Texas Rangers 2024-2025 Offseason Thread

[Duane1952]

Rangers Sports Network (RSN) has partnered with several traditional cable and digital television providers which will carry the team’s game broadcasts this season. While the club continues to finalize deals with many other providers, the current list of partners slated to televise the Rangers this season includes DirecTV, DIRECTV STREAM, AT&T U-verse, and Spectrum. Each distributor will house a specific channel for RSN and that individual channel will go live for the club’s pregame show, the game broadcast, and postgame productions. Traditional providers’ customers will have the ability to authenticate through Victory+ for access to the streaming platform.

Provider	Channel
Direct TV	677
U-Verse	1752 (HD)/752 (SD)
Spectrum TV App/Xumo	448

Unfortunately I have frontier fios. Looks like I will be signing up for Victory +z.

 

[fanman8825]

Yeah, they have the station number picked out. I guess they just aren't going to make those stations active until it is closer to them being needed.

I just got dish. Anything there with the Rangers?

 

[saddles]

I just got dish. Anything there with the Rangers?

Not yet, but they are still adding providers.

 

[saddles]

Cleveland has signed the great Kolby Allard to a minor league deal.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

For what it's worth the Rangers and Yankees had the highest rated offseason in the AL per Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman with a B+:

• Acquired IF Jake Burger from Miami via trade
• Re-signed SP Nate Eovaldi to a 3-year deal
• Signed DH Joc Pederson to a 2-year deal
• Signed C Kyle Higashioka to a 2-year deal
• Signed RP Chris Martin to a 1-year deal
• Signed RP Hoby Milner to a 1-year deal
• Signed RP Shawn Armstrong to a 1-year deal
• Signed RP Jacob Webb to a 1-year deal
• Acquired RP Robert Garcia from Washington for 1B Nathaniel Lowe

After unleashing the soggiest, least-inspiring World Series defense in recent memory, the Rangers have been encouragingly active this winter as they seek to bounce back.

Why was 2024 such a disaster? 1) Injuries and regression for key offensive pieces such as Josh Jung, Evan Carter, Adolis García and Jonah Heim. 2) The bullpen, besides Kirby Yates and his 1.17 ERA, was a boat made of tissue paper.

Texas has addressed the second point head-on, adding five relievers this winter to completely refurbish a group that finished 2024 with the fifth-worst ‘pen ERA in MLB. Adding Pederson and swapping Lowe for Burger should give the offense more depth if the injury bug comes back around. Rangers back-up catchers had just nine extra-base hits in 207 plate appearances last year, so Higashioka’s arrival should be an underrated boon. Keeping Eovaldi on a three-year deal is a risky move — 35-year-old hurlers rarely get such lengthy commitments for a reason — but he has been a durable and dependable presence atop Texas’ rotation.

Nothing the Rangers did this winter was earth-shattering or headline-grabbing, but the team is deeper and better built now than it was three months ago.