Thursday was considered a success by Texas Rangers pitching coach Julio Rangel because the pitchers who were scheduled to throw their first bullpen sessions of spring training did so before rains soaked the Surprise Recreation Campus.
Half of the 40 pitchers threw, chief among them Mike Minor, Lance Lynn and Edinson Volquez. That’s 60 percent of the projected starting rotation and one of the three coming off Tommy John surgery who didn’t pitch last season.
That would be Volquez, and the other two, Drew Smyly and Shelby Miller will have their first bullpens Friday.