The Rangers have announced that they’ll purchase the contract of Kyle Lohse in time for him to start tomorrow’s ballgame. Righty Nick Martinez has been optioned to open an active roster spot.
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Lohse, 37, joined the Texas organization on a minor league deal earlier in the season and has been working at the Triple-A level. Over 58 2/3 innings through ten starts, he has put up a rather unsightly 5.06 ERA, though a 61.4% strand rate isn’t doing him any favors.
While Lohse’s minor league performance doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence, the Rangers are in need of rotation arms and will see what he has left in the tank. And there’s at least some reason to hope that the veteran can deliver useful innings for a big league staff.
Across his 15 MLB campaigns, Lohse owns a 4.37 ERA with 5.8 K/9 against 2.5 BB/9. His earned run average ballooned to 5.85 last year, but that broke a string of four consecutive years in which Lohse’s ERA never drifted above the mid-3’s. Beyond that, the underlying peripherals looked much the same as ever and Lohse was still working at his customary ~89 mph level with the fastball.
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Still most wins in the AL. Our rotation is pretty bad right now but we get Darvish back after the ASB so I’m not too worried yet.
Umm, Darvish is trying to come back from Tommy John Surgery and was immediately put on the DL after returning. If that’s what Rangers have to count on then yeah I’d be worried. Starting pitchers have dropping like flies this season and… Well look at that. Just got the notification that Rondon just went down for the White Sox. I think the Rangers need to make a move. They’re going to scuffle with their current rotation. Even the Cubs have lost 15 of their last 20…
Can’t be worse than NMart.
It was though. Can’t do AAA well so MLB is a no no.
Let win a World Series for Dallas
Damn, I believed he could have a solid (not great, but productive) year this year. Those AAA numbers are real bad though