Rangers prospects holding onto hope

It's not everyday that a major league team ships two of its top pitching prospects 10 time zones away to see if they can be sold to another team. In Japan. But that's exactly the situation the Texas Rangers find themselves in with righthanders Omar Beltre and Alexi Ogando. It's not that the Rangers don't believe the two Dominican prospects don't have the talent or the mental makeup to make it in the United States; it's that they aren't even allowed in the US. [link]