The team’s All-Star shortstop and homegrown LHP were bright spots in a 4-2 loss to Cleveland Sunday.
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Cody Bradford delivers against the Cleveland Guardians during the first inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. will do damage. Even after a scare. Seager, in the bottom of the sixth inning of Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians, took a Matthew Boyd pitch to the left hand-wrist area on a swing attempt. He hopped around in pain and fell to his knees, but after a check-in with a trainer, remained in the game and finished his at bat.
In fact, according to FanGraphs, the 1.4 WAR that Bradford has accumulated in his first two major league seasons rank third among all primary starting pitchers that the Rangers drafted, developed and used for more than 100 innings since the start of the 2014 season. Only Colby Lewis and Derek Holland rank higher.
Bochy, when asked on Wednesday to place himself in general manager Chris Young’s shoes and to determine whether Bradford breaks camp next spring as a starting pitcher, laughed and said “You can talk to him about that, I don’t put myself in somebody else’s role.”“He’s a man,” Bochy said Sunday. “The way he competes, the way he prepares ... the maniacal focus he has out there. He’s such a mature young man.
Oh, and, about the Rangers and Sunday’s loss: It was messy. Even Bradford contributed. Two of Cleveland’s four runs can be traced back to Texas errors. Bradford, in the bottom of the first inning, walked leadoff hitter Steven Kwan and — after a Lane Thomas groundball back to the pitcher — misfired on a throw to second base and allowed Kwan to reach third base. He scored Cleveland’s first run on a José Ramírez sacrifice fly in the next at bat.
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