For those wondering, Chris Martin was a freshman at Arlington High School when Hunter Pence was a senior, and Adam Moore transferred to UT-Arlington two years after Pence was selected in the 2004 draft.
They didn’t know each other before MLB teams came calling.
All three were together Sunday in the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse on the eve of the first full-squad workout, having taken different roots to finally wearing the uniform of the team they grew up cheering.
Martin experienced it last season in the first year of a two-year deal he signed after reviving his career in Japan.