More urgency now to start Neftali Feliz The last few weeks, general manager Jon Daniels hasn't attempted to hide the fact that his club is strongly considering moving Neftali Feliz into the starting rotation. The closer will be stretched out in spring training and have an opportunity to compete for a starting job. It's one thing to talk about the hypotheticals when you're flying to Arkansas three times and feeling like Cliff Lee could still come to Arlington. Now that he's not, I bet the Rangers pull the trigger and insert Feliz into the rotation. Yes, they could make some other moves this offseason to alter that thinking. But if he shows enough with his secondary pitches -- and those pitches improved as the season wore on -- the Rangers will feel like he can impact the club more starting every fifth day than he would out of the bullpen. Does Feliz have good enough stuff to start? The club needs to find out. In a perfect world, he could have one more year to refine those pitches. But if he is the closer, he's not relying as much on the secondary stuff. He'd be forced to work through his offspeed and breaking stuff if he's in the starting rotation. The club would need to show some patience, but if Feliz could handle the load, it would be a big boost to a rotation that just took a hit with the departure of Lee. It's the difficult call of whether you move a guy who seems to have Mariano Rivera potential to the starting rotation. But at his age, if it didn't work, he could always return to the bullpen. Daniels reiterated on "The Ben & Skin Show" this morning that it's something the club must consider. Daniels said it's not "comfortable" because of how good Feliz was in the closer role in 2010, but the club will look at it. "We've got to factor it in," Daniels said. "Look at the market. The top starting pitchers are getting 20-plus million dollars a year. The top closers are getting 10 to 12. There's a reason for that. The industry has figured out that there's significantly more value if Feliz can be a top of the rotation pitcher. I don't know if he can be. I know he's got some attributes that would make you think he can be. But he's just 22 years old. He's one of the youngest guys on our team. It's something we've got to think about." So the club will stretch him out as a starter, like they did in 2010, and see what he's got. They'll have to make a decision by the middle of the spring. I think he'll end up in the rotation. Do you want to see him start? How do you think he'll do? 資料來源:ESPN-Dallas(Rangers) http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/texas-rangers/ Feliz能否證明自己的第二球種能進步到可以宰制大聯盟的打者呢?? -- 2010 Texas Rangers Postseason Franchise Roster (SP)Cliff Lee (C)Benjie Molina (1B)Mitch Moreland (2B)Ian Kinsler (SS)Elvis Andrus (3B)Michael Young (LF)David Murphy (CF)Josh Hamilton (RF)Nelson Cruz (DH)Vladimir Guerrero (SP)C.J. Wilson (SP)Colby Lewis (CL)Neftali Feliz (RP)Darren O'Day (RP)Darren Oliver (SP)Derek Holland (RP)Alexi Ogando (RP)Michael Kirkman (C)Matt Treanor (OF)Julio Borbon --

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