SURPRISE, Ariz. -- It was a strange day in the Arizona desert. Hail rained from the sky. Stranger still: Baseball players talked openly about anxieties and failures.
See, the new-age baseball isn't all about technology and data.
There's a healthy dose of self-awareness.
This was the topic of the Rangers' team talk Thursday before the rain chased them inside and a deluge of pea-sized hail pelted the spring training complex. In a sport that remains results-driven and one in which "success" often means only failing 70 percent of the time, the idea was to make players more aware of separating the process from the results.