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(Reuters) - Power-hitting first baseman Prince Fielder of the Texas Rangers is scheduled to have season-ending surgery to repair a herniated disk in his neck, the American League team said on Thursday. Fielder, acquired last November in a trade with the Detroit Tigers for All-Star second baseman Ian Kinsler, will get a second opinion before going ahead with the procedure, Rangers General Manager Jon Daniels said on a conference call according to a report on Major League Baseball's website. Fielder had an injection last Friday that the Rangers hoped would be the solution. "It's a situation where there wasn't anything he could do about it," manager Ron Washington told reporters in Detroit, where the teams are playing while Fielder remained in Texas.
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