Mean while in San Antonio, “if you build it, they will come”. #BLW2015 pic.twitter.com/hBq1zw1DW1
— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) March 18, 2015
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Spring training games in Texas?
Count on it. Twice.
Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach will manage a split-squad roster against the Texas Rangers in San Antonio this Friday and Saturday. Don Mattingly will stay behind and manage a pair of away games here in Arizona, Friday against the A’s and Saturday against the Rockies.
The Dodgers players, coaches, and staff on the travel roster will fly out tonight.
Left-hander Erik Bedard starts for the Dodgers Friday against Texas right-hander Anthony Bass. Right-hander Zack Greinke starts Saturday against right-hander Anthony Ranaudo.
Thursday morning, Mattingly offered a few more details about the Dodgers’ plan for the two games.
Greinke will be allowed to bat for himself Saturday. The Dodgers will use Yasmani Grandal as the designated hitter Friday. There are three catchers on the Dodgers’ travel roster: Austin Barnes and/or Shawn Zarraga will catch Bedard on Friday, while Grandal will catch Greinke on Saturday.
There is no local TV or radio for either game. I’m told some clips from the trip will air on a future episode of Backstage: Dodgers. The Rangers will have a crew from Fox Sports Southwest there, and that telecast is available to stream live via MLB.tv.
Here are the travel rosters for both teams (thanks to Evan Grant on Twitter for the Rangers tip). As you can see, the Rangers are bringing a larger, more anonymous group:
| Rangers | Dodgers |
| Jesus Pirela RHP | Erik Bedard LHP |
| Will Lamb LHP | Pedro Baez RHP |
| Phil Klein RHP | Daniel Coulombe LHP |
| Anthony Ranaudo RHP | Yimi Garcia RHP |
| Roman Mendez RHP | Zack Greinke RHP |
| Lisalverto Bonilla RHP | Juan Nicasio RHP |
| Josh McElwee RHP | Joe Wieland RHP |
| Anthony Bass RHP | |
| Ross Wolf RHP | |
| David Martinez RHP | |
| Juan Perez LHP | |
| Keone Kela RHP | |
| Martire Garcia LHP | |
| Ryne Slack LHP | |
| David Lyon C | Yasmani Grandal C |
| Brett Nicholas C | Austin Barnes C |
| Chris Gimenez C | Shawn Zarraga C |
| Carlos Corporan C | |
| Elvis Andrus SS | Darwin Barney 2B/SS |
| Trever Adams 1B | Buck Britton 3B |
| Adam Rosales INF | Adrian Gonzalez 1B |
| Rougned Odor 2B | Alex Guerrero INF |
| Ed Lucas INF | Enrique Hernandez INF/OF |
| Seth Spivey INF | Darnell Sweeney INF/OF |
| Luis Marte INF | Justin Turner INF |
| Joey Gallo 3B | |
| Leonys Martin OF | Matt Carson OF |
| Delino Deshields OF | Kyle Jensen OF |
| Jake Smolinski OF | Joc Pederson OF |
| Royce Bolinger OF | Yasiel Puig OF |
| Ryan Ludwick OF | |
| Carlos Peguero OF | |
| Nick Williams OF | |
| Jared Hoying OF | |
| Ryan Strausborger OF |
