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Ron Washington’s contract is coming to an end in his fourth season.Washington has been told by the Texas Rangers that they want Washington to come back after this season ends.

After the season ends, Chuck Greenberg indicated that Washington’s contract would be addressed. The team president Nolan Ryan will be approved as the team’s new owner next week.

Ryan’s response to the Rangers request, “We’ve told Wash that we want him back and we’ll address it at the appropriate time, and he’s very comfortable with that. Obviously, we anticipate him being back next year. As far as working out the details and stuff, that will be done at the appropriate time. There aren’t things right now that are incomplete as far as people not knowing.” Read More >>

Greenberg says Thursday afternon, “It beats the heck out of fans thinking we’re a bunch of losers and being disappointed that we bought the team.”

As long as Nolan Ryan was in the ownership of Greenberg’s group, there’s no chance of that happening. Baseball’s all-time leader and no-hitters, Ryan, was the reason why for applause that erupted just after midnight CT Thursday morning. Breenberg’s group became vitorious in the very publicized auction over Mark Cuban and Jim Crane for the Texas Rangers.

Greenberg had this to say about the first moves as new owners, “Ultimately, I represent the whole organization and am the contact person with Major League Baseball. But I understand our baseball operations department is as good as any in the game. What we need to do is get the club going on the sales and marketing side, build on our on-field success and take advantage of the passion and enthusiasm that’s building in the community.”

Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels will be in charge of the baseball even though Greenberg Knows that Bruce Kison holds the record in the world series for the most hit batters in a game. Greenberg, instead, will be the brains when it comes to the business side. Read More >>

As the hearing began to go over the Texas Rangers’ bankruptcy plan, Nolan Ryan and all interested parties looked for a Judge to sign off on the deal to unravel a formally approved group, led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Rangers president Nolan Ryan, to take over the teams ownership.

The Restructuring officer, whom is court-appointed, backs up the plan after earlier objections. Because the auction had a result in a higher price for the Texas Rangers, creditors who installed the sale no longer oppose the plan.

An attorney for some of the top creditors, Andrew LeBlanc, “I was wrong. I’ve never been happier to say I was wrong.”

Ryan and sports attorney Chuck Greenberg won a showdown with Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for the AL West-leading Rangers just after midnight. The value of the winning bid, according to court documents, is $590 million. Read More >>

There is a reason why the pros use wood bats. If they still used metal bats like they did in little league all the way until Division 1 college ball, this horrible accident of a pitcher being hit in the head would happen much more frequently. The grown men in the MLB can hit a ball so hard that it is almost impossible to protect yourself on the pitcher’s mound. The interesting dilemma is that college players in Division 1are almost just as mature as these hard-hitting mature men in the MLB.

The Texas Rangers right-hander Dustin Nippert escaped what could have been a serious injury when he was hit in the head by Austin Jackson’s line drive in the sixth inning of an 8-6, 14-inning win over the Detroit Tigers Monday night. The Rangers said Nippert, who walked off the field under his own power, was taken to a hospital for a CT exam, which was negative. He then returned to the team’s hotel.

“We’ll probably give him a couple days off, just because you want to be careful when a guy gets hit in the head, but he’s OK,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said. “It looked a lot worse than it actually was.” Washington said there was a chance that the Rangers might put Nippert on the disabled list, partially as a precautionary measure but also because their bullpen was severely depleted by Monday’s 14-inning game. Read More >>

“Tom Hicks put the club into bankruptcy. It’s been an interesting but a very difficult process. The Greenberg-Ryan group, I think, has lived up to everything they said they would, but we have to deal with a law and the bankruptcy laws.”

We need to get this done very quickly. There’s no question about it. I’ve talked to Nolan Ryan this morning already. The team is doing very well. And I want to say this: The economics of this have nothing to do with baseball. Sometimes that gets misunderstood. This has everything to do with Mr. Hicks and Mr. Hicks’ personal economic situation. Hopefully we can get this resolved as quickly as possibly. We’ve told everybody that. I would have liked to have the Ryan-Greenberg group approved awhile ago. But as we move forward, hopefully we can solve this problem. Read More >>

The verdict is in on the Texas Rangers and with a court appointed officer recommending that they sell, sell, sell in a one day auction and help life the debt of the American League.

With the start of billing beginning at $15 mil based on May negotiations prior to the filing with bidders establishing their backing as early as next Tuesday. Although rumor has it that the MLB may have the ability to oppose the winning bid.

For the time being the reorganization hearing has been pushed back for the third time in just two weeks delaying the process. Warnings from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn were headed as the team still runs the risk that their chapter 11 filing may be rejected. Read More >>

Amid a flurry of trades veteran catcher Pudge Rodriguez has returned to his once mighty home, the Texas Rangers. In a brutal mistake, the Astros traded him for… huh. Well who cares anyway? Pudge’s return marks a great day for the Rangers franchise as he rejoins a clubhouse with 34 other Golden Gloves. Despite his time with the Detroit Tigers, Pudge has been welcomed home with open arms by fans and fellow teammates alike. The crowd seems to have made a habit of standing ovations whenever his name is so much as mentioned. And when he stood at the plate for his first at-bat the crowd simply couldn’t contain themselves.

Although he returns as a mentor and catcher emeritus, he remains a powerful force not only in the dugout but also behind the plate. Still blessed with a rocket of an arm, at age 37 this talented MLB ball player commands enormous respect with the ability to throw runners out from his knees. Shutting down nearly every stealer in the game, base runners will now have to think twice before trying to steal on the Rangers. Coupled with his experience and new found ability to mentor, Pudge is now the Rangers’ best hope for the future of the franchise.

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With the Texas Rangers current financial distress it seems odd that a club having been bailed out by the MLB for a substantial amount, reported around $15 million, would still be spending like they have money to burn.

In looking to perhaps sell controlling stake it makes sense that the Rangers would continue to advance the prospect of the team for a potential buyer but even as Rangers president Nolan Ryan had stated, “Just because of the process it takes, I don’t expect to see anything happen during the course of the season. If there’s an ownership change, I think it’ll be in the offseason or the spring. That’s just my expectation,” it doesn’t seem to be the time or place for these decisions.

“If we have something that would be beneficial, we would bring it to Tom [referring to Rangers owner Tom Hicks],” Ryan said of trade offers referring to at least $2.5 million to sign two prospects, both of which would not be confirmed until the players pass physicals, despite financial trouble. “There haven’t been any restrictions put on us.”

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