\u201cI feel healthy now at this point,\u201d said Langford, who was scheduled to face pitching in the Rangers\u2019 tunnel batting cage for the first time since aggravating the injury during an attempt to play in an unofficial game in Arizona late last month. \u201cThe first time I felt like I was kind of just trying to come back from it while it was still progressing. But now, I feel like I\u2019m healthy. And, yeah, I\u2019m antsy.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
What\u2019s uncertain is how long it will take for Langford to go from facing live pitching to returning to the major leagues. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Count the Rangers among those who are most curious, because there is not a lot of familiarity with how the specific muscle he strained will respond. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good question,\u201d manager Skip Schumaker said. \u201cI don\u2019t really know how many at-bats it will take because I\u2019ve never seen this injury before. I think you kind of have to monitor it and get his legs underneath him, so when he comes back, he’s ready to play.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Given how the Rangers offense has struggled without both Langford and Seager, the team will need him to contribute immediately. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In the 29 games since Langford last played, the Rangers were 12-17 entering Monday with a .230\/.315\/.363\/.671 slash line and were averaging just 3.59 runs per game, nearly a full run less than the league scoring average for the year. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel healthy now at this point,\u201d said Langford, who was scheduled to face pitching in the Rangers\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,1567,69,3240,83514,88469],"class_list":["post-708806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-tp-texas-rangers","tag-tp-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116638128767616489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}