The Texas Rangers enter the season as a legitimate contender in the American League West. But is the controversy enveloping manager Ron Washington serious enough to distract — or even derail — a team so reliant on young players?
Washington admitted testing positive for cocaine and that as a player he used marijuana and amphetamines. Has his authority been undermined?
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“The key for the Rangers and Ron Washington is to keep a normal undercurrent of disobedience [in the clubhouse],” said ESPN baseball analyst Orel Hershiser. “We’ve seen teams function and succeed when the volume is really high in that area. And we’ve seen teams just disintegrate at the slightest thing … What he did is put himself in a very precarious position in a very, very tough job to begin with.”
