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Rangers See Reward in Neftali Feliz Risk

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- No one can accuse the Texas Rangers of not being risk-takers. The Rangers are taking one of their 2010 breakout stars, closer Neftali Feliz, and giving him a chance to make the starting rotation. It's not the kind of move that most defending American League champions make. Feliz saved 40 games last...

Texas Rangers 2010 Primer

With a new emphasis on pitching and defense, the 2009 Texas Rangers allowed more than 200 fewer runs than they did in 2008. Sure, they scored 117 less, but the massive improvement in run prevention ended up making the Rangers eight wins better. Their 87-75 record was the best for the franchise since 2004 and had them in...

Randy Wolf Provides All the Run Support He Needs

Randy Wolf was good on Sunday. Really good.Let's start with his 7.2 innings of work on the mound. Wolf gave up three earned runs and five hits. But he struck out an amazing ten batters while walking none. And this isn't the first good outing for Wolf in a while. In fact, quite the opposite.If you take out the four earned...

MLB Trade Deadline 2009: Winners, Losers and Everything in Between

So you thought that once Matt Holliday went to St. Louis and Cliff Lee wound up with the Phillies deadline day itself would be anticlimactic? Hardly. Three All-Stars, including a former Rookie of the Year and Cy Young, went elsewhere on July 31, and all that happened while the biggest name on the market all month, Roy...

Rangers Lose Matt Harrison for Season

On Thursday, Matt Snyder ranked the 10 worst deadline deals of this decade, and at No. 3 on the list was the Atlanta Braves getting Mark Teixeira from Texas for Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Elvis Andrus, Neftali Feliz, Beau Jones and Matt Harrison. There was some debate amongst FanHouse writers on how to rank this deal, but in...

Matt Harrison News From the Web

05/29/12 Napoli, Cruz homer for Rangers in 4-2 win over Ms Source: NBC - WOAI News 4 - San Antonio TX Mike Napoli and Nelson Cruz both homered before combining on a big defensive play, and Matt Harrison pitched eight strong innings to lead the Texas Rangers past the Seattle Mariners 4-2 on Monday night.
05/23/12 Grueling 20-day stretch reaches end for Texas Source: MLB - Texas Rangers Wednesday's game with the Mariners ends the Rangers' stretch of playing 20 games in 20 days.
05/23/12 Matt Harrison shuts down Seattle in 3-1 Texas win Source: The Daily World - Aberdeen WA Elvis Andrus lined a two-strike pitch into the left-center field gap for a two-run triple, Josh Hamilton made two tremendous catches in center field and added an RBI double, and the Texas Rangers snapped Seattle's win streak at four with a 3-1 win over the Mariners on Tuesday night.
05/23/12 Rangers Rotation Set For Extra Day Source: NBC DFW Locals Only. The Texas Rangers will play a day game in Seattle today, and when the game ends they will have finished a stretch of 19 games in 20 days and 15 games in 14 days because of the doubleheader in Baltimore.
05/23/12 Matt Harrison Comes Through As Needed Source: NBC DFW Locals Only. On Tuesday, we wrote that it was high time Matt Harrison got back on track.