For an organization that has heavily invested in scouting and developing its own, the Rangers’ Opening Day lineup should feature roughly one-third homegrown players.
That’s neither big nor alarming.
As a franchise that spends big money, the Rangers use “their own” to flip for proven talent — i.e. Cole Hamels, Jonathan Lucroy. Or they buy the talent, i.e. Adrian Beltre, Yu Darvish.
For the sake of this franchise’s farm system, however, it would be nice if outfielder Nomar Mazara hit. Figuratively and literally.
Mazara needs to do for the outfield what Rougned Odor has done for the infield — represent this franchise’s developmental system from seedling to oak.