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Rangers Nearing Good News After Latest Pitching Updates
Rangers Nearing Good News After Latest Pitching Updates originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Texas Rangers rotation could receive some much-needed depth in the coming weeks. A pair of injured pitchers continue to move forward in their rehab work. Advertisement Jon Gray could be ready to make his season debut by late July, Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News reports. Gray resumed throwing off a mound last week as he works his way back from a fractured right wrist suffered in mid-March. Gray will throw three more bullpen sessions before facing hitters. The right-hander is expected to return as a starter for the Rangers, though there was some talk during Spring Training about moving him to the bullpen, so his role could ultimately depend on the team's needs at the time of his return. Jul 23, 2024; Arlington, Texas, USA; Texas Rangers pitcher Jon Gray (22) throws during the third inning against the Chicago White Sox at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Dieb-Imagn Images © Andrew Dieb-Imagn Images Gray, who is in the final year of a four-year, $56 million deal, landed on the injured list stints in each of his first three seasons with the Rangers. He threw 102 2/3 innings in 2024 due to a pair of groin strains and a foot neuroma that required offseason surgery. Advertisement Cody Bradford could be ready to make his season debut even sooner, possibly by early July, according to Grant. Bradford has been throwing off a mound for several weeks as he recovers from a left elbow sprain and appears close to being cleared for a rehab assignment. Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said last week he hoped Bradford would be stretched out to five innings by July 4, which would pave the way for a return soon after. The left-hander held a 3.54 ERA and a 70:10 K:BB ratio over 76 1/3 innings in 2024. He has not pitched in a game this season since a March 6 exhibition against the San Diego Padres during Spring Training. Related: Phillies Announce Trade With Rangers for Right-Handed Pitcher This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 18, 2025, where it first appeared.
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21-03-2025
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Pitching Season Rating: A new metric for grading starting pitchers in fantasy baseball
Spending the past week running correlations while learning new spreadsheet formatting techniques can only mean one thing — I desperately need the baseball season to start (on American soil). Before we kick off, another hat tip is in order for the fine men and women working behind the curtain here at The Athletic. In an age of saturated and generic content, very few pieces nowadays are dedicated to progenitorial work aimed at developing a new metric or idea. And it makes sense — most flop and wind up in the dustbin of fantasy history … but not this one (I hope). Despite dedicating every winter to fantasy baseball research, there's seemingly never enough time to cover it all, especially when the eleventh hour hits. Consider my newest brainchild, Pitcher Season Rating (PSR), an invention out of necessity. We've all been there in the draft room. You're a few picks away in a snake draft with a handful of hitters in the queue until it's suddenly empty. When it comes to batters, the industry has created more than one all-encompassing stat for a shorthand comparison, whether it's Weighted Runs Created-plus (wRC+) or Weighted On-Base Average (wOBA). Granted, it doesn't fully account for our fantasy perspective, namely steals. However, it will almost always steer you in the right direction. But what about starting pitchers? ERA and WHIP are skewed by volume or lack thereof — and while wins and strikeouts account for quantity, they don't speak to the quality of innings pitched. Advertisement Long story short, our backstory is now in place — the lightbulb went on, and PSR was born. There isn't a comparable shorthand to serve as a sufficient starting pitching descriptor, particularly for a fantasy-based perspective. I wanted something on a 1-100 scale (similar to Madden ratings) that can be looked at for quick yet fair fantasy season comparisons. The closest thing in existence would be auction value returns, but there are a few issues. For starters, not everyone speaks dollar-value lingo, but it also accounts for replacement value, which I ignored. I didn't incorporate the player rater into my calculations, but I did use it as a benchmark in my backtesting, and the high correlation (R=0.86) feels pretty encouraging for a first run. (Sample from FanGraphs consists of all 271 starting pitchers with at least two games started and 10 innings pitched in 2024 so as to avoid openers) Wins — The wonkiest of all pitcher stats, one sit-down at an auction calculator will open your eyes to each win's value. Only two SPs posted 18 wins in 2024, and it doesn't start consolidating there — just 32 SPs eclipsed a dozen wins last season. Since the stat exists in a vacuum, players like Cody Bradford and Trevor Williams get a major boost for earning a half-dozen dubs each in under 75 IP. Earned Run Average — Ratios proved especially hard to weigh due