The Officially Official Off Season Thread (2016)

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Blech!

 

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Texas Rangers trying to deal within their financial reality

Daniels spent a good deal of his daily media briefing laying out the club’s financial reality. They’re at the bottom of the payroll spectrum, they’re not going to be at the top, and since 2010, when they were at the bottom, that hasn’t been a major obstacle.

This off-season was never going to be about securing one of the big-money difference-makers who potentially would make the Rangers a clear favorite to repeat in the West. It is about finding cost-effective moves that will keep the Rangers competitive.

“Our budget is in a range where there’s some room for growth, but this is about where I expect to be for the next few years,” Daniels said. “That places a premium on getting our own guys right, development at the major-league level, depth and getting creative in solving our needs.”

While the Rangers are financially constrained, in part because some big contracts they have on the payroll, they’re a little richer in the currency of prospects and bullpen depth. If the Rangers are to make a trade this off-season, they will ship players from those areas.

While a portion of the fan base might not be content with it or understand it why the mega-rich ownership group won’t grow the budget, Daniels has accepted the Rangers’ financial reality.

Maybe this reality bites, but, hey, it’s not like the Rangers are Tampa Bay.

“You can look at it both ways: One is, realistically, we can’t afford the top free agents, but the plus side of that is we can’t afford the top free agents because there’s a lot of risk involved,” Daniels said.

“We have spent. We don’t have a payroll in the bottom-third. We’re in the upper middle-third. Speaking as a fan, more importantly we won the division and have a good club. [Fans] go to the park to see a team win, play quality baseball in a fun environment and win, and not see dollar bills.”

The upper middle-third in this market is ridiculous.

 

[Bmurph]

Yes, he wants to improve the team. He wants to improve them on a budget that has remained close to static for 3 years now and on a budget that he is planning on keeping that way while other smaller market teams spend $20-30 million more per year. That can be done, but it takes a whole lot of very good and very cheap young players that we don't currently have. Some of the ones we do have close to coming up will likely be traded for stop-gap veterans to help us tread water in the 80s win range.

Maybe I will be wrong and JD will suddenly become a liar and spend more money. We can always hope.

Was all the tv revenue spent on prince? Why has the budget remained the same this year and beyond when supposedly the revenue from the tv deal netted substantially more $

 

[Bmurph]

Texas Rangers trying to deal within their financial reality

Daniels spent a good deal of his daily media briefing laying out the club’s financial reality. They’re at the bottom of the payroll spectrum, they’re not going to be at the top, and since 2010, when they were at the bottom, that hasn’t been a major obstacle.

This off-season was never going to be about securing one of the big-money difference-makers who potentially would make the Rangers a clear favorite to repeat in the West. It is about finding cost-effective moves that will keep the Rangers competitive.

“Our budget is in a range where there’s some room for growth, but this is about where I expect to be for the next few years,” Daniels said. “That places a premium on getting our own guys right, development at the major-league level, depth and getting creative in solving our needs.”

While the Rangers are financially constrained, in part because some big contracts they have on the payroll, they’re a little richer in the currency of prospects and bullpen depth. If the Rangers are to make a trade this off-season, they will ship players from those areas.

While a portion of the fan base might not be content with it or understand it why the mega-rich ownership group won’t grow the budget, Daniels has accepted the Rangers’ financial reality.

Maybe this reality bites, but, hey, it’s not like the Rangers are Tampa Bay.

“You can look at it both ways: One is, realistically, we can’t afford the top free agents, but the plus side of that is we can’t afford the top free agents because there’s a lot of risk involved,” Daniels said.

“We have spent. We don’t have a payroll in the bottom-third. We’re in the upper middle-third. Speaking as a fan, more importantly we won the division and have a good club. [Fans] go to the park to see a team win, play quality baseball in a fun environment and win, and not see dollar bills.”

The upper middle-third in this market is ridiculous.

Wtf is upper middle third?

 

[Bmurph]

Blech!

That dude stunk in the NL with the Brewers last year, why would we have interest? We have better options internally

 

[Kelleyman]

It would be nice to extend Belfre a year maybe 2 years based upon mutual options but yes legs are a concern. I always thought he was a natural progression to 1B and then to Dh. Intangibles do mean something but obviously production does as well and MY intangibles were not enough IMO

 

[Kelleyman]

Rangers have interest in reliever starring in Japan

We could sure use an extra catcher mentioned too

 

[scotsman1948]

That dude stunk in the NL with the Brewers last year, why would we have interest? We have better options internally

because he would only cost them 2 or 3 books of the green stamps the owners have given JD to do his job and still leaves him some books to find a RH bat.

 

[scotsman1948]

Rangers have interest in reliever starring in Japan

We could sure use an extra catcher mentioned too

we don't have enough green stamps for 1

 

[scotsman1948]

Was all the tv revenue spent on prince? Why has the budget remained the same this year and beyond when supposedly the revenue from the tv deal netted substantially more $

no it was to line the owners pockets

 

[Kelleyman]

we don't have enough green stamps for 1

Thought process for me. If owners recklessly spend and raise ticket prices wildly, I don't go out to the bsllpark. If they don't spend at all on the product and product suffers, I don't go out. Good to find middle ground. Regardless IMO it is foolish to make judgements on finanaciial without knowing full story but how can you? So yeah I do. Or predict doom and gloom because owners refuse to spend. Is that what was said when we got Hamels?

 

[donaldson79]

Marlins exec: Jose Fernandez will not be traded

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

Those kinds of trades are only for teams on the brink of greatness. Let's hope Houston feels they are on the brink and hands over tons of young talent for one guy. The D'Backs just gave up a shit ton for Wade Miley of all people. Please Astros get desperate.

Shelby Miller is who the D'Backs traded for. Wade Miley got traded from the Red Sox to the Mariners.

 

[DT LUNA]

because he would only cost them 2 or 3 books of the green stamps the owners have given JD to do his job and still leaves him some books to find a RH bat.

Is that a fact or an IMO?

 

[UK Cowboy]

Was all the tv revenue spent on prince? Why has the budget remained the same this year and beyond when supposedly the revenue from the tv deal netted substantially more $

Ownership decided all that TV money that was talked about for 2 years would now look better in their pockets...
Honestly, I don't want to see them spending $215 million for a David Price, but I don't want to see them pass on someone they really need because they don't want to spend money either