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How Rangers try to encourage Rougned Odor to be aggressive at plate and disciplined at same time

ARLINGTON -- Once again the Rangers remind Rougned Odor to be aggressive at the plate, but to also have some discipline.

Odor entered Thursday having swing at the first pitch in 15 of his last 32 at-bats over the previous eight games. He’d put the ball in play nine times in that stretch, none of them for a hit and was averaging just 2.88 pitches per plate appearance. He is 2 for 13 this season on first-pitch swings, one of those being a homer in his second at-bat of the season. After a hot homestand, Odor batted just .