SURPRISE, Ariz. - Spring training is not about results or performance. It is about a process.
Disclaimer: Unless you are a Rule 5 pick.
Then it is very much about all those things.
Welcome to the paradoxical spring of Carlos Tocci.
Tocci, 22, could very possibly win an opening day job, though he has exactly 54 at-bats at Triple-A. Or by the end of March, he could be sent back to the Philadelphia organization whence he was plucked in December's Rule 5 draft. There really isn't much of an in-between. And all the Rangers have is about 30 days, playing under a notoriously tricky sky and often against minor league pitching, to decide whether Tocci can make this significant jump.