ARLINGTON -- Major League Baseball on Monday assigned veteran Joe West as the crew chief for the umpires who will work the American League Division Series involving the Texas Rangers.

West, in his 39th season, will work the plate if the series goes to a decisive fifth game. This will be his 24th career postseason series.

The plate umpires for the first four games will be, in order, Chad Fairchild, Lance Barksdale, Sam Holbrook and Hunter Wendelstedt.

The Rangers this season were 8-3 when any of the five umpires had the plate and 16-13 in the last three seasons.

Corey Blaser is also on the crew, but he will not have a plate assignment.

West ejected Rangers manager Jeff Banister from a game on Sept. 19 for continuing to argue after a replay review went against the Rangers.

The play involved a ball, hit by Yunel Escobar of the Los Angeles Angels, that the replay official said was a double because it lodged under the padding on the right-field wall.

"I still stick with I think the umpires we have at the major league level are the best there is," Banister said after the game.