Bullpen woes rear its ugly head prompting Rangers' fans to ask what now?

There isn't a plethora of arms you can trust coming out of the Texas Rangers' bullpen right now.

Aside from Shawn Armstrong, who has been rock-solid all season, each of the relievers has had their fair share of shaky outings. The latest is Hoby Milner who came in and gave up a backbreaking late-inning 3-run homer to Ketel Marte in Tuesday's 5-2 loss to the D-Backs.

Who can you trust in the Ranger bullpen right now?

The answer is not many. Again, we will remove Armstrong from this group because he has come in and answered the call to the bullpen consistently and gotten opposing hitters out when it mattered.

But looking at the rest of the pen including Milner, Phil Maton, Danny Coloumbe, Robert Garcia, and Caleb Boushley, all of them have had struggles over the last several weeks of the season. Even as the Rangers have gotten back into the thick of the wild-card race winning 9 of their last 12 games.

If you look at their overall numbers, you'd think that things were much better than they are. For instance the ERAs for Milner, Maton, and Coloumbe are 3.13, 3.04, and 2.52 respectively, but they have all been inconsistent and untrustworthy as of late.

And Chris Martin has been injured so much that it is tough to imagine the 39 year-old being able to stay healthy for the final push with only 21 games remaining in the season.

So it leaves Young and Ranger fans asking who can they rely on in the late innings as the team makes one final push to make the playoffs.

The Rangers need these two free agents to step up and return to form

President of Baseball Operations Chris Young went out and signed Maton and Coloumbe in an effort to fortify a wobbly bullpen that has been using a "closer-by-committee" approach all season long.

Maton has a plus slider and has come in to save a game over his 12 innings of work since joining the club. But over his last 7 innings of work, he has surrendered 7 earned runs on 6 hits with 3 blown saves. He is a much better pitcher than that and it's time for him to step up.

Coloumbe is a crafty left-hander who relies on a change of speed to throw off the timing of the hitter. He was solid all season in Minnesota, but since arriving in Arlington, he has 7.56 ERA and has given up an uncharacteristic 9 hits in 8.1 innings pitched.

If the Rangers are really going to make some noise in September and hopefully October, then these two veteran free agents will be key.