Yu Darvish SP SD Sat 8/23/14 5:22 PM
Yu Darvish
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Darvish (elbow) will not travel with the Rangers at the outset of the upcoming road trip, and there's no timetable for him to begin a throwing program, Fox Sports Southwest's Anthony Andro reports.
The three-series road trip will take the Rangers into the first week of September, and if Darvish doesn't begin throwing soon, there will be little reason for the Rangers to bring him back at all this season. Darvish hasn't disappointed on his preseason promise on a per-start basis, but it seems likely he'll finish the season with fewer than 160 innings (currently at 144.1), which means he'll fall well short of the value owners hoped they were getting on draft day. Derek Holland also just had a setback in his recovery, and Scott Baker will start Sunday for the Rangers, which shows just how desperate the Rangers are for starting pitching.
