Wild pitching.

Martin Perez’s last three full months on a big league mound: 11-4, 3.23 over 17 starts.

Derek Holland’s six starts to finish 2014: 1.46 ERA, five walks in 37 innings.

Matt Harrison’s last healthy season (2012): 18-11, 3.29, number eight in AL Cy Young vote.

Yu Darvish, every year.

None of them are around, but all of them should be back, sometime this year or early next, with the possible exception of Harrison if you’re not buying into all the really positive updates coming out of Surprise.

None of them have contributed to the current 13-game run in which Rangers starters have posted the third-best ERA in baseball (2.71), as noted by Jared Sandler (Rangers Radio Network/105.3 The Fan). Only once in that stretch has a Rangers starter permitted more than three earned runs: a four-run permission by Wandy Rodriguez a week ago today. All of that without Yu or Derek or Martin or Matty.

Never mind that over those 13 games, Rangers starters have combined to win just one game (last night’s Wandy gem). We’re talking about the team with the longest current win streak in the American League.

(Two.)

Elvis Andrus (.333/.455/.389 over his last 10 games, with eight walks and five strikeouts) is coming alive, and so is the pop in Shin-Soo Choo’s bat (.286/.304/.667 since coming back from a few days off). Adrian Beltre (.291/.350/.400 over his last 60 trips, hits in 12 of 14 games) is waking up, Prince Fielder (.350/.407/.485) has been a blast to watch all year, and Kyle Blanks (.391/.440/.826) is here.

But that pitching. Think about the idea of Yu and Derek and Martin and Matty returning, and being able to run Nick Martinez out there as your fifth, which assumes that Yovani Gallardo is just a one-year proposition (not necessarily a lock). Ross Detwiler in the pen, if he’s back. Colby Lewis in some role, perhaps.

Which is to say nothing of Chi Chi Gonzalez or Jake Thompson, and if you didn’t see Scott’s farm report yesterday, take a look. The Thompson bullet train is on track.

Or Luke Jackson or Alec Asher or Jerad Eickhoff or Andrew Faulkner or Chad Bell, and don’t write Anthony Ranaudo off yet.

Knock yourself out if you want to write Wandy off, and I’ll be the first to admit I’d like to see another few weeks before wondering whether the Scott Kazmir/Aaron Harang category might have a new candidate.

But he was dominant over eight last night, retiring the final 19 he faced against the best team in the American League, and that was fun.

Wandy’s last big league win was late in May 2013, at a point on the schedule when Darvish already had seven wins and was headed toward runner-up recognition in the Cy Young vote, when Holland was 5-2 with a 2.81 ERA, and when Perez was back from the minor leagues for a second look and about to establish in a big way that he belonged.

All of that seems so long ago, even if Harrison recuperating from back surgery doesn’t.

Imagine if those guys come back this year or next to join a pitching staff that, even in its decimated state, has been really pretty good, especially over the last couple weeks.

But that’s down the road a good ways. For now, I’m content to settle in tonight for Colby Lewis-Samuel Deduno, as the club with the longest win streak in the AL seeks to extend it, having won its first series of 2015 and looking for its first series sweep since taking care of the Astros late in September, when Darvish and Harrison and Perez and Scheppers and Ogando and Fielder and Choo and Moreland and Profar and a few others were on the Rangers’ 60-day disabled list, Blanks was on Oakland’s 60, and Wandy Rodriguez, a little more than seven months before last night’s absolute clinic on the mound, was unemployed.