Starting pitcher Cole Winn.
The Rangers announced a pair of roster moves Sunday afternoon, placing left-hander Cody Bradford on the 15-day IL with a low-back strain and recalling right-hander Cole Winn to take his place on the active roster.
It’ll be Winn’s major league debut the first time he gets into a game. The 24-year-old righty was selected 15th overall by the Rangers in the first round of the 2018 draft and made some noise as a top-100 prospect following a dominant 2021 season that saw him pitch to a 2.41 ERA with a 32.2 percent strikeout rate in 21 starts split between the Double- and Triple-A levels of the minors.
Unfortunately, Winn has struggled badly in the years since then. 2022 saw the right-hander post a whopping 6.51 ERA in 28 starts with the Rangers’ Triple-A affiliate spiked to an unwieldy 15.2 percent, prompting the club to move Winn to the bullpen during the 2023 season.
The move to multi-inning relief work did not bring an end to Winn’s struggles, as he posted a staggering 7.22 ERA in 101 innings of work last year. His peripheral numbers also got even worse, as his walk rate crept up to 16 percent while his strikeout rate plummeted to just 19.7 percent.
Things haven’t looked much better for Winn so far this year, as he posted a 9.82 ERA in 7 2/3 innings during camp this spring and has allowed five runs (four earned) across his first four appearances at Triple-A this season.
Despite the shaky results, Winn will nonetheless get the opportunity to pitch at the big-league level, helping to provide depth to a bullpen that’s been leaned on for 40 percent of the club’s innings in recent days.
Making room for Winn on the active roster is Bradford, who heads to the injured list with a back strain following an excellent start to the 2024 season.
The 26-year-old southpaw has pitched to a 1.40 ERA and a 2.47 FIP with 17 strikeouts in 19 1/3 innings of work across three starts so far this year, forming a formidable duo with veteran righty Nathan Eovaldi at the front of the club’s rotation to this point in the season.
The Rangers will surely miss Bradford’s production while he’s on the IL, but Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News indicates that his absence could be a relatively short one, with Bradford potentially only needing the minimum amount of time off. If that ends up being the case, Bradford would first be eligible to return on April 25, as Sunday’s IL move was backdated to April 11.
In the meantime, however, Texas will need to look elsewhere to fill Bradford’s spot in the club’s starting rotation. Per MLB.com’s Kennedi Landry, that help will come in the form of right-hander Michael Lorenzen, who signed a one-year deal with the club last month and has been building up in the minors since then.
Landry reports that Lorenzen is set to make his Rangers debut in a start Monday against the Tigers, for whom he pitched the first half of the 2023 season.
Lorenzen’s time with Detroit wound up being something of a breakout for the right-hander, as he pitched to a 3.58 ERA (125 ERA+) with a 3.86 FIP in 18 starts with the club before being shipped to the Phillies ahead of last summer’s trade deadline.
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