Sammy's back... sort of

[NewsWhore]

Sammy Sosa has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, the team he started his major league career with back in 1985. The contract is for around US$500,000, but most of the money will be incentive-based. The Rangers will eventually use Sosa as a designated hitter at the fifth spot, behind Mark Texeira, and sometimes as an outfielder. It could be an opportunity for the Hall of Fame bound slugger to reach his 600-homerun milestone. Sosa currently has 588 career homeruns, and is fifth on the all-time homerun list. Sosa signed with the Rangers when he was 16 years old, and was brought up to the Majors in 1989, when he was 20. After only 25 games with the Rangers he was traded to the Chicago White Sox, and eventually landed in the hands of the Chicago Cubs. Alongside slugger Mark McGwire, Sosa helped bring baseball back after the 1994 baseball strike. Both players ended up hitting over 60 homeruns in 1998 and Sosa became the first and only player to have more than 60 homeruns in three seasons.

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