Metroplex

It’s enough to push the Texas Rangers — the reigning World Series champions — onto the back burner in the Metroplex.

“We need them to stay in the metroplex.”

Raleigh didn’t make it public knowledge on Tuesday and the Mariners weren’t certain he would be able to get the tooth handled while they were in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex or they would have to wait till they returned to Seattle.

But the Angels have no choice but to move on after the two-time AL MVP left owner Arte Moreno’s Orange County club this week for the Los Angeles metroplex’s much more successful baseball team, agreeing to a 10-year deal worth $700 million.

They board flights — we won’t assume charter given the hurting athletic budgets of the schools — and land in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.