"Right-hander Mason Tobin was sitting in his 400-square foot apartment in Tempe, Ariz., in early December when he was informed that the Texas Rangers had acquired him in the Rule 5 draft.

Suddenly, Tobin found himself on a big-league 40-man roster and in major-league spring training after two years wrecked by an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery and two follow-up procedures."