Did the Rangers leave Surprise with more pitching questions or answers?

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Your Rangers are back from Arizona for two final Spring Training games today and tomorrow, but did they return to Texas with their pitching situation all figured out? Kevin and Cory discuss both the team's rotation and bullpen in the video above.

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00:00You went in to spring training thinking that your rotation was probably set.

00:24Maybe Kumar Rocker would make a run at it.

00:27People were complaining about John Gray.

00:29Like, can we make him a closer?

00:31We were at a point where we were like, we're pretty stacked, but now we're picking at our

00:34own starting rotation here.

00:36And instead, you walked away, and you talked about this earlier, with Mally, DeGrom, and

00:43Evaldi in two spots up for grabs.

00:46Now, popular thinking is that Leiter and Rocker will take those spots to start, within Corbin

00:52eventually once he is up to speed and has got his arm built up, taking one of those

00:58spots you have a left-handed presence in there.

01:00And I still think that is the way that it is likely to play out.

01:04But you've got to be more concerned about the rotation now than before, right?

01:09Because of those three pitchers who are going to pitch, you have DeGrom, who I hope he's

01:14fine.

01:15But obviously, notoriously, has had a bunch of arm issues.

01:17Tyler Mally missed, what, like a year and a half?

01:20And then he came back, had three starts, had to be shut down.

01:23We had a scare in spring training as well.

01:25And so the Rangers went a bold direction in building their rotation with people who have

01:31had injury concerns.

01:33And then when those players have injury concerns, you wonder about the depth.

01:37I wonder about the depth.

01:38Okay, so that's interesting the way you just said that.

01:41They built it on players with injury concerns.

01:44They did.

01:45Chris Young said, my job, I think a GM's job is to constantly think about the things that

01:54could go wrong.

01:56And prepare for the worst case scenario.

01:58It is weird that when you're saying that, you're signing guys that worst case scenario

02:02is probably going to play out more likely.

02:05But I do appreciate, because how often do we argue that the Cowboys don't think that

02:10way?

02:11They're like, no, no, they're going to put a star on their helmet and then they're going

02:13to be better.

02:14Magically get better.

02:15And with the Rangers, Chris Young is just like, I'm going to have to have a plan.

02:18I think that he's always kind of observing.

02:21They're always watching positions of need and trying to figure that out.

02:26We still probably have a lot of questions about the back end of the bullpen and what

02:32it's going to look like and how much we trust it.

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