Texas Rangers Focus On Re-Signing Colby Lewis
By Ed Carroll
Now that the Texas Rangers have their new manager, Jeff Banister, GM Jon Daniels will focus on resigning starting pitcher Colby Lewis.
The Texas Rangers have until shortly after the end of the World Series to negotiate exclusively with starting pitcher Colby Lewis, and now that GM Jon Daniels has hired Jeff Banister as the team’s manager, Lewis is the next priority for the team.
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Lewis missed all of the 2013 season after an injury, but returned in 2014 and despite his poor overall ERA (5.18), Lewis was still able to give the team 29 starts, and health was a rarity for the 2014 Rangers. He pitched 170.1 innings in 2014 and will be 35 in 2015, but he could still be a valuable back-of-the-rotation arm for Texas, who were destroyed by injuries this season.
Daniels wants to continue talking with Lewis’s agent, Alan Nero, and the Rangers can exclusively negotiate with Lewis until five days after the end of the World Series. Lewis has spent nearly all of his nine-year MLB career in Texas, outside of two half-seasons with the Oakland Athletics and the Detroit Tigers, but much of his career has been hampered by injuries, and he also missed the entire 2005 season due to injures.
Lewis signed a one-year, $2-million-dollar deal with the Rangers prior to the start of the 2014 season.
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