Last year, Adrian Beltre got hurt (in May?) necessitating a player move for a 3B. Despite having some lovely bench options, General Manager Jon Daniels opted to bring up prospect superstar Joey Gallo to man third in Adrian's absence. It wasn't an unprecedented move; Texas has been lauded and cursed for bringing up promising prospects early to give them a taste of the Major League Experience. But with Beltre surely sticking around for another year, it still seemed like surprising move...Gallo's path to the majors would either be at 3B after Beltre was gone, or if he came up early, in the outfield. How that all worked out is a story for another day.

This evening, news broke that Shin-soo Choo had strained a calf muscle during batting practice. Uncharacteristically, the club also apparently announced that they were concerned that the injury could actually be something more serious. That's just something you don't do. Take at look at some other breaking news today: Arizona announced that A.J. Pollack's recent season-ending injury actually dated back to the discovery of a broken screw in his surgically-repaired elbow...in Spring Training. At the time (this was following an injury), Arizona publicly announced that there were "no problems" and the club expected A.J. to be back on the field soon. Why THAT happened is a subject for another day, as well; although I did spend some time tweeting about it earlier today.

In discussions on twitter, Rangers fans started immediately asking if Nomar Mazara, one of Texas' Big Four prospects (I still count Jurickson Profar), could be brought up to fill in for Choo. I jumped into a conversation and poo-poo'd the idea:

"My gut says JD waits to pull the trigger on either (Mazara or Gallo) for a long-term change."

I hit ENTER on that tweet, returned to my main twitter feed, and saw this:

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