The Rangers haven’t selected a high school player in the first round of the MLB Draft since 2018. That changed on Sunday night, when Texas selected Gavin Fien, a shortstop out of Great Oak (Calif.) high school,

The Rangers veered off their recent history of preferring college players to dip into deep class of high school shortstops.

The Texas Rangers announced Josh Owens as a two-way player. That's notable, because if they had no plans at all to let him continue his doubling-up on the diamond, they could've just said he was an outfielder.