Primrose Schools in DFW

Experience the joy of early learning at its best.

During your child’s first five years, nurturing the development of compassion, independence and resilience is just as crucial as setting the stage for reading and math. That’s why our Balanced Learning® approach combines character development with play and academics to give children a strong, well-rounded foundation for learning and life.

Thomas Saggese

POSITION: INFIELDER | DOB: 04/10/02 | HEIGHT: 5’11” | WEIGHT: 175

HOMETOWN: CARLSBAD, CALIF.

Saggese sped his way to Frisco after getting drafted in the fifth round by Texas in 2020. He made his pro debut in Single-A in 2021, spent most of 2022 in High-A and was promoted to Double-A in September, winning Texas League Player of the Week in the final series of the season. Saggese played the final five regular season games with the RoughRiders, plus all four postseason games, notching a hit in all nine games, most of them for extra bases. In the final game of the 2022 Texas League Championship Series, Saggese singled to score the game-tying run in the 9th inning and push the game to extras, when Frisco won in the 10th.

Josh Sale

POSITION: INFIELDER | DOB: 07/05/91 | HEIGHT: 5’11” | WEIGHT: 215

HOMETOWN: SEATTLE, WASH.

Sale was the 17th overall selection in the 2010 Draft, but by 2014, he had taken his final at bat in the Rays organization. He then went seven years away from pro baseball before joining the Atlantic League in 2021. He posted a .986 OPS in independent ball, earning a contract with the Rangers for the 2022 season. His first game in minor league baseball in eight years was with Frisco, when he suited up on June 5, 2022. After that one contest, he spent the rest of the year with Triple-A Round Rock, hitting 11 home runs with a .420 slugging percentage.

Chris Seise

POSITION: INFIELDER | DOB: 01/06/99 | HEIGHT: 6’1” | WEIGHT: 196

HOMETOWN: SCHENECTADY, N.Y.

A first-round pick (No. 29 overall) by Texas in 2017, Seise worked his way up to Double-A to open the 2023 season. Drafted out of West Orange High in Winter Garden, Florida, Seise played in the Arizona Complex League and Low-A Spokane in 2017, Single-A Hickory in 2019, High-A Hickory in 2021 and 2022. He spent part of the offseason in the Caribbean, playing in the Puerto Rican Winter League. He spent 547 innings in the field for Hickory over three seasons, all at shortstop.

Justin Slaten

POSITION: PITCHER | DOB: 09/15/97 | HEIGHT: 6’4” | WEIGHT: 222

HOMETOWN: HALLSVILLE, TX

A third-round pick in 2018 by the Rangers, Justin Slaten followed his threeyear career with the University of New Mexico by pitching in three seasons so far with the Rangers. Entering 2023, Slaten has logged 150 innings in the minors, mostly between High-A Hickory and Double-A Frisco. Slaten joined the starting rotation for part of 2022 with the RoughRiders but made most of his 25 appearances out of the bullpen, striking out 64 batters in 50.2 innings on the year.

Alex Speas

POSITION: PITCHER | DOB:03/04/98 | HEIGHT: 6’3” | WEIGHT: 225

HOMETOWN: POWDER SPRINGS, GA.

Speas is one of the longest-tenured players in the Rangers organization. Drafted in the second round by Texas in 2016, Speas endured a Tommy John surgery and the 2020 COVID cancellation before reaching Double-A in 2021. Speas did not pitch in the minor leagues in 2022 but returns to Frisco in 2023. The 25-year-old from Powder Springs, Georgia has an impressive 14.2 strikeouts-per-nine-innings rate in his minor league career entering 2023.

Nick Starr

POSITION: PITCHER | DOB: 12/03/96 | HEIGHT: 6’3” | WEIGHT: 225

HOMETOWN: CONWAY, ARK.

A 6-foot-3 right hander, Starr has played baseball all over the map. Born in Nashville, Tenn., Starr played at Connors State College in Oklahoma and Southern Arkansas University before signing with the Rangers in 2018. He played for the Spokane Indians in 2019 when Spokane was still a Single-A affiliate of the Rangers, made it to High-A in 2021 and spent all of 2022 with Frisco. Starr logged 30.2 innings for the RoughRiders at the back end of the bullpen, posting a 2.05 ERA and finishing 14 games, one of which was the final contest of the season. Starr got the last out of the Texas League Championship Game to help the Riders win their first league title since 2004.

Kellen Strahm

POSITION: OUTFIELDER | DOB: 4/25/97 | HEIGHT: 6’1” | WEIGHT: 215

HOMETOWN: EUGENE, OR

A product of San Jose State, Strahm is playing his fourth season in the Rangers organization after Texas selected him in the fifth round in 2019. He played 104 games last year for the RoughRiders, batting .277 with 26 extra base hits and a career-best 42 runs batted in. Strahm spread his time in the field more evenly last year after playing the bulk of his pro ball in center field his first two seasons. He played almost an equal number of games in left, center, and right. He recorded the final out in left field last year of the Texas League Championship Game, catching a fly ball to leave the tying run at the plate and win the title.

Nick Tanielu

POSITION: INFIELDER | DOB: 09/04/92 | HEIGHT: 5’10” | WEIGHT: 214

HOMETOWN: HUNTSVILLE, AL.

Tanielu started his pro career with a team in Texas, but it wasn’t the Rangers. Drafted in the 14th round in 2014 by Houston, Tanielu spent the better part of a decade in the Astros organization, ending with Triple-A Round Rock when the Express were still an Astros affiliate. After hitting .295 for Round Rock with a careerbest .880 OPS in 2019, Tanielu had to sit out 2020 and returned to Triple-A in 2021 with the Padres organization. He signed with the Rangers organization for the 2022 season and went back to Round Rock in 2022, splitting time between first, second and third base. The former Washington State Cougar turns 31 on Sept. 4th.

Owen White

POSITION: PITCHER | DOB: 8/09/99 | HEIGHT: 6’3” | WEIGHT: 199

HOMETOWN: MOUNT ULLA, NC

White was a three-sport star at Carson High School in China Grove, North Carolina and drew college football interest before being drafted in the second round by the Texas Rangers in 2018. Although White had Tommy John surgery in May of 2019, he came back to make his professional debut in May of 2021. A year later, he made it to Double-A and was solid with the RoughRiders. Getting four starts with Frisco, White posted a 2.49 ERA and allowed just one home run in 21.2 innings. White enters the 2023 season ranked No. 3 among Texas Rangers prospects.

Grant Wolfram

POSITION: PITCHER | DOB: 12/12/96 | HEIGHT: 6’8” | WEIGHT: 240

HOMETOWN: HAMILTON, MI

A southpaw from Davenport University in Michigan, Wolfram was chosen by the Rangers in the 18th round in 2018. Wolfram spent 2019 with Single-A Hickory, waited out 2020, and returned to Hickory in 2021 when the Crawdads had moved up to High-A. He made the jump to Double-A last year and switched to the bullpen, appearing in 39 games. Wolfram has been consistent in his three professional seasons, moving up a level each year and posting an ERA of 4.28, 4.21 and 4.42 in those three years.

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