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What do the Rangers need to address at the trade deadline?
KRLD-FM / 105.3 The Fan
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6/26/2024
With the MLB trade deadline a little over a month away, Ranger fans are hoping for some new additions to get the defending WS champs back on track. What positions do the Rangers need to address at the deadline? Are they even likely to add anyone?
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00:00
Areas of need, what would be your Texas Rangers categories for trade targets, areas of need?
00:08
Well, the starting pitching has been fine and help is on the way.
00:12
Yep.
00:13
All right, so not that. The bullpen, Robertson and Yates have been fine.
00:19
Yep.
00:20
They're not the problem. Okay, could they use a seventh inning guy, like a real,
00:24
a better option at seventh inning? Sure. Is that a glaring need,
00:28
especially when you're considering if all the starters come back,
00:31
Michael Lorenzen's probably heading to the bullpen.
00:36
If Malley and DeGrom are here, let's just say the time where everybody's here.
00:40
Scherzer, Ivaldi, Malley, and DeGrom are all here.
00:44
And then Gray, Lorenzen's probably an odd man out.
00:48
You could use him as a trade chip if you wanted to.
00:51
If you had him, why would you? Because you have him for depth.
00:54
But you could throw him and Heaney in the bullpen.
00:56
And all of a sudden, there's your bullpen help.
00:59
And from a position player standpoint, you're going to get Young back.
01:02
So you're looking for what? An upgrade for Nate Lowe?
01:06
I know it sounds off, but is that the reality when you look at the roster?
01:12
You could stand another outfielder.
01:15
I mean, if you look at right now, let's just look at OPS plus right now in the outfield.
01:20
Who is it is right now? Wyatt Lankford,
01:22
Laoti Tavares, Adolis Garcia.
01:23
A hundred is considered this is league average OPS.
01:26
So basically anything above that is going to be.
01:28
This is how much above you are. This is how much below you are.
01:31
Wyatt Lankford is a 91 OPS plus.
01:34
Adolis Garcia is a 95 OPS plus.
01:36
Laoti Tavares is a 75 OPS plus.
01:38
They are all below league average in the outfield that you've got to have more consistent bats.
01:42
And what are you going to do? What are you going to do besides Laoti?
01:46
Now, unless you're going to tell me you're fine with trading for a Lankford
01:51
upgrade and then stashing him away and saying your time will come.
01:56
Are you going to take him out of the outfield?
01:58
That's the way he's playing. That's the way he's been hitting, right?
02:00
You're not taking Garcia out unless you trade him away.
02:03
You're not going to trade for anyone that you're going to try to upgrade there with.
02:09
They're going to give him the respect of what he did last year to continue to have his spot.
02:14
So unless you're telling me it's going to be a centerfield upgrade for Tavares,
02:19
you're going to bench Wyatt?
02:21
Yeah, I mean, that doesn't like if he if he continues to play well,
02:24
that'll you'll get some of your questions answered here.
02:25
But I think that is OPS plus.
02:27
That's something that could be at least better.
02:29
And by the way, it doesn't even necessarily have to be a start.
02:31
If you just get a strong utility back, somebody who can come in and give you better bets.
02:34
You've obviously not gotten nearly what you have in the last couple years from the catcher position.
02:39
Jonah Heim's not been hitting as well as he has in previous years.
02:43
You're getting nothing behind him.
02:44
So I mean, if you wanted to add another catcher, they added a catcher last year was a defensive
02:47
one. But I mean, they added hedges.
02:49
And so I would wonder if maybe they would look at adding a catching option to be middle infield
02:54
outfielder that could be in the rotation there.
02:57
And then a catcher would probably be some of the things that stand out.
03:00
A lot of the total Sean on the Phanteks are saying we just need a bat in general.
03:03
806 says just need a bat desperately.
03:05
90940 says need some power, maybe a right handed DH.
03:09
And then 214 and 817 both say first base needs to be upgraded.
03:13
Yeah, the first base one, I think, is the more obvious one of all of them.
03:16
I like Nate Lowe.
03:17
I think he's a good player, but I think you can absolutely at that position,
03:21
at that position, which is a very big power position.
03:24
I think I do think he could do better.
03:27
He absolutely could do better.
03:28
I mean, Peyton's been telling us that for two years now.
03:30
That's his his big enemy.
03:31
But I mean, yeah, you could you could get.
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