Texas Rangers 2020-2021 Offseason Thread

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Happy Veteran's Day to all of the veterans on here. Thank you for your service.

 

[DT LUNA]

Happy Veterans Day to those who served.

 

[DT LUNA]

Big ups to all the Vets who have served. You are appreciated and our freedom is precious.

I have quite a few relatives who served in Vietnam, WWII and wife has grandfather she never knew who stormed Normandy and died in the battle of the bulge orphaning her Mom. It has an effect too for our good but to her lacking the fatherly male influence in her development.
Praying for continued peace in our land

Thanks Kell

 

[DT LUNA]

Happy Veteran's Day to all of the veterans on here. Thank you for your service.

You are welcome Benny

 

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How can Texas Rangers become contenders

www.mlb.com

TR has a pretty good plan here.

 

[DT LUNA]

How can Texas Rangers become contenders

www.mlb.com

TR has a pretty good plan here.

Unless I over looked him, IKF was not mentioned. I can visualize him as a Michael Young type. Overall this is a good plan. The products are there but getting them up to the big league is a problem as he touched on. Palumbo injury for example. Also he warns that 2021 may be to soon and I agree.
What he did not talk about is what we have and do not need ( odor and possibly Gallo) and how to resolve it.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Some of y'all seriously think that the only thing keeping the Rangers from cutting Odor is JD's ego?

 

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Some of y'all seriously think that the only thing keeping the Rangers from cutting Odor is JD's ego?

Yep.

 

[saddles]

Unless I over looked him, IKF was not mentioned. I can visualize him as a Michael Young type. Overall this is a good plan. The products are there but getting them up to the big league is a problem as he touched on. Palumbo injury for example. Also he warns that 2021 may be to soon and I agree.
What he did not talk about is what we have and do not need ( odor and possibly Gallo) and how to resolve it.

He said this:

Three true hitters
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Nick Solak and Willie Calhoun need to hit. They don’t need to be in the middle of the lineup, but they need to hit: .280-.300, 30-40 doubles, 15-20 homers, 80-100 RBIs. Tough outs. More walks and less strikeouts. Michael Young? Chase Utley? Dustin Pedroia? Why not. Calhoun? How about Bobby Abreu or Nick Markakis.

 

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A former Rangers batboy to be named the new GM for the Angels.

 

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[Kelleyman]

Re Odor. Teams like the Rangers sometimes
make business decisions over baseball decisions.
This does not make JD blameless for the signing in the first place. Sure they thought they were signing him low but that backfired. Funny though other teams have been seen to eat bad contracts it not ours. To me cutting him will not matter a huge difference but we do need future players to get playing time.

IMO ego is not the ultimate reason JD has not cut him. He does not across as a guy that has to look good and more of a guy willing to take blame. Think you guys need to look a little deeper into the rationale

 

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[saddles]

Re Odor. Teams like the Rangers sometimes
make business decisions over baseball decisions.
This does not make JD blameless for the signing in the first place. Sure they thought they were signing him low but that backfired. Funny though other teams have been seen to eat bad contracts it not ours. To me cutting him will not matter a huge difference but we do need future players to get playing time.

IMO ego is not the ultimate reason JD has not cut him. He does not across as a guy that has to look good and more of a guy willing to take blame. Think you guys need to look a little deeper into the rationale

None of us know JD personally. We can only go on his decisions and actions. To me, the only reason that makes sense to keep Odor when we are rebuilding is stubbornness and ego combined, but ego driven. It is related to the size of the contract, but only because the bigger the contract the bigger hit to the ego to release that player.

Economically, as I have stated before, it makes sense to trade him for next to nothing and agree to pick up even 80% of his salary. The replacement to the roster to replace his replacement, Solak, is negligible. So dumping him doesn't hurt us financially at all. He has failed often enough to keep any reasonable baseball person from thinking he should be playing in front of someone who could be a part of the future.

Thinking through the situation in a fair and unbiased way can very easily lead to the conclusion that it is ego that is keeping Odor here. I cannot think of any good reason for him to still be here given our rebuilding status.

 

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Choo is a very nice guy and I hope his future is the best some where else.

 

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Departure of Shin-Soo Choo leaves Rangers avenues to potentially fix major issues in left field

As the Rangers head into the heart of the winter, general manager Jon Daniels is focused on a full-scale rebuilding program that is going to put more emphasis...

www.dallasnews.com

"But left field might be a place to take a low-cost chance on a right-handed hitter that would allow the team to move Solak to second and Calhoun to DH."

 

[DT LUNA]

None of us know JD personally. We can only go on his decisions and actions. To me, the only reason that makes sense to keep Odor when we are rebuilding is stubbornness and ego combined, but ego driven. It is related to the size of the contract, but only because the bigger the contract the bigger hit to the ego to release that player.

Economically, as I have stated before, it makes sense to trade him for next to nothing and agree to pick up even 80% of his salary. The replacement to the roster to replace his replacement, Solak, is negligible. So dumping him doesn't hurt us financially at all. He has failed often enough to keep any reasonable baseball person from thinking he should be playing in front of someone who could be a part of the future.

Thinking through the situation in a fair and unbiased way can very easily lead to the conclusion that it is ego that is keeping Odor here. I cannot think of any good reason for him to still be here given our rebuilding status.

I agree completely that ego is all that is standing in the way.

 

[scotsman1948]

I agree completely that ego is all that is standing in the way.

Ego may be part of it but I also can’t see the owners willing eating a 25M loss if we cut him