Bradford was sidelined for all of last season after elbow surgery when Schumaker was a senior adviser within the team\u2019s front office. He didn\u2019t pitch in either series against Schumaker\u2019s Miami Marlins in his first two big league seasons. He wasn\u2019t quite healthy enough to pitch in any somewhat meaningful camp games this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just a pitch-maker,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cI think the way he utilizes his changeup is super effective. He throws it to lefties, righties, back to back. I mean, he\u2019ll throw it four times in a row, and the fastball plays up because of the changeup. It\u2019s tough to sit on one pitch, and even if you\u2019re sitting on the changeup, it\u2019s off the end because the depth of it is very unique.”<\/p>\n
Jacob\u00a0deGrom<\/a> has battled hip soreness for more than a month and must be monitored. Kumar Rocker<\/a> has already thrown more innings this season than he has in any other professional campaign. Jack\u00a0Leiter<\/a> has yet to begin a minor league rehab assignment as he works his way back from ankle surgery. Jordan Montgomery returned from his own elbow surgery just days after Bradford, but in his season debut against the Baltimore Orioles, he looked shaky out of the bullpen.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Bradford, on the other hand, has looked sharp since he was activated last week. He threw 75 pitches in seven innings of three-run ball in a 3-2 loss against the Angels at Angels Stadium on Tuesday night and became the third Rangers pitcher to work that deep into a game since the All-Star break. He\u2019s also only the third Rangers pitcher in the pitch tracking era, which began in 1988, to throw 75 or fewer pitches in a start of seven or more innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe was fantastic,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cHe\u2019s a pitch-maker. You can see him taking notes in between innings and trying to make sure that he\u2019s not repeating the same sequences. He\u2019s just really, really smart.\u201d<\/p>\n He likely would\u2019ve pitched further into the game if he wasn\u2019t still under a workload governor, and as much as he was encouraged by the length of his start, he bemoaned \u201catrocious\u201d mechanics that led to \u201cone big inning\u201d in which the Angels scored all of their runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMy body felt really good,\u201d an agitated Bradford said after his start. \u201cMechanically, I felt like I was fighting myself, just very atrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019ll have the opportunity to correct that.<\/p>\n The Rangers suddenly need him to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford was sidelined for all of last season after elbow surgery when Schumaker was a senior adviser within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,732,7677,89744],"class_list":["post-406066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-article","tag-mlb","tag-tp-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}