whos gonna start at catcher for texas??

[shake]

barajas or laird????

[Madison]

Laird if his thumb is 100% at the end of Spring Training.

[Ender]

Barajas almost for sure.

[Madison]

Barajas almost for sure.

That response made me go double check a few things. Seems the Rangers want Laird to start off at AAA to make sure his thumb is ok and he's back to form. Barajas will start the year with the job. Sorry, not sure how that got past me.

[so0perspam]

Laird is the catcher Texas sees in its future, but he suffered a thumb injury that the team is still concerned about. That's why they signed Sandy Alomar Jr. as insurance, but if Laird is good to go, he'll challenge Barajas, who filled in nicely last year with 15 homers, to get the No. 1 job back.

[stumpak]

So it sounds like no one is certain to get enough PT to have good fantasy value.