Heading into the 2021-22 offseason, the Texas Rangers needed...well, they needed a lot of things, coming off a 102 loss season.
But in particular, the team needed starting pitching. They ended the 2021 season with only one pitcher under team control who would seem to have had a starting rotation spot locked down — Dane Dunning. There were a number of young interesting arms the Rangers looked at in the rotation in 2021, and a number of really nice starting pitching prospects who appeared to be a year or two away in the system, but other than Dunning, there was no one who you’d expect to be penciled into the 2022 rotation.