1.   Rangers players, in the meantime, are naturally reluctant to comment on the situation with the Red Sox.

2.   Rangers players say they expect similar treatment for their gold-plated teammate for the rest of the season.

3.   Rangers players, notably first baseman Will Clark, would suggest that this is not a team that deserves to be judged by its statistics.

4.   Rangers players could barely stand to look at Tuttle when he addressed them before a game in Tampa, Fla., this spring.

5.   Rangers players heartily welcomed Rodriguez.

6.   Rangers players through the years claim to know that burial-by-sun feeling.