World Series Champions, Texas Rangers 2023-2024 Offseason Thread

[Duane1952]

Nothing new on the Bally front.

I know earlier the Rangers said that they weren’t going to take less than what they were owed. This will be interesting.

 

[Kelleyman]

I know earlier the Rangers said that they weren’t going to take less than what they were owed. This will be interesting.

Word is they take the 15% discount
Bird in the hand

 

[saddles]

Burnes has been traded to the Orioles.

 

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[Duane1952]

Burnes has been traded to the Orioles.

I’m surprised the Rangers haven’t gone after Ben Williams.

 

[gregrey972]

This one hurts bc it seems he was gotten on the cheap in my opinion.

 

[saddles]

This one hurts bc it seems he was gotten on the cheap in my opinion.

I heard someone say it was the equivalent of us trading Walcott and White.

 

[Kelleyman]

I heard someone say it was the equivalent of us trading Walcott and White.

Nice comparison

 

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12 More Days

 

[saddles]

Baseball America says the Rangers equivalent to what the Orioles gave up would be Brock Porter and Dustin Harris. I would not trade Porter for one year of any pitcher. At some point we have to hold on to our pitching. We have already given Roby up in trade.

Every time I write Dustin Harris, I almost call him Donald Harris. I am very sorry for that, Dustin. Even if you never play a day in the big leagues, you have already been better than Donald Harris.

 

[saddles]

Some random notes on the Rangers financial situation.

It is hard to fault ownership when the payroll is right at or just about the luxury tax level.

Our not developing pitchers is costing us financially. If we had developed White or Winn already, we would have needed one less expensive pitching addition.

Our not recognizing the pitching we have developed continues to cost us. We could still have a very cheap and very good starting pitcher in Ragans. Some outside the organization had already noticed his improvement, yet the Rangers still kept him in the pen. Let's not make the same mistake with Bradford.

Had we spent on a decent relief pitcher last offseason, we could still have a very cheap Ragans in the rotation, that is, if we had tried Ragans in the rotation. Who knows, if we had kept him, he night still be in our bullpen.

At some point we have to take a chance on young pitchers and be patient with them. It might cost us some wins, but we could develop some really good pitchers who don't cost much of anything, if we do. Guys like Kent, White, Leiter and Acker may need to be brought up and given some time to get acclimated to the big leagues. Their final stages of development, up here in the big leagues, cannot be microwaved to completion.

As is the case with pitching, we might have to be patient with some young hitters. Evan Carter is the exception. We cannot expect every young hitter to hit the ground running like he did.

Degrom's injury and the trade of Ragans cost us financially as we had to find expensive replacements to their spots in the rotation.

If the Rangers were more willing to trust some younger guys it could save money. If would be financially prudent to trade Taveras and put LF up for grabs between Langford, Duran and Jankowski. Either way, Langford gets the spot eventually. Trading Taveras doesn't save a ton of money, but it wouldn't be so hard to pay Adolis if some of the money saved by trading Leody, was used to pay Adolis.

Foscue, Crim, Huff, and in a year or so, Abimelec Ortiz could all be in play for 1B. Trading Lowe would free up money as well.

The Rangers spent a lot to win the World Series last year. That may force the team to take a step back to recover financially. With all the talent we have coming up, we should be better than ever in the not to distant future

 

[scotsman#1948]

Some random notes on the Rangers financial situation.

It is hard to fault ownership when the payroll is right at or just about the luxury tax level.

Our not developing pitchers is costing us financially. If we had developed White or Winn already, we would have needed one less expensive pitching addition.

Our not recognizing the pitching we have developed continues to cost us. We could still have a very cheap and very good starting pitcher in Ragans. Some outside the organization had already noticed his improvement, yet the Rangers still kept him in the pen. Let's not make the same mistake with Bradford.

Had we spent on a decent relief pitcher last offseason, we could still have a very cheap Ragans in the rotation, that is, if we had tried Ragans in the rotation. Who knows, if we had kept him, he night still be in our bullpen.

At some point we have to take a chance on young pitchers and be patient with them. It might cost us some wins, but we could develop some really good pitchers who don't cost much of anything, if we do. Guys like Kent, White, Leiter and Acker may need to be brought up and given some time to get acclimated to the big leagues. Their final stages of development, up here in the big leagues, cannot be microwaved to completion.

As is the case with pitching, we might have to be patient with some young hitters. Evan Carter is the exception. We cannot expect every young hitter to hit the ground running like he did.

Degrom's injury and the trade of Ragans cost us financially as we had to find expensive replacements to their spots in the rotation.

If the Rangers were more willing to trust some younger guys it could save money. If would be financially prudent to trade Taveras and put LF up for grabs between Langford, Duran and Jankowski. Either way, Langford gets the spot eventually. Trading Taveras doesn't save a ton of money, but it wouldn't be so hard to pay Adolis if some of the money saved by trading Leody, was used to pay Adolis.

Foscue, Crim, Huff, and in a year or so, Abimelec Ortiz could all be in play for 1B. Trading Lowe would free up money as well.

The Rangers spent a lot to win the World Series last year. That may force the team to take a step back to recover financially. With all the talent we have coming up, we should be better than ever in the not to distant future

we may end up trading Duran and Taveras at some point this season so trusting young guys will come as early as opening day

 

[saddles]

We wouldn't gain anything financially from trading Duran since his replacement would cost just about the same, but him getting traded is still a possibility.

I think if they trade Taveras, Duran becomes more valuable to the Rangers since he can play the OF

 

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[saddles]

If the Rangers could only sign one of these free agent starting pitchers, which would it be, Jordan Montgomery now or Corbin Burnes a year from now?

 

[saddles]

Diamond Sports Group In Agreement With Rangers, Twins, Guardians For 2024

Diamond Sports Group has an agreement in place with the Rangers, Twins and Guardians, meaning Bally will plan to broadcast …

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“We are pleased to have reached agreements with the Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers that work for all parties and enable us to continue delivering high-quality, live game broadcasts on Bally Sports to dedicated fans through the 2024 season,” reads a statement from a Diamond spokesperson, per Drellich.

 

[saddles]

No news on if the rest of the TV contract(2025-2034) has been voided or not.

 

[Kelleyman]

No news on if the rest of the TV contract(2025-2034) has been voided or not.

Have to assume that is part of the agreement
Will have the streaming portion to negotiate

But yeah no official word from Rangers so maybe some details are being worked on still though agreement in principle is in place.

I still think the main goal for Bally is to make some current money and absolve themselves from some as much debt as possible