Rangers Catcher Geovany Soto Caught with Weed, Which Is Pretty Understandable, Really

After being swept at home by the Houston Astros (!), your Texas Rangers now own the worst record in baseball. Suffering through injuries and errors, they've been at a total loss, with no solutions, nothing to ease the pain, nowhere to turn. Until now. Catcher Geovany Soto was arrested in...

By Sky Chadde

July 11, 2014

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After being swept at home by the Houston Astros (!), your Texas Rangers now own the worst record in baseball. Suffering through injuries and errors, they've been at a total loss, with no solutions, nothing to ease the pain, nowhere to turn. Until now.

Catcher Geovany Soto was arrested in Grapevine on Wednesday, when police found him holding the only viable antidote the Rangers have for making it until September: weed.

Soto, who is, of course, out with a knee injury, was charged with having less than two ounces of pot, a Class C misdemeanor, which carries a fine of up to $500. He has no court date yet and has not picked an attorney as of Friday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County District Attorney's office told Unfair Park.

He was released on bond of $500, and did not, as far as we know, share any of his stash with this guy, although that would have been nice:

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