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Rangers spring training issues, Part 3: Can Texas finally rely on its bullpen?

The Rangers will head to Arizona for spring training next week with more substantive questions about the club than perhaps at any time in the last decade. They are coming off just their second losing season since 2009 and looking up at a division that includes the defending world champions for the first time in 16 years.

Each day this week, we will examine one of the questions they will attempt to answer in the six weeks leading up to the March 29 opener against the world champion Houston Astros:

No. 3: How to build a better bullpen

The single-biggest issue the Rangers had in 2017 was the lack of reliability in the bullpen.