MLB rules allow 72 hours for a player who has been optioned to the minors to report to his team, even if all a player has to do during Texas Rangers spring training is move around 100 steps.
Willie Calhoun, it appears, is pacing himself.
Told on Thursday that he won’t be on the Rangers’ Opening Day roster and officially optioned Friday to Triple A Nashville, Calhoun was either absent from the Surprise Reaction Campus or stashed away in the minor-league clubhouse readying for a fresh start Saturday.
He wasn’t in the lineup for the Triple A game Friday, and he was one of the few players who no-showed a team event hosted by shortstop Elvis Andrus at the local Top Golf.