Get To Know A Prospect is an ongoing feature highlighting top prospects from teams around the league. Players discussed are generally close to breaking into the big leagues and tend to have been bad ass mother fuckers in the minors.
Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus was one of five minor leaguers that Texas received for Mark Teixera in July of 2007 along with catcher Jarrod Saltalamaccia and pitchers Neftali Perez, Matt Harrison, and Beau Jones. The trade keeps looking better and better for Texas, who wouldn't have been able to pay Teixera the five trillion dollars he got this offseason anyways.
It's looking like quite a haul for the Rangers. Salty will be the team's starting catcher in 2009 and could turn into one of the better catchers in baseball. Baseball America ranked Perez as the Rangers top prospect this offseason.
BA had Andrus ranked as the 19th best prospect in all of baseball before last season. Andrus hit .295 with 54 stolen bases as a 19-year old in AA in 2008. The Rangers just signed 70-year old Omar Vizquel, who will probably be the Rangers shortsop opening day with Andrus starting out at AAA Oklahoma. But since Omar Vizquel sucks, look for Andrus to be in Arlington at some point this season should he have success in AAA.
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All this post needs is a "The Atlanta Braves got fucked in the ass with this trade" label and it's just about perfect.
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