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2012 Texas Rangers
Rangers primary logo
The current logo of the Rangers
Major league affiliations
Location
2012 information
Owner(s) Nolan Ryan
Manager(s) Ron Washington
Local television Fox Sports Southwest
KTXA
(Dave Barnett, Tom Grieve)
Local radio KESN ESPN Radio 103.3 FM (English)
(Eric Nadel, Steve Busby, Bryan Dolgin)
KZMP 1540 AM (Spanish)
(Eleno Orlenas, Jerry Romo)
Stats ESPN.com

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The 2012 season for the Texas Rangers is the 52nd season in the overall history of the franchise and the 41st since the team relocated to Arlington, Texas. The Rangers enter the season as the two-time defending champions of the American League and the AL West, and currently have the best record in the Majors.

Contents

Offseason

Transactions

  • October 31, 2011: The team exercised its club options on Colby Lewis and Yoshinori Tateyama, while also announcing that the entire coaching staff would return for 2012.[1][2]
  • November 21, 2011: The club signed RHP Joe Nathan to a two-year $14.5 million deal with an option for a third year. He will be the team's closer and subsequently bump RHP Neftali Feliz into the starting rotation. Nathan leaves the Minnesota Twins after becoming the all-time saves leader for the franchise over 9 seasons with the club.[6]
  • December 1, 2011: Taylor Teagarden was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league RHP Randy Henry and a player to be named later. On December 8, 2011, the player was identified as minor league 2B Greg Miclat.[7][8]
  • December 19, 2011: The team won the negotiating rights to Japanese RHP Yu Darvish for $51.7 million through the Posting system. The Rangers will have 30 days to negotiate a contract with Darvish, if no agreement is reached, then the posting fee is returned to the club and Darvish will return to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters for the 2012 season.[9]
  • January 5, 2012: The Rangers traded infielder Chad Tracy to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for RHP Greg Reynolds. Reynolds was assigned to Triple A Round Rock.
  • January 18, 2012: The Rangers and Japanese RHP Yu Darvish agreed on a six year, $60 million contract. The contract was signed 15 minutes before a 4:00pm CST deadline. Yu was formally introduced to the organization with a press conference on January 20.

Current roster

Texas Rangers roster
Active roster Inactive roster Coaches/Other

Pitchers

Starting rotation

Bullpen

Closer

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Designated hitters

  • None specified

Pitchers

Catchers


Outfielders


Manager

Coaches



25 Active, 15 Inactive

Injury icon 2.svg 7- or 15-day disabled list
Suspended list
# Personal leave
Roster updated May 24, 2012
TransactionsDepth chart
All MLB rosters

Season standings

AL West
W L Pct. GB Home Road
Texas Rangers 31 20 .608 15–11 16–9
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 26 26 .500 13–11 13–15
Seattle Mariners 23 30 .434 9 9–13 14–17
Oakland Athletics 22 29 .431 9 10–15 12–14


Record vs. opponents

Team BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC LAA MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL
Baltimore 4–2 3–1 0–0 0–0 3–2 1–2 3–0 3–5 2–1 0–0 2–1 1–3 5–4 2–1
Boston 2–4 3–1 3–1 3–4 1–2 0–0 3–0 0–2 1–2 2–0 5–4 0–2 1–2 2–1
Chicago 1–3 1–3 8–4 4–4 1–2 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–2 3–0 3–0 1–2 0–0 3–0
Cleveland 0–0 1–3 4–8 3–0 5–4 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–2 1–2
Detroit 0–0 4–3 4–4 0–3 4–1 0–0 3–2 1–2 2–2 1–5 2–1 1–3 0–0 2–1
Kansas City 2–3 2–1 2–1 4–5 1–4 2–1 1–1 3–4 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–0 0–4 1–2
Los Angeles 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–0 1–2 6–3 3–3 4–5 4–0 0–3 1–2 2–2 1–2
Minnesota 0–3 0–3 1–2 0–2 2–3 1–1 3–6 2–2 3–0 1–2 1–2 0–3 2–2 2–1
New York 5–3 2–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 4–3 3–3 2–2 3–0 2–1 2–4 1–2 0–2 1–2
Oakland 1–2 2–1 2–1 1–2 2–2 2–1 5–4 0–3 0–3 2–5 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–2
Seattle 0–0 0–2 0–3 1–4 5–1 0–0 0–4 2–1 1–2 5–2 0–4 5–5 1–2 3–0
Tampa Bay 1–2 4–5 0–3 0–0 1–2 0–0 3–0 2–1 4–2 1–2 4–0 2–1 6–2 1–2
Texas 3–1 2–0 2–1 1–2 3–1 0–2 2–1 3–0 2–1 1–1 5–5 1–2 4–2 2–1
Toronto 4–5 2–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 4–0 2–2 2–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–6 2–4 2–1


Game log

Legend
Rangers Win Rangers Loss Game Postponed
2012 Game Log (31–20)

References

  1. ^ http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111031&content_id=25851164&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex
  2. ^ Durrett, Richard (31 October 2011). "Texas Rangers keep Colby Lewis in fold". ESPN. http://espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/7174550/texas-rangers-exercise-option-pitcher-colby-lewis. Retrieved 2 November 2011. 
  3. ^ http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111102&content_id=25872542&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
  4. ^ "Texas Rangers outright 5 players off roster, lose O’Day on waiver claim by Baltimore". Washington Post. 2 November 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/texas-rangers-outright-5-players-off-roster-lose-oday-on-waiver-claim-by-baltimore/2011/11/02/gIQArkRLgM_story.html. Retrieved 2 November 2011. [dead link]
  5. ^ "Former Rangers reliever Darren O'Day picked off waivers by Orioles". Dallas Morning News. 2 November 2011. http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/11/former-rangers-reliever-darren.html. Retrieved 2 November 2011. 
  6. ^ http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111121&content_id=26022352&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex
  7. ^ http://espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/7303378/texas-rangers-trade-catcher-taylor-teagarden-baltimore-orioles
  8. ^ . http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/rangers-get-minor-league-inf-miclat-to-complete-deal-that-sent-c-teagarden-to-orioles/2011/12/08/gIQAdURwfO_story.html. [dead link]
  9. ^ http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111219&content_id=26202356&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex
  10. ^ http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111221&content_id=26219918&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex

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