The current state of Rangers pitching: Too much to squeeze onto one 40-man roster, not enough yet to fill out a major league rotation.
On Tuesday, the Rangers set their 40-man roster ahead of the winter meetings by retaining Martín Pérez, trading reliever Dennis Santana for cash, adding three highly regarded prospects to the roster … and leaving two potentially exposed to be plucked in the Rule 5 draft next month.
Pérez accepted the club’s one-year, $19.65 million qualifying offer, giving the Rangers three members of a starting rotation locked up for a commitment of $37.1 million in 2023. It leaves them still flush with cash to pursue other top-end free agent pitchers.
