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Longtime Texas Rangers coach and former major leaguer Hector Ortiz died Wednesday after a prolonged battle with cancer, the club announced. He was 54.
Ortiz had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2020, but he remained on the minor league development staff for the past three years. He was a member of the major league staff from 2015-20 under former m