According to the Star Telegram, Blalock is officially a first baseman, as of today. A permanent move, according to him, and he's all for it.
The only way this makes sense is if the long term plan is to move Mike Young to third, which is a good idea.
However, the timing is weird. There's no way Vazques is going to keep up his current level of production, so I don't see how they think Blalock+Vazquez/Duran is a better combination than Blalock+Cat/Shelton.
And of course long term the Rangers have three potentially huge bats getting close to the bigs, and they all play first base.
Weird, weird timing.
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