Josh Rupe’s elbow injury may lead to David Wells landing in Texas:
It left the Rangers searching for more candidates to join oft-castigated Juan Dominguez and neophyte knuckleballer R.A. Dickey in the hunt for the final spot in the rotation. Volquez made his second solid outing Monday, holding Kansas City to one earned run in four innings in a 3-2 loss.
According to The Providence Journal, the search could include Wells. The paper reported the Rangers have discussed his availability with Boston, which has been shopping the lefty off and on all winter. Rangers officials did not comment on the possibility of looking outside the organization for a fifth starter.
He’d be a fitting replacement for Kenny Rogers.
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What do the Rangers have to offer, realistically, to the Sox for Wells?
Arroyo is looking terrible in Spring Training. Normally I don’t think S.T. results mean much, but he’s looking really, really terrible. So the Sox may not be as inclined to dump Wells as they otherwise might.