When I heard about his passing away I was thinking his name is just not mentioned as much as it should be when speaking of former players. The guy was electric.
There are some big money names and some we could use. Let' s see what our owners do. or not.
true but we won't participate
Agree especially on Apostel. The guy cannot even make contact. We need to give him a couple of years.
His style has never been duplicated. Smooth as they come.
Freeman is a hitting machine, a number of good players at SS, Syndergaard is from Texas and just 28 and if healthy would be a great pickup. Conforto has power and hits with an average around 250-270. Kershaw of course a Texas native is 32 and still can pitch but this is his 13th year in MLB. Scherzer can still get it done but he is 36 so I would not want to spend a bunch of money on him. Not really that interested in the others.
well as we have no intention of competing why not carry him as our backup 3B/1B behind IKF and Guzman and allow him to develop with the team? we're going to go that route with a number of players next season probably Taveras, Tejeda, maybe Huff and maybe White so carrying Apostel could be a good learning platform
I really hope that we make moves and of course there is no guarantee of that so that Taveras and Tejada get the majority of the playing time. If we are able to have a minor league system next year Huff and Apostel need to be there so that they get many ABs. Same with Taveras and Tejeda as I really do not want them sitting on the bench and getting ABs sparingly. It works out great for them now because they are playing almost everyday.
You nailed it. These kids can play in the field but they need to be hitting. Not sure if we will have a minor league but these guys need to be given all the time playing no matter where they will be. Got high hopes for these guys.
I hope we don't carry any of our prospects to ride the bench. They need to be playing every day somewhere.
Do you think we will never try to acquire a good free agent? I can't really blame you if you think that, but I sure hope you are wrong.
Getting rid of A Rod Fielder and Choo might make money more available. But who really Knows? If they want to win then they will have to spend big. We just d not know what they want.
There is a decent chance this is very close to the Opening Day lineup next year.
if we had alternatives for CF and catcher i could agree with you about Taveras and Huff but we don't have anyone except Trevino at C and Mathis is a 1-dimensional player who doesn't bring anything to the plate and other than an oft-injured Santana we have no one to play CF except White, Heineman and Solak who are all average to below average CF'ers. Considering that Andrus is on the downward slide Tejada should be starting at SS, Solak should be starting at 2B, IKF at 3B. Guzman at 1B.
We have not been paying much for ARod for quite some time and Fielder's payments have been helped by the insurance to some degree.
i don't believe that we will in 2021 maybe in 2022
You mean after the 2022 season?
For the record the Rangers will still be making payments to ARod until he is 50 yrs old in 2025.
