The Texas Rangers have added six players to their 40 man roster today, the deadline for adding players to protect them from the Rule 5 draft.
Those players are pitchers Brett Martin, Joe Palumbo, Ariel Jurado and Jonathan Hernandez, catcher Jose Trevino, and catcher/infielder/outfielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa.
We talked about the Rule 5 deadline being today this morning, and at that time I thought Martin, Palumbo, Jurado, Trevino and Kiner-Falefa were likely to be added, and threw out Sam Wolff as a possible sixth. Instead of Wolff, who will miss much of 2018 due to tendon flexor surgery in his right elbow, the Rangers added Hernandez, a 21 year old righthander who split the 2017 season between low-A Hickory and high-A Down East, putting up a 4.