Where the Rangers rotation is headed. Maybe.

At least the givens are the ones you’d want them to be.

Coming off a 94-loss season and a change in managers — but with Corey Seager and Marcus Semien already on board — Jacob deGrom arrived in December of 2022, with the ace and the Rangers committed to one another for five years and perhaps a sixth.

Attached to deGrom was the promise of surefire results, as long as he was on the mound. Texas bet at least $185 million that he would be. He was the comfort food.

Instead, in both 2023 and 2024, deGrom was a pop-up special. Fortunately for the Rangers, the six wins he helped them to in his six 2023 starts proved to be instrumental in the team reaching the playoffs and tearing through them all the way to a title, even though that part happened without him. As far as 2024 goes, Texas finished 10.5 back in the West and 11.5 back in the Wild Card chase; even 30 deGrom starts (rather than three) probably wouldn’t have prevented the club from missing the playoffs.

So it can at least be argued that full deGrom seasons in 2023 and 2024 might not have changed the ultimate outcome. Not that we’re looking for a silver lining.

Now we’re looking for much more from the 36-year-old. As things have turned out in camp, which will end today, deGrom has been one of two go-to rocks in the rotation, along with Opening Day starter Nathan Eovaldi.

The pitching picture is certainly different from what it was just 10 days ago. Which led me to look up something about the 2023 staff — and finding something that absolutely shocked me.