Notebook dump.

Notebook dump during a power outage delay (literally, in this case) . . . .

Eleanor Czajka's annual Rangers Draft Page, always worth bookmarking, is now up at http://www.dickiethon.com/eczajka/draft_2009.htm.  There you'll find photos, scouting reports, and other information on many of the players Texas drafted this week.

Eleanor has also loaded Ryan Tatusko's latest "Back Field Diaries" entry.

Ian Kinsler, who had a six-hit game this year, is now 6 for his last 35. 

C.J. Wilson has had four bad outings out of 27 this season, at least based on his line scores.  What do they have in common?  All four came on the second day of back-to-back days of work.  

Justin Thompson was named pitching coach at Short-Season A Spokane, filling the position vacated when Jeff Andrews was elevated from Spokane to Frisco, where Joe Slusarski had been dismissed last month as the RoughRiders' pitching coach.  This will be Thompson's first professional coaching position.  Spokane opens its season next Saturday.

Twenty-nine-year-old lefthander Ryan O'Malley, the former Cubs pitcher who showed up as a Frisco acquisition a couple weeks ago, is apparently joining the RoughRiders as an assistant pitching coach.

Rangers minor league award winners for May: Hickory lefthander Yoon-Hee Nam (Pitcher of the Month), Frisco outfielder Mitch Moreland (Player of the Month), and Bakersfield catcher Jose Felix.

Nam was one of six Crawdads selected to appear in the South Atlantic League All-Star Game, joined by lefthander Martin Perez, catcher Doug Hogan, infielder Erik Morrison, and outfielders Mike Bianucci and David Paisano.  No team in the league has a larger contingent.

Lefthander Miguel De Los Santos so far in the Dominican Summer League: six innings, one hit, two walks, 16 strikeouts.  So only two outs recorded on balls in play?  Not exactly.  He's had three.  In his last outing, on Monday, he had the rare two-inning, seven-strikeout performance.  One of his victims reached safely on a third-strike wild pitch.

Think sending Chris Davis to AAA would be a drastic move?  Maybe so, but the Angels optioned second baseman Howie Kendrick today.  The 25-year-old is a career .294 hitter in about 1,200 plate appearances, but hitting just .231 this year.

Vladimir Guerrero has five extra-base hits in 101 at-bats.  That's two more than Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano has in 30 at-bats.

Yahumara Hernandez Manzo, the daughter of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, is four months older than Rangers first-round pick Matt Purke.  

Cincinnati reliever Nick Masset gave up nine hits as a Ranger, over 8.2 innings in 2006.

He's allowed eight hits this year, in 23.2 Reds innings.

Reliever Brendan Donnelly for AAA Round Rock in the Houston system: four earned runs (2.04 ERA) on 14 hits and five walks in 17.2 innings, fanning 16.  Two of five inherited runners have scored.

Still no sign of Derrick Turnbow anywhere.

The Rangers have reportedly released reliever Kazuo Fukumori, who has apparently returned to Japan with plans to rejoin the Rakuten Eagles.

Former Rangers farmhand Craig Frydendall is the new pitching coach for Hutchinson Community College, having served as pitching coach the last two seasons for Neosho County Community College.  Both schools are in Kansas.

No Rangers draft picks on the eight teams at the College World Series.  Bad if you were hoping to get a quick peek at some of the players, but good from the standpoint that it won't postpone negotiations.

Two (well, four) new additions for the Newberg Report Night auction:

* A pizza party for 20 at the awesome Durkin's Pizza (eight large pizzas, cheese bread, sodas, and a case of beer).

* Three separate opportunities to visit Chuck Morgan's control room during the ballgame that night.

All proceeds go to charity.

For those of you who are Little League parents: We're brainstorming on doing something other than trophies for the T-Ball team this year.  Any ideas?

You can read more from Jamey Newberg at www.NewbergReport.com.