There has been a pattern to Majewski's career every year since 2008, his first after five campaigns--and a brief major league experience--as a third round draft choice out of Rutgers with Baltimore. The New Brunswick, NJ native would start the season pounding the baseball in the Atlantic League, then have his contract purchased by a major league organization.
It was Newark (.368 for 50 games) in 2008, then Classes AA and AAA with Houston. The next season it was 28 games in Camden (.310), followed by Double-A play for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2010, it was 31 games in York (.328) followed by AA for Oakland. He had a longer stint, 71 games (.317) for York last season, and finished in a flourish with 33 runs batted in in only 35 games for Texas's top farm club in Round Rock, TX.
The Rangers could not help but like the .333 batting average and Majewski's .413 on-base percentage so they have signed him to a new contract for this season. If he keeps anything close to that pace in the American League champion's farm system it will almost certainly spell the end of the right-handed hitter's Atlantic League days and perhaps earn the opportunity to play for Texas.
Majewski, whose only major league experience was for nine games in 2004 (2-for-13), turns 31 on March 12, but what a billboard he will be should he turn his four seasons of Atlantic League play with a combined .331 average, .410 on-base percentage and 131 RBI in 180 games into a major league job.
MIKE O'CONNOR MAY HAVE GOTTEN AN EARLY BREAK
Since Mike O'Connor has become exclusively a left-handed specialist the last two seasons, it is entirely possible this onetime Southern Maryland Blue Crabs starter (2009) was handed an early break in his initial season as a non-roster invitee with the New York Yankees.
Veteran major league southpaw specialist Hideki Okajima was released after failing his physical so O'Connor, 31, has one less competitor as he bids to join Boone Logan as the lefties in the Yankees' bullpen. O'Connor was 0-1, 2.70 in nine games with the New York Mets last season and 5-5, 5.22 with Triple-A Buffalo.
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