The Major League Baseball draft was today, and the Texas Rangers passed on their glaring, decades-old pitching deficiency once again. Even though it's difficult to remember a Rangers pitcher that was a household name for any reason other than being a Medic-Alert spokesman, Texas decided to go instead with a fielder.

Texas drafted Justin Smoak, a switch-hitting first baseman that experts compare to Mark Teixeira. Perhaps they should just set their sites a bit lower and look for a guy that is similar to Teixeira, but not quite as good. Tex stayed in Arlington just long enough to get his value up and become the face of the franchise, then Texas couldn't pay him and had to trade him for a catcher and a bag of dirt.

Maybe if he had tweaked a hamstring somewhere along the way, he'd still be living in the Lone Star state.

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