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Italian rookie pitcher Sam Aldegheri shines in his first major league victory as Angels defeat Rangers. Exciting baseball action and notable retirements in...

Jack Leiter, a pitching prospect, debuts for the Texas Rangers, continuing a family legacy in MLB.

Thunder and lightning.

Juan Soto turned down Patrick Mahomes money from the Nationals, and that’s all it took to match trade deadline fever to the heat index. Suddenly the game’s greatest hitter, still only 23, is on the market.

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers just used the third overall pick in the MLB draft on a pitcher who is 22, and coming off a surgery so insignificant no one wants to discuss it.

For the second-straight year, the Texas Rangers have a top-five pick. It’s an opportunity the Rangers wouldn’t have liked to have in an ideal world, considering the pile of losses they’ve accumulated in the previous two seasons, but it’s still an opportunity for an influx of talent, nonetheless.

DALLAS — Somewhere along the way, every parent buys every child a first book. A "Goodnight Moon." "The Cat in the Hat." Some kind of ABC book. Something to help at bedtime and to foster reading.

CHICAGO – Where to begin? How about at the end.