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Shawn McFarland is profiling<\/a> the Rangers top 30 prospects and takes a look at number 29, Braylon Morel, and number 28<\/a>, Frandel Pineda.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Walcott had internal brace surgery<\/a> on his elbow Mk day and is looking at a 4-6 month rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Walcott observed<\/a> that you can\u2019t speed up your recovery just by wishing it would happen faster.<\/p>\n

Jack Leiter has been experimenting<\/a> with a cutter this spring in an attempt to be able to offer three fastball variants to hitters.<\/p>\n

Leiter says he learned<\/a> the pitch from Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet over the offseason.<\/p>\n

Evan Carter started<\/a> in left and Wyatt Langford in center in Tuesday\u2019s game against the Diamondbacks, though Schumaker says they will be moving them between those positions to see what works.<\/p>\n

Former All Star closer Alexis Diaz threw<\/a> a scoreless inning yesterday in an attempt to come back from back a 2025 season in which he had an ERA over 8.00 with three different teams.<\/p>\n

Jacob Latz is absolutely determined<\/a> to land a starting role on the Rangers even if the Rangers don\u2019t seem all that enamored with the idea.<\/p>\n

As Corey Seager enters<\/a> his 12th major league season, Buster Olney has him ranked as the 5th best shortstop in the majors.<\/p>\n

Kevin Sherrington pens<\/a> an open letter to Chris Young where he asks if the Rangers really had a culture problem last year or if the just had a crappy offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn McFarland is profiling the Rangers top 30 prospects and takes a look at number 29, Braylon Morel,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,39144,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-592516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rangers","11":"tag-rangers-morning-links-posts","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-rangers","14":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116132488726095767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}