FORT WORTH, Texas — Upon his hiring as the general manager of the Texas Rangers in 2001, John Hart famously said, “The landscape is littered with train wrecks that have never made the postseason.
“Clubs that are in large markets and have floundered around and never had a clear path. We are not going to become one of those train wrecks.”
From 2001 to 2008, the Rangers were one of those train wrecks.
