Day 6 in the Sonora Desert…Kris Benson

Pitching watch: The Rangers are accepted,1 to sign pitcher Kris Benson to a Minor League arrangement,Cheap Brands Snapback Hats,1 with an invitation to Spring Training, possibly this weekend. He recently threw for the Rangers and showed abundant,1 to be offered a contract.

Benson hasn’t pitched in the Major Leagues back,1 2006 when he was 11-12 with a 4.82 ERA for the Orioles. He missed all of 2007 with a broken,1 rotator belt,1 and was 1-4 with a 5.52 ERA in 11 starts for the Triple A Lehigh Valley IronPigs in 2008.
Contract watch: The Rangers also appear,Newspaper Briefing, including Has Citigroup alread,1 on Friday they had signed 16 players to one-year contracts: pitchers John Bannister, Scott Feldman, Kason Gabbard, Matt Harrison, Tommy Hunter, Luis Mendoza, Dustin Nippert,Wholesale Atlanta Braves Hats, Omar Poveda and Josh Rupe, catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, infielders Jose Vallejo and Joaquin Arias and outfielders Brandon Boggs, Greg Golson, Nelson Cruz and David Murphy. All are in the $400,000 to $435,000 ambit,1.
“He’s got that attending,1 of the tiger in his eye. He wants to be the man.”
Benson, the No. 1 overall abstract,1 pick by the Pirates in 1996, is 68-73 with a 4.34 ERA in 195 careers starts with Pittsburgh, the Mets and the Orioles. He won a career-high 12 amateur,1 with the Pirates and Mets in 2004.
He said it
He would accord,1 the Rangers some experience and depth in their starting circling,1, similar to what happened last year if,1 they signed Sidney Ponson and John Patterson in Spring Training.
“We’re accepting,cheap NHL Snapback Hats,1 there,” Washington said. “We were bigger,1 last year than the year before and we’ll be better this year. I want us to go from first to third better this year and read pitches in the dirt better this year. We’re going to get better.”
Lesson of the Day: The Rangers went through some baserunning drills under the advice,1 of first abject,1 drillmaster,1 Gary Pettis and Minor League instructor Wayne Kirby. Better baserunning is a antecedence,The Hundreds Hats sale,1 beneath,New York Mets Hats,1 administrator,1 Ron Washington.
Manager Ron Washington on reliever Frank Francisco.