Texas Rangers acquire Seth Maness from Atlantic League

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty ImagesThe Texas Rangers have purchased right handed pitcher Seth Maness from High Point if the independent Atlantic League, the team announced today. Maness is starting tonight for the Nashville Sounds.

Maness, 30, was a reliever for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals from 2013-17. He was with the Royals in 2018 on a minor league deals, but was released in May, and was out of baseball until joining High Point this spring. Maness made one start for High Point this year.

Maness is best known for undergoing, three years ago, an alternative procedure that repairs rather than replaces a torn UCL, a procedure that takes less time to return from than Tommy…