The Texas Rangers have named Matt Blood as the teams new farm director, per reports from Ken Rosenthal and Levi Weaver on Twitter. The Rangers did not have a formal position of “farm director” in 2018.
This is an intriguing hire, as not only have the Rangers gone outside the organization for this hire, but they’ve gone a non-traditional route, as Blood had been the director for the USA Baseball U18 National Team. Blood was named to that position in January, 2016, after seven years of being an area scout for the St. Louis Cardinals — which means he worked for current g.