Overview
- The Rangers reinstated left-hander Cody Bradford from the 60-day injured list and scheduled him to start for the major-league club following his minor-league tuneups.
- Bradford was moved onto the active roster using a spot opened when MacKenzie Gore was placed on the paternity list, and the club had an available 40-man slot for the transaction.
- The 28-year-old returned from an internal-brace UCL repair that cost him about 13 months, and he completed four rehab outings that increased from one to four innings.
- Bradford did not allow a run or a walk across his final nine rehab innings and struck out 15, numbers the Rangers cited in assigning him an initial starting role.
- Lefty Jordan Montgomery recently threw five scoreless innings at Triple-A and could follow Bradford back to Texas soon, giving the team more rotation depth after it made no starter additions at the trade deadline.