The Texas Rangers have made a $13.3 million qualifying offer to Josh Hamilton, ensuring them draft-pick compensation is the outfielder decides to sign with another team.
For a team that won two straight AL West titles and dropped a chance for a third to Oakland on the final day of the season you wouldn’t think there would be many question marks heading into the off-season, but that’s not the case with this year’s Texas Rangers.
Josh Hamilton, Adrian Beltre, Mike Napoli, Elvis Andrus, Ian Kinsler, Matt Harrison, and Joe Nathan were voted into the MLB All Star Game in Kansas City in two weeks. First year starting pitcher Yu Darvish is one of 5 players up for the last spot on the team.
The Texas Rangers main focus may be on signing Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish at the moment, but that doesn’t mean the ball-clubs shut down all other business.