The latest acquisition in the Texas Rangers’ rebuild is a 17-year-old whose season in the Dominican Summer League was interrupted by surgery.

At least it wasn’t Tommy John surgery outfielder Alexander Ovellas required last month. He needed a broken hamate bone removed from his right hand.

The outfielder is hitting again and will be a player when he makes the six-mile trek from the Chicago Cubs’ academy in the Dominican Republic to the Rangers’ compound in Boca Chica.

His trek to the Rangers’ big-league roster might take around, oh, six years.

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