Texas Rangers starting pitcher Tyler Mahle was scratched from his scheduled Cactus League start today. Jack Leiter is starting in his place.
I will take the blame for this, as I wrote yesterday that the loss of Gerrit Cole to Tommy John surgery might open the door to the possibility of a Jon Gray trade to New York. My foolishness and arrogance has been punished with a Rangers starter being hurt.
It seems like there’s a decent possibility that Mahle starts the season on the injured list, as he would seem likely to be shutdown for at least a couple of days, and then ramp back up.