Rangers spring training issues, Part 2: Fixing strikeout problems on both sides of the ball

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The Rangers will head to Arizona for spring training next week with more substantive questions about the club than perhaps at any time in the last decade. They are coming off just their second losing season since 2009 and looking up at a division that includes the defending world champions for the first time in 16 years.

Each day this week, we will examine one of the questions they will attempt to answer in the six weeks leading up to the March 29 opener against the world champion Houston Astros:

No. 2: Better understand the impact of strikeouts on both sides of the ball

The Rangers have to address a strikeout issue.

In short, they piled up too many on offense and, on the…