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Green, who managed the Padres from 2016-2019, decided to leave for New York after the Cubs fired manager David Ross earlier this month to hire former Brewers manager Craig Counsell. The 46-year-old, who served as Chicago’s bench coach for the last three seasons, will work in player development for the Mets. He reportedly interviewed for the Mets’ managerial vacancy before the club settled on Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza for the position.

Stephenson’s first homer was 382-footer to right-center that Statcast says would have left seven ballparks. Fortunately, Globe Life Field was one of them. He also had a single in the contest, and he’s now 3-for-17 in six appearances.

The Rangers were all over Singer today; their average EV on the 16 balls in play against him was 100.4 mph. Still, the four hardest of those all turned into outs and none became homers. Singer will take a 5.00 ERA into his third outing of the year next week in Miami.

Pagán got the bottom of the order today after retired Evan Carter and Danny Jansen before striking out leadoff man Brandon Nimmo. This makes him 2-for-3 saving games amidst a rough start overall (5 ER, 2 HR in 4 1/3 IP).

Gore gave up two homers today after allowing none in five spring outings and his first start against the Phillies last week. We still like how he’s throwing to start the year, especially with the 16 strikeouts in 11 1/3 innings. He’ll take on Seattle next.

The Rangers already have to be regretting not making a real investment in their pen during the offseason. The 39-year-old Martin, who said last season was likely to be his last, will probably bounce back after giving up four earned runs over 2 2/3 innings in his first four appearances, but he’ll also probably get hurt at some point. The Rangers really need a youngster or two from the group including Emiliano Teodo, Marc Church and Luis Curvelo to step it up and emerge as contributors.

Steer homered off left-hander MacKenzie Gore and doubled ahead of Tyler Stephenson’s tiebreaking homer in the ninth. Based on his performance the last couple of years, Steer wouldn’t seem to belong in the Reds’ primary lineup against right-handers, but it’s been awfully hard convincing Terry Francona of that, even though he has more options at his disposal than usual right now. If Steer remains an everyday guy, he could offer a little mixed league value, mostly because he’s in one of the league’s best situations for hitters.

It could have been an even better day, as Langford had 109- and 108-mph lineouts to the outfield. His two knocks weren’t hit quite as well, but they were placed perfectly into the right-center gap. On the first one, Noelvi Marte had his feet go out from under him on the warning track after running down the ball, giving Langford an extra base for the triple. The second just eluded the glove of a diving Dane Myers Langford is now at .188/.188/.344 in 32 plate appearances.

Jerar Encarnacion will make his first start of the season in place of Schmitt, who is day-to-day.

The absence is again due to the Achilles tendinitis that cost him Tuesday’s game before he played the last two days. He’ll probably be back in there Saturday. Mark Vientos is stepping in for him, which makes this his fourth straight start after going the first four games without one.

The Kevin Kelly offering hit him near his back elbow. X-rays were negative, though as we saw with Jordan Lawlar, that’s not necessarily everything. James Outman replaced him as a pinch-runner and in center field. He would be his primary replacement if Buxton misses some time.