Temporarily out of work

Despite batting .300 with 29 homers and 115 RBIs in leading the Texas Rangers to the 2010 World Series, outfielder-DH Vladimir Guerrero finds himself out of work 13 years ago today as Texas parts ways with the 2004 American League MVP.

Worry not for the 35-year-old Guerrero, though.

A little more than three months later, he signs with Baltimore for 2011, the 16th and final season of his Hall of Fame career.

With the Orioles, Guerrero receives a $2.5 million raise over the $5.5 million he earns in 2010 with the Rangers.

His production, though, is not as good as Guerrero’s 2010 stat line of 29 homers and 115 RBIs over 152 games for Texas drops in 2011 to 13 homers and 63 RBIs in 145 games with Baltimore.

Guerrero’s lone season in Baltimore follows one season in Texas, six in Anaheim and eight in Montreal, where his career starts at the end of the 1996 season.

Guerrero reaches the Hall of Fame in 2018, his second year on the ballot.

He goes to Cooperstown as the first player with a plaque featuring an Angels cap.

“I have never been around a player that took his A-swing so often and swung the bat so hard but squared a ball up more consistently than Vlad,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia tells MLB Network Radio after Guerrero’s election into the Hall of Fame.

“The guy was a machine at home plate.”

Vladimir Guerrero batting in 2011 against Anaheim