The Texas Rangers have signed pitcher Adrian Sampson to a minor league deal, the team announced today.
We have talked about the troubling lack of pitching depth — and in particular, starting pitching depth — that the Rangers currently have. Signing Sampson does help as far as pitching depth goes, as having him as an option at AAA is better than not having him (or someone similar) as an option at AAA, though it doesn’t really fix the bigger problem of the #5 starter currently being Cody Bradford.
Sampson, as you may recall, spent time with the Rangers a few years back.