Monday's news and notes from around the Texas Rangers organization...

-- 1B Tommy Joseph, who was claimed off waivers from Philadelphia in the final week of spring training, accepted an outright assignment to Double-A Frisco. Joseph had 43 homers in the majors over the last two seasons.

-- RHP Ricardo Rodriguez was moved to the 60-day DL in order to make room on the 40-man roster for RHP Bartolo Colon.

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-- RHP Tony Barnette (back stiffness) threw a 24-pitch inning in an intrasquad exhibition between the Rangers' top two minor league affiliates. He is expected to pitch an inning in Thursday in Frisco's opener, then pitch again on Friday. If all that goes well, he could be activated on Sunday.

-- INF Jurickson Profar has ramped up his work in the outfield, but manager Jeff Banister said he isn't quite ready to play there yet.