The strings. You must notice the strings. If there was one tangible piece of evidence in spring training camp that best captured how Chris Young is going to rebuild the Rangers, it is those strings.
They are a pair of parallel, yellow strings strung tautly across the bottom of the strike zone in front of the home plates corresponding with the six-pack of bullpen mounds.
Such strings were once a staple of camps, no more famously than behind the clubhouse at Dodgers camp in Vero Beach, Fla., where everyone from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela to Orel Hershiser learned to dot pitches at the lowest edges of the zone. Dodgers pitchers referred to it as sacred ground.
