The Rangers will face former teammate Yu Darvish in Wednesday's exhibition against the Chicago Cubs, and, of course, there were plenty of jokes.
But there is also one underlying question: Why is this happening?
Why is a team that spent the offseason on the hunt for starting pitching help facing a pitcher who lives in Dallas and who all but publicly asked for a return?
"He's in a Cubs uniform and there is nothing I can do about that," Elvis Andrus said. "I was praying for him to come back. I believe he wanted to come back.