Getting (a) Closer to My Home.

Now what?

Here’s what I know about Chris Young.

No, strike that. I don’t know. In my day job, there’s this thing about knowing; it’s the thing you’re always trying to capture. Have you experienced it? Seen it? Or just heard it?

Are we going to have to lean on circumstantial evidence?

I don’t know this about Chris Young, but every indication that’s come our way, and some that I’ve been privy to myself, all point to the same thing: this is an extraordinarily competitive man.

They’re all enormously driven to win in his position, across the league and across sports. All of them. (Sorry: most of them.) But the Chris Young competitive streak — helping to fuel a perceptive, whip-smart, determined focus — is borderline-legendary, and a bullet point. It just is.

The fact that, as an aggressive, creative, refueling, seemingly successful offseason draws closer to flights to Arizona, the Rangers still don’t have an established relief pitcher with ninth-inning experience on the payroll is at least a little surprising.

But the offseason isn’t quite over.