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Jack Leiter was seven outs from a no-hitter against the Astros. He got one.

These hurlers could be due for breakout seasons after showing up to camp with better arsenals.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Robert Oppenheimer had an easier time developing a bomb than a slew of well-meaning pros who have worked for the Texas Rangers for decades have had developing pitching.

The top free agents have all signed contracts, but there are still plenty of moves for contending teams to make.

Thunder and lightning.

Juan Soto turned down Patrick Mahomes money from the Nationals, and that’s all it took to match trade deadline fever to the heat index. Suddenly the game’s greatest hitter, still only 23, is on the market.

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers just used the third overall pick in the MLB draft on a pitcher who is 22, and coming off a surgery so insignificant no one wants to discuss it.

For the second-straight year, the Texas Rangers have a top-five pick. It’s an opportunity the Rangers wouldn’t have liked to have in an ideal world, considering the pile of losses they’ve accumulated in the previous two seasons, but it’s still an opportunity for an influx of talent, nonetheless.

DALLAS — Somewhere along the way, every parent buys every child a first book. A "Goodnight Moon." "The Cat in the Hat." Some kind of ABC book. Something to help at bedtime and to foster reading.