What trades will Woody make? Gallo? Soto? Deadline approaches as the Rangers visit Mike Trout in the hospital

[WastinSomeTime]

Duran drives in Smith
Like the sound of that

Our youngins all contributed in that inning. Update: Including Heim.

 

[Bmurph]

So much for the 1 run ballgame, I was hoping to pull out

 

[DT LUNA]

Othani may have a new team before long

 

[Bmurph]

Garcia you swing at that pitch for strike 3 every freaking time and you cant hit it with a 37" bat

 

[Bmurph]

Othani may have a new team before long

I would love to have that dude

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Okay Bush, lets don't make this more difficult than it is.

 

[DT LUNA]

Garcia you swing at that pitch for strike 3 every freaking time and you cant hit it with a 37" bat

He is exciting but no one said he is smart

 

[WastinSomeTime]

I would love to have that dude

With an extended contract.

 

[saddles]

Very good for both.

 

[Bmurph]

With an extended contract.

and without giving up any of our top 3 prospects...lol

 

[Bmurph]

Lowe a big league first baseman makes that play 100 times out of 100

 

[Bmurph]

Okay Bush, lets don't make this more difficult than it is.

He didnt but Nathaniel does.....

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Good pitching again.

 

[Nightcrawler]

I really didn’t want it to happen, but teams are probably going to want Duran in exchange for any starting pitcher We might acquire.

the mariners paid a steep price for their guy from the reds. Where was this package when we traded guys like Darvish, Hamels, Lynn, and Gibson?

 

[saddles]

I have a very bad feeling about these next 4 days. I am afraid the front office is about to show their impatience with the speed of the rebuild.

 

[saddles]

Several weeks ago I said that I fully expected the Rangers to trade away 5 to 8 of their top 20 prospects by the July31, 2022 trade deadline. I don't know that I am as convinced of that at the present as I was then, but I still think it is a strong possibility. Since I went out on a limb, I will stay on the limb.

One thing I thought of since then is that I need to make some kind of list of top 20 prospects to use in about 5 months to see how inaccurate I was. There is some wide discrepancy in the various lists regarding these type of rankings after you get to about number 10 or so. I have decided to look at some of the lists and try to come up with an amalgamation.

I will lean towards the lists of Prospects 1500, Keith Law, MLB Pipeline, Prospects Live, and Jeff Wilson. I have a little bit of an idea of Baseball Prospectus' list, but not really the order they had them in, so I am looking at theirs, but not giving it as much weight as I might have, if I could view it in its entirety.

These aren't necessarily in order. The further you go down the list the harder I found it to come up with as much agreement though.


Leiter
Winn
Jung
White
Vanasco
Foscue
Smith
Duran
Carter
Harris
Zavala
Acuna
Huff
Wendzel
Roby
Morrobel
Acosta
Bradford
Hauver
Henriquez

Just outside of the top 20 are Alexy, Kent, and Gutierrez.

So there we have it. Let's see just how many of those top 20 guys get traded. I hope not many at all.

I sure hope I don't turn out to be right about this. One of those guys, Henriquez, has already been traded.

 

[saddles]

Former Rangers manager, Doug Rader, turns 78 today. As much as some dislike Woody or Banny or Wash as manager, they were all much better than Rader. We will be hard pressed to ever find a worse one.

 

[scotsman1948]

I sure hope I don't turn out to be right about this. One of those guys, Henriquez, has already been traded.

that trade occurred before the season started not a few weeks ago

 

[saddles]

 

[scotsman1948]

figure we will make some moves that involve minor tics to the roster but nothing involving major prospects in the system
maybe after the season