PHOENIX -- If the Rangers were to do anything that actually constituted the rebuilding of their farm system of which they have spoken this year, they had to face one very difficult reality: They had to be willing to trade somebody who came from that farm system, somebody who established himself as a major league and who still had more of a future than a past.
And this is how they got to the point Monday night in a power-outage delayed game that GM Jon Daniels trekked from his hotel suite to Chase Field, had Keone Kela called out of the bullpen in the seventh inning of a 9-5 win and told him he was headed for Pittsburgh.