Change up.

There are 59 players featured in the Rangers’ 2014 media guide.

Eleven are still here. Thirteen if you include Michael Young and Prince Fielder.

Players move on.

Change is the rule in pro sports, maybe even more so than outside of sports, where friends move, others move on, and your child gets her driver’s license.

There are eight coaches in that 2014 media guide, including a manager, and not one of them remains in Texas.

On page 15 are then-Assistant General Managers A.J. Preller and Thad Levine, who now GM other clubs, while on page 16 you’ll find Josh Boyd and Mike Daly, who now assume AGM duties with the Rangers, along with Jayce Tingler (page 322).

Derek is likely gone, and maybe Mitch and maybe Desi and maybe Carlos and Carlos.

Once Raffy left and in came Will. And after that, Raffy, again.

Mike Napoli came back, and maybe that happens again, too.

Josh left once, and he’s going to leave again, this time maybe more a final fade than a clean cut.

Like Dirk and like Pudge and like Emmitt, one day Adrian will move on, and one day Colby will, too, but so did Michael, and he came back.

Change isn’t meant to be easy, and it doesn’t always make sense, but it’s going to happen and sometimes it works out just fine.

If Cliff didn’t move on, Adrian isn’t here.

If Texas didn’t allow C.J. to leave, Yu isn’t here.

If Tony Romo didn’t get hurt and if Kellen Moore didn’t get hurt, then fourth-round pick Dak Prescott is equipped with scout team duties and a clipboard, or whatever Mark Sanchez or some other journeyman wasn’t already handling.

So long, Breaking Bad . . . but hey there, Better Call Saul.

Maybe Shawn Tolleson will move on and maybe he won’t. Maybe Joey Gallo and Jurickson Profar will report to someone else’s camp in February. Maybe I’ll get over the fact that MLB Network preceded this morning’s live spot with Jon Daniels by airing a collectibles segment about the baseball David Freese hit off Neftali Feliz 1,597 days before they became Pirates teammates.

Not cool.

Names like Eickhoff and Ortiz and Alfaro and Brinson belong to another fan base now, but that’s the kind of change that makes Cole Hamels and Jonathan Lucroy teammates. Here.

In comparison, there’s Kyle Hendricks, whose departure from the Rangers, at the time, barely registered.

Ryan Dempster: Same.

Losing Don Welke and Gil Kim was felt, as were A.J.’s and Thad’s departures, and Bobby Jones’s retirement will be, too.

Yet the arrivals of Tony Beasley and Anthony Iapoce, we come to learn, fit in the impact category, even if that didn’t fully register at the time, and maybe the addition of new Major League Field Coordinator Josh Bonifay this week to Jeff Banister’s staff (filling Tingler’s vacated role) is a bigger deal than the coverage it got might suggest.

Greater roles for Boyd, Daly, and Tingler, and for Mike Anderson, Scot Engler, Todd Walther, Jake Krug, Ross Fenstermaker, and Curtis Jung, mean they’ll still be around, with opportunities to make a bigger impact.

As far as player personnel goes, MLB Network Radio’s Casey Stern thinks the Rangers will make the biggest off-season impact of any team in baseball (“I think they’ll get a top flight starter, and then some. They know they’re close.”), and his show partner Brad Lidge puts Texas behind only the Angels.

Local and national writers have the Rangers in the mix for Chris Sale and Chris Archer and Rich Hill and Edwin Encarnacion and Dexter Fowler and Andrew McCutchen and Charlie Blackmon, and possibly Napoli. Lots believe Carlos Gomez is as likely to stay as he is to go, probably more so than Ian Desmond or Carlos Beltran.

A whole lot has changed with the Rangers these past few years, and that will continue. Nonetheless, this organization has played 162+ six times in the last seven seasons, and that’s the most in baseball.

The effort to make it seven of eight is underway, on the field and upstairs, and there is more change coming.

That can be a good thing. That’s the idea, at least.

So we might as well be ready for it.