Texas Rangers 2024-2025 Offseason Thread

[scotsman#1948]

From Jon Morosi:

The Orioles and Braves are among the teams with interest in free agent Nathan Eovaldi, as I mentioned on @MLBNetwork this morning.

and Boston

 

[saddles]

Happy Thanksgiving, guys!

 

[DT LUNA]

Happy Thanksgiving, guys!

Back at You Bennie

 

[scotsman#1948]

Happy Thanksgiving, guys!

happy thanksgiving to you and all

 

[Duane1952]

Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[DT LUNA]

Happy Thanksgiving.

thanks duane and back at you

 

[saddles]

Vanasco signs a minor league deal with the Tigers.

 

[Kelleyman]

Ready for the Rangers to swing some deals, maybe a FA signing and hopefully not lose anyone during Rule 5

Baseball is sooner than we think

 

[saddles]

Ready for the Rangers to swing some deals, maybe a FA signing and hopefully not lose anyone during Rule 5

Baseball is sooner than we think

I believe this is the anniversary of the Seager signing

 

[saddles]

Ready for the Rangers to swing some deals, maybe a FA signing and hopefully not lose anyone during Rule 5

Baseball is sooner than we think

Signing a reliever or two and signing Austin Hays makes too much sense not to do do fairly quickly. It is time.

Let's go, CY!

 

[scotsman#1948]

Signing a reliever or two and signing Austin Hays makes too much sense not to do do fairly quickly. It is time.

Let's go, CY!

like Hays but he might cost $10+M for one season and Jesse Winker who can play both LF and RF and bats left could be had for 1 year $2-3M

 

[saddles]

like Hays but he might cost $10+M for one season and Jesse Winker who can play both LF and RF and bats left could be had for 1 year $2-3M

I think you may be overestimating how much Hays will get. He was only projected to get about $6 million in arbitration.

To me, Hays is the perfect complimentary player for Evan Carter since Hays hits lefties so well.

 

[saddles]

I think you may be overestimating how much Hays will get. He was only projected to get about $6 million in arbitration.

To me, Hays is the perfect complimentary player for Evan Carter since Hays hits lefties so well.

Also, Hays can play all three OF positions and was a Gold Glove finalist a year ago.

 

[scotsman#1948]

I think you may be overestimating how much Hays will get. He was only projected to get about $6 million in arbitration.

To me, Hays is the perfect complimentary player for Evan Carter since Hays hits lefties so well.

according to multiple sites Hayes is projected to earn at least an AAV of $10M. a lot of experts are questioning why Philadelphia passed on his projected $6M

 

[saddles]

according to multiple sites Hayes is projected to earn at least an AAV of $10M. a lot of experts are questioning why Philadelphia passed on his projected $6M

This quote is from mlbtraderumors.com from 10 days ago.

"Teams seeking a low-cost, right-handed bat to plug into their outfield mix figure to have interest in Hays. Many non-tendered players ultimately sign minor league deals, but Hays was a notable enough contributor with the O’s from 2021-23 that he ought to find a one-year deal in free agency, presumably a price south of his projected arbitration salary."

 

[saddles]

Here is The Bleacher Report's projected Opening Day lineup for the Rangers.

Projected Starting Lineup

2B Marcus Semien
SS Corey Seager
1B Nathaniel Lowe
RF Adolis Garcia
3B Josh Jung
DH Josh Smith
LF Wyatt Langford
C Jonah Heim
CF Evan Carter
SP Jacob deGrom

 

[scotsman#1948]

This quote is from mlbtraderumors.com from 10 days ago.

"Teams seeking a low-cost, right-handed bat to plug into their outfield mix figure to have interest in Hays. Many non-tendered players ultimately sign minor league deals, but Hays was a notable enough contributor with the O’s from 2021-23 that he ought to find a one-year deal in free agency, presumably a price south of his projected arbitration salary."

wasn't arguing with you about Hays. if they could get him at around 6M it's all good

 

[scotsman#1948]

Here is The Bleacher Report's projected Opening Day lineup for the Rangers.

Projected Starting Lineup

2B Marcus Semien
SS Corey Seager
1B Nathaniel Lowe
RF Adolis Garcia
3B Josh Jung
DH Josh Smith
LF Wyatt Langford
C Jonah Heim
CF Evan Carter
SP Jacob deGrom

although i might put Langford at 4 and Garcia at 7 until we see what Garcia we have

 

[saddles]

wasn't arguing with you about Hays. if they could get him at around 6M it's all good

Oh, I understood. Just trying to share some information. That is the only estimate I saw regarding him, after scouring the internet.

 

[saddles]

From Jamey Newberg:

Winter ball update.​

I mentioned in last week’s Hops that Ezequiel Duran had nearly as many walks as strikeouts in his first 42 Dominican Winter League plate appearances. He’s keeping it up: in another 20 trips this week, he drew six more walks while fanning six times.

This continues to be very interesting. Last year in the DWL, Duran walked once in 54 plate appearances. As a minor leaguer, he’s drawn an unintentional walk every 15.4 times up, and in the big leagues, it’s been once every 19.7 trips. Not good.

But if this small winter sample tells us anything — and it may not — walking 11 times in 62 plate appearances (once every 5.6 trips) at least suggests he’s developing some better habits at the plate. Making himself more difficult to pitch to would be an exceptionally good development.