Texas Rangers Pitchers Remaining Ready for Start of MLB Season

Sports Illustrated's Bri Amaranthus and Chris Halicke discuss the impact the coronavirus shutdown is having on Texas Rangers pitcher readiness.

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00:00You know what's fun? Predicting the Texas Rangers starting rotation with just the

00:05glimpse that we got from spring training. How did it look? Very good. But as more

00:10and more time passes without baseball, we have to wonder what is that starting

00:15rotation looking like now? Well when it comes to the starting rotation,

00:19obviously that was the biggest concern with the Texas Rangers whenever this

00:23whole shutdown started going on when spring training camps were

00:27suspended. The health and the readiness of the starting rotation was going to be

00:32the biggest key because these pitchers have been working since they reported to

00:36to surprise you know back in mid-February. They've been working to get

00:43built up and they were nearly built up for the start of the regular season and

00:46here we are now you know stuck in limbo not not sure you know when the season is

00:52going to actually start. I know Kyle Gibson spoke on MLB Network

00:55radio on Monday morning and he you know talked about you know maintaining a bit

01:01of readiness and the other starters I'm sure will be doing everything that they

01:05can to stay as well and the Rangers understand the risk you know but they

01:08also understand that this is not exclusive to to the to the Rangers this

01:13is something that all 30 teams are gonna have to deal with and it's it's

01:17unfortunate this is just a very unfortunate situation for not just

01:21baseball but all of sports but the starting rotation will continue to do

01:25everything that they can to maintain readiness and obviously the the more

01:29amount of time that MLB gives each team or gives teams whenever they do have

01:34like a spring training 2.0 if you will the more the more time that they get

01:40there the more time that they'll be able to build themselves back up and get

01:45ready when the season actually does get underway.