ARLINGTON -- New Rangers hitting coach Anthony Iapoce has a simple message for his players.
"Win every pitch," Iapoce said. "Everybody talks about, yeah, I wasted that at-bat. But you wasted that pitch in the at-bat. Over the course of a 162-game season, how many pitches did you take off where you weren't focused enough? It becomes stressful when you're grinding every pitch.
"Every pitch could be a life-turning event. You could change people's minds in the stands with that pitch that you grinded out and hit a bloop, or turned on one and hit a walk-off home run.