Bronx Banter » Texas Ranger http://www.bronxbanterblog.com Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:32:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Baseball Player Name of the Week http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/01/03/baseball-player-name-of-the-week-9/ http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/01/03/baseball-player-name-of-the-week-9/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:15:24 +0000 Emma Span http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=46395 2011 starts off with a bang, name-wise, as the Texas Rangers, bless them, just signed a Venezuelan shortstop named:

Rougned Odor.

Photo of terrifyingly young-looking Rougned Odor from Pro Rumors.

Hat tip to BP’s Kevin Goldstein for alerting me to the good news. SB Nation’s Dallas blog notes that Odor is a key addition to the Rangers’ burgeoning “All-Name Team” that also includes Wilmer Font and Jurickson Profar. Looking over the Rangers’ MiLB Baseball-Reference page for the shirt-season A-ball Spokane Indians, I’m also quite fond of  Odubel Herrera, Guillermo Pimentel, Geurris Grullon, and Ovispo De Los Santos — the Rangers are indeed stacked. At AA they had Emerson Frostad, Elio Sarmiento, Blake Beavan, and the fake-sounding Mark Hamburger and Ryan Falcon. They have a chance to be a baseball-name force for years to come.

Baseball America has video of the new Odor.

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