It's Comeback Week in baseball. Sometime in the next couple of days, Ruben Sierra will stride to the plate for the Texas Rangers, proving just about anybody can do it. Sierra arguably has the most impressive baseball resume among this week's returnees, who also include Tom Gordon and Deion Sanders, but he's also likely to have the least long-term impact. And his return to the Rangers could very well be as short as the September stint he had in Texas last year. Sierra says he honestly believes he can be a big-time major leaguer again.
Scouts are politely skeptical.
He has been added to the roster because Chad Curtis went on the 15-day disabled list. He'll have to do a lot in a hurry to avoid a return to Oklahoma City. It was Canseco, after all, who was the other key figure in the Texas-Oakland trade from which Sierra's career never recovered. And it was the independent Atlantic League where Sierra had to go to keep his career alive a couple of years ago. The other comebacks could very well be key elements in baseball's most wide-open race, the National League Central.