CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The questions were rather blunt.
The quickly-delivered answers were, too.
It's almost as if Jon Daniels had already been through the process before. Perhaps in his own mind. The subject: The reasons for why the Rangers find themselves in this great rebuild on which they have embarked.
Had he been guilty of being too insular in thinking? Had the Rangers held on to some schools of thought too long?
"I think so," Daniels said during this week's MLB General Managers' meetings. "We have awareness of stuff we've done well and some stuff we haven't and stuff to which we haven't had enough exposure.