ARLINGTON - Planning to contend in the AL West?
Then you better have a plan for retiring Albert Pujols and Mike Trout late in games against Los Angeles; Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer and Evan Gattis against Houston. While the Rangers lineup may lean a little to the left, the game-changers for the other expected contenders in the division are mostly right-handed. And mostly they bedeviled the Rangers last year.
But they have never presented much of a problem for free-spirited right-hander Tom Wilhelmsen, the newest member of the Rangers' menagerie of late-inning relievers.