This afternoon, the last Christmas gift of the season arrived in my email inbox courtesy of Jamey Newberg. My beloved Texas Rangers have outbid the Boston Red Sox and acquired the services of Kevin Millwood, signing the new ace of the staff through 2009 with an option for 2010.

As the link to the T.R. Sullivan article indicates, Millwood led the American League last year with a 2.86 ERA. His record was only 9-11, thanks in part to anemic run support (Millwood ranked 8th in poorest run support in the AL last year among starters with his team's offense averaging only 3.6 runs per start).

Way to go, Tom Hicks and Jon Daniels. It is clear to me now that the vision of rebuilding the entire rotation was there all along and now that the vision has become reality, I like it.

The Rangers rotation going forward now looks like this: Kevin Millwood, Adam Eaton, Vincente Padilla, Kameron Loe and Juan Dominguez.