Where the Rangers’ Pitching Staff Stands Entering Spring Training

As spring training looms, Rangers still have plenty of work to do on pitching staff

DALLAS — The holiday gift blitz has subsided, those New Year’s Eve bar tabs have been paid and the grim reality check has arrived while the dead of winter truly sets in.

Where the Rangers’ Pitching Staff Stands Entering Spring Training

The Texas Rangers enter spring training in an unusual but not unfamiliar place: confident in the top of their pitching staff, uneasy about the total picture. On paper, the Rangers can reasonably argue they possess one of the deeper starting groups in the American League. In practice, they also know that depth only matters if it survives a full season.After a winter defined by payroll restraint rather than headline-grabbing moves, Texas heads to …