ARLINGTON -- The Rangers really didn't know about Prince Fielder or Adrian Beltre when everybody showed up for Spring Training in Arizona.
Fielder had the biggest doubts surrounding him because he was coming back from a serious neck injury that required surgery and limited him to 42 games in 2014. But there were also questions about Beltre because of his advancing age, a contract that was coming down to the end and his own publicly-expressed desire to play his final years with a contending team rather than one that was going through a major rebuilding project.