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This new baseball season begins Thursday with a familiar reality check for fans in the Lone Star State: the Houston Astros are still miles ahead of the Texas Rangers and a reasonable bet to play in the World Series for the fourth time in six seasons.The Rangers have made moves to close the gap, after finishing 35 games behind the Astros last season. The Rangers can do better than that this year, but a realistic goal for them in 2022 is simply to avoid a third consecutive last-place finish in the AL West, not to catch up to Houston. For at least another season or two, the song will remain the same.This isn’t what Rangers fans were hoping for after an off-season in which their…

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