield depth.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, 32, hit .200\/.262\/.300 in 65 plate appearances with Arizona last season. His best asset is his versatility. <\/p>\n<p>The same is true for Lillibridge who appeared in 20 big league games last season. He&#8217;s not much of a contact hitter but does offers some surprise pop in his bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers added a slue of infielders and relief pitchers on Thursday. Doug Mathis, 30, is one of the players the Rangers signed. He spent the 2008-2010 seasons with the team but has not appeared in the major leagues since. He will get an invite to spring training. The Rangers also added Armando Rodriguez, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[560,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brent-lillibridge","9":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}