PT TODAY: Rios nursing sore thumb

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Rangers | Alex Rios out a week
Updating a previous report, Texas Rangers OF Alex Rios (thumb) has an infection in his right thumb and will be out at least a week.  Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Jeff Wilson
 
BHQ take: Several Rangers will soak up Rios' missed time, but the main beneficiary figures to be utilityman Adam Rosales, who will play a lot of 1B while rookie Ryan Rua takes Rios' OF spot. Rosales actually won the team's Player of the Month award for August, which perhaps is damning by faint praise for the injury-riddle Rangers. But Rosales did hit .352 with 2 HR...

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