to their dependence on volume. Shane Bieber didn't surrender a single earned run, but it seems disingenuous to rate it among the best fantasy seasons in the league at just 12 IP. Conversely, both Taijuan Walker and Johnny Cueto posted an ERA north of 7.00, but Walker's hurts much more across 74 IP as opposed to 11 IP. You get the point. If PSR ever does catch on in the industry, I look forward to improving its impact. Advertisement WHIP — The same issues as grading ERA with a necessary curve applied to volume. Only 18 qualified SPs, by my parameters, hung a sub-1.00 WHIP in 2024, but more impressive perhaps is that four achieved it in over 180 IPs — Logan Gilbert, Tarik Skubal, Zack Wheeler, and Bryce Miller. Similar to ERA, Shane Bieber deserves some credit for a stellar 0.92, but I'm struggling to claim he had a fantasy season for the ages in just a dozen frames. Strikeouts — Finally, a category that didn't require me to blow dust off my old statistics textbooks. Combining an element of quantity and quality, total strikeouts do the best job as a standalone descriptor — though the bar's extremely low given the circumstances. For reference, it's not until SP66 by PSR that a pitcher struck out fewer than 100 batters, and it was Gerrit Cole at 99. Since the study includes all pitchers meeting my minimum workload requirements, a '50' grade doesn't properly represent the bland or average season by percentile for our purposes. Using the eye test, I think that needs to get bumped up to 60, where Matt Waldron (142.2 IP; 7 Wins, 4.79 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 130 K) and Alec Marsh (128.0 IP; 9 Wins, 4.57 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 122 K) finished. Pretty unremarkable, huh? If you're nodding yes, it probably means we're onto something. 12 starters earned +90 PSR in 2024 (SP1): 12 starters earned between 85-90 PSR in 2024 (SP2): I can't list all 271 SPs here, so I made the entire 2024 PSR list (with 5×5 stats) available on a public sheet. If the industry finds this useful, thought-provoking or both, maybe we can revisit it at the All-Star break to track 2025 or in the offseason and go back a few years. Get in the comments below and let us know what you think! (Top photo of Tarik Skubal: Julio Aguilar / Getty Images)
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14-03-2025
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Rangers left-hander Cody Bradford to open season on injured list with sore elbow
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Texas Rangers left-hander Cody Bradford will start the season on the injured list because of soreness in his throwing elbow. Bradford had an MRI this week that came back clean, but Rangers manager Bruce Bochy told reporters on Thursday the club will shut him down for 10 days to see how he responds. Bradford was scratched from a scheduled start on Wednesday. Bradford is the second Texas starter to get hurt this week after Tyler Mahle was scratched from a start with forearm soreness. The right-hander expected to start throwing again in a few days. The 27-year-old Bradford went 6-3 with a 3.54 ERA in 13 starts last season after appearing eight times the year before. He also pitched in five playoff games during the Rangers' 2023 World Series run.
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13-03-2025
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Rangers right-hander Bradford to open season on injured list with sore elbow
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Texas Rangers right-hander Cody Bradford will start the season on the injured list because of soreness in his throwing elbow. Bradford had an MRI this week that came back clean, but Rangers manager Bruce Bochy told reporters on Thursday the club will shut him down for 10 days to see how he responds. Bradford was scratched from a scheduled start on Wednesday. Bradford is the second Texas starter to get hurt this week after Tyler Mahle was scratched from a start with forearm soreness. The right-hander expected to start throwing again in a few days. The 27-year-old Bradford went 6-3 with a 3.54 ERA in 13 starts last season after appearing eight times the year before. He also pitched in five playoff games during the Rangers' 2023 World Series run. ___ AP MLB:
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13-03-2025
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Rangers right-hander Bradford to open season on injured list with sore elbow
Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Texas Rangers right-hander Cody Bradford will start the season on the injured list because of soreness in his throwing elbow. Bradford had an MRI this week that came back clean, but Rangers manager Bruce Bochy told reporters on Thursday the club will shut him down for 10 days to see how he responds. Bradford was scratched from a scheduled start on Wednesday. Bradford is the second Texas starter to get hurt this week after Tyler Mahle was scratched from a start with forearm soreness. The right-hander expected to start throwing again in a few days. The 27-year-old Bradford went 6-3 with a 3.54 ERA in 13 starts last season after appearing eight times the year before. He also pitched in five playoff games during the Rangers' 2023 World Series run. ___ AP MLB: recommended in this topic
