Texas Rangers Baseball Thread

[BigTex]

Even though he gave up a run in one inning of work, it was good to see Matt Bush pitching again.

[Mark]

The Royals scored nearly 30 runs and we only lost two games. I'll take it.

[BigTex]

Ronald Guzman out for the season.

[Mark]

In the five games since last week's mid-season break, the Rangers have been outscored 43-3, including being shut out in three consecutive games.

This is very ugly right now.

[BigTex]

Even though they didn't win many games, they were entertaining to watch early in the season. This thing has taken a serious turn for the worse.

[Mark]

Woody was really pissed when he appeared on the Monday night post-game presser. He said that some guys need to decide if they really want to be here.

[Mark]

Woody was really pissed when he appeared on the Monday night post-game presser. He said that some guys need to decide if they really want to be here.

I guess he was talking about Solak. He got sent down to Round Rock today.

[Mark]

The losing streak since the mid-season break now stands at 8.

ETA: I guess the good news is that the Rangers will get another top 3 or 4 draft pick next year. Right now, the Diamondbacks and Orioles are in front of the Rangers, but the Rangers are working hard to catch them.

[Mark]

In the current 10 game losing streak, the Rangers have been outscored 73-18. U-G-L-Y.

Since the break, Adolis Garcia is 4 for 29 with zero extra base hits and zero RBI. He is up there just swinging at everything. The league has figured out that you don't have to throw him strikes.

[Mark]

The Rangers took Vanderbilt pitcher Jack Leiter with the second overall pick in the draft a couple of weeks ago. The Rangers haven't signed him yet, and the deadline for signing draft picks is this Sunday at midnight.

[Mark]

Leiter has signed.

[Mark]

The Rangers worked hard to extend Joey Gallo, but Gallo is represented by Scott Boras, and that's just not how Scott Boras does business.

I'm not going to presume to know how good this package they got in return is.





The Rangers and Yankees are reportedly nearing agreement on a deal that would send Joey Gallo and Joely Rodríguez to the Bronx in exchange for a four-player prospect package. Once finalized, the expectation is that Texas will receive infielders Ezequiel Duran, Josh Smith, Trevor Hauver and right-handed pitcher Glenn Otto in return. (Initial reports had suggested outfielder Everson Pereira and righty Randy Vasquez might also be involved, but the expectation is now that those two players will remain with New York).

With Texas’ window of team control dwindling, the team’s last-place standing in the AL West, and recent reports that extension talks weren’t progressing, Gallo’s name was bandied about in plenty of trade rumors. He was also linked to the Padres, Blue Jays and Braves in recent days, but the Yankees ultimately put forth the offer that the Texas front office deemed the strongest.

Indeed, it seems the general opinion from public prospect evaluators is that the Rangers did well in this deal. Texas didn’t get a marquee headliner, per se, but they added a group of talented young players to an already-deep farm system.

All four prospects Texas is expected to acquire appeared on Baseball America’s midseason ranking of the top 30 prospects in the Yankees system, with Duran (6th) and Smith (8th) checking in among New York’s ten most promising farmhands. Eric Longenhagen and Kevin Goldstein of FanGraphs have already slotted the group among Rangers prospects. The aforementioned quartet all checks in among Texas’ top 40, with Duran and Smith again among the top ten.

FanGraphs pegs Duran as a 50 FV, the equivalent of a top 100 overall prospect. Ranking him third in the Rangers system, Longenhagen writes that the right-handed hitting second baseman has plus raw power and some chance to stick at the position. He’s mashing this season at High-A, hitting .290/.374/.533 with twelve homers as a 22-year-old.

Smith, meanwhile, was a second-round draft choice out of LSU in 2019. He’s also performed at an incredible level in the low minors and had an even better .320/.435/.583 mark in High-A this year. He’s not especially toolsy, and he’ll turn 24 years old next month, but Longenhagen writes that Smith has a chance to be a plus hitter and should at least develop into a high-end utility option.

There are similar stories for Hauver and Otto. Both are having stellar seasons in the low minors and project to be at least solid role players. It’s a well-regarded group of young talent, and it’s likely at least one or two will wind up important contributors when the Rangers are better positioned for contention a few years from now.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/07/ ... nt-2301252

[Mark]

Kyle Gibson and Ian Kennedy should both be traded by the end of the week.

[BigTex]

I guess the trade makes money sense. But I'm not happy if I have season tickets.

[Mark]

The Rangers offered Gallo 5 years and $100 million. Boras was asking for over $300 million. Obviously, they were miles and miles apart, and thus, the trade.

Scott Boras is bad for baseball.




Grant reports that the Rangers offered Gallo a five-year, $84MM extension that could have become worth more than $100MM if Gallo hit various incentive clauses and escalators within the deal. Gallo has one year of arbitration eligibility remaining, so this proposed extension would have covered the 2022 season and then four free agent years, keeping Gallo in the fold through his age-32 season.

The asking price from Gallo and agent Scott Boras was, as expected, considerably higher — something north of $300MM. That figure would surely have been spread over a much longer contract (Grant noted the Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper deals as possible comps) than five years, and deferred money or opt-out clauses could well have been part of the deal if negotiations had gotten even somewhat serious. Aiming high with an initial offer is standard negotiating practice, and it could be that Boras was floating a purposely huge number on the slim chance that Texas was desperate enough to keep Gallo that they would accept.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/08/ ... l#comments

[BigTex]

Jonah Heim stepping up to fill the void.

[crocmommy]

Oh good...not sure I know any of the players left on this team. Is Kiner-Falefa still there? I don't really watch too much now because it's not on the televsion the way we have it set up and I am sure not going to pay extra to watch them lose.

[Mark]

Oh good...not sure I know any of the players left on this team. Is Kiner-Falefa still there? I don't really watch too much now because it's not on the televsion the way we have it set up and I am sure not going to pay extra to watch them lose.

Over the past few days, the team seems to have a new spring in it's step. The young guys are playing hard. They just took the lead against the Angels on a double steal.

[Mark]

And IKF is still the starting shortstop.

[Mark]

The Rangers called up Jimmy Herget today, and he looks fantastic tonight. He's thrown a total of 18 pitches to get through the 6th and 7th innings.