Texas Rangers 2021 - 2022 Offseason Thread

[scotsman1948]

From mlbtraderumors.com:

"It remains to be seen whether the Yankees will be willing to commit anywhere in the neighborhood of the $300+MM guarantees it could take to land Seager or Correa though. The club has two of the game’s most promising shortstop prospects — Oswald Peraza and Anthony Volpe — rising up the minor league ranks. Matthew Roberson of the New York Daily News reported yesterday that the Yankees were more likely to pursue a stopgap option than to play at the top of the market at the position based on the belief that Peraza and/or Volpe could take the reins in the not too distant future. If the Yankees were to eschew the star free agents at the top of the market,"

I know a stp gap option that they can trade for.

what would they offer for him?

 

[saddles]

Deal by Dec. 1 Commissioner's No. 1 priority

With two weeks remaining until the expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Commissioner Rob Manfred made it clear that he has one goal between now and Dec. 1. “We remain committed, No. 1 priority, to make an agreement prior to December 1,” Manfred told reporters Thursday at the...

www.mlb.com

The two sides met on Wednesday and have another bargaining session scheduled for Friday. Manfred said the league has told the union it is “prepared to work every single day” between now and the expiration of the current agreement to get a new deal done.
“Can I tell you that it's going to happen every single day? I know it's going to happen tomorrow and it happened yesterday, so there's a pretty good indication,” Manfred said. “We're going back and forth. Believe me, we’re ready to go.”

 

[saddles]

Jeff Wilson reports that both Curtis Terry and Ronald Guzman are interested in remaining with the Rangers.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Jeff Wilson reports that both Curtis Terry and Ronald Guzman are interested in remaining with the Rangers.

can't say i'm surprised or interested.

 

[saddles]

The Rangers should do whatever they need to do to not let the following guys get away today.

Vanasco
Duran
Ragans
Latz
Thompson
Dorrow
Seise
Henriquez

 

[saddles]

Wilson thinks these guys are possibilities to be DFAed.

Y. Hernandez
Colina
Pozo

 

[Kelleyman]

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Another reason: they fucking suck and need to get better. Where's my paycheck.

 

[saddles]

I just listened to Wilson's podcast with Tekoh Roby as their guest. Tekoh seems very mature for a guy who just turned 20.

 

[scotsman1948]

Wilson thinks these guys are possibilities to be DFAed.

Y. Hernandez
Colina
Pozo

can't understand y. hernandez

 

[True Rangers Fan]

can't understand y. hernandez

Depending on how things go, IKF ends up our UIF, replacing Hernandez

 

[DTC]

can't understand y. hernandez

I liked Yonny at first but get the feeling pitchers will not dance around him at the MLB level.
They’re going to go straight after him and throw strikes.
Does he have the power and bat to ball skills to get hits consistently in the majors without having to rely on a high OBP?

 

[saddles]

These are the guys I would consider jettisoning instead of losing other guys in Rule 5.

Josh Sborz
Dennis Santana
Spencer Patton
Spencer Howard
Eli White
DJ Peters
Y. Hernandez
Jonah Heim

 

[True Rangers Fan]

These are the guys I would consider jettisoning instead of losing other guys in Rule 5.

Josh Sborz
Dennis Santana
Spencer Patton
Spencer Howard
Eli White
DJ Peters
Y. Hernandez
Jonah Heim

easily one of the worst trades this franchise has ever made.

 

[saddles]

If Seager and Story are in different contract length ranges based on 2 years difference in age, shouldn't Story and Semien be in different contract length ranges too?

 

[True Rangers Fan]

If Seager and Story are in different contract length ranges based on 2 years difference in age, shouldn't Story and Semien be in different contract length ranges too?

to me they are.

9-10: Seager/Correa
7-8: Story
5-6: Semien

 

[scotsman1948]

Depending on how things go, IKF ends up our UIF, replacing Hernandez

rather trade IKF and utilize Hernandez and Ibanez as our utility infielders

 

[scotsman1948]

I liked Yonny at first but get the feeling pitchers will not dance around him at the MLB level.
They’re going to go straight after him and throw strikes.
Does he have the power and bat to ball skills to get hits consistently in the majors without having to rely on a high OBP?

but as a UIF he's good

 

[True Rangers Fan]

rather trade IKF and utilize Hernandez and Ibanez as our utility infielders

I would need to see a full year of Hernandez before supplanting IKF with him.

 

[scotsman1948]

These are the guys I would consider jettisoning instead of losing other guys in Rule 5.

Josh Sborz
Dennis Santana
Spencer Patton
Spencer Howard
Eli White
DJ Peters
Y. Hernandez
Jonah Heim

the bottom 3 aren't going anywhere until mid-season 2022