Keep 'Em or Old Yeller 'Em: Rangers Edition

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The GBag Nation crew run through the Texas Rangers free agents and decide who they would keep and who should be sent walking.

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00:00I would like to bring back at least Robertson and Yates.

00:02I just don't know that we have the the payroll to pull something off that like that.

00:05We'll check.

00:06Yeah, I'm all in on Yates for sure.

00:08I think you got to try and bring him back.

00:10I'd like David Robertson.

00:11I mean at 40 years old.

00:12I don't think for 7 million you're picking that up.

00:15Maybe you go ahead and try and work a deal if he wants to come back for a little

00:18bit less, but I mean the big question to me is is Leclerc like he's your World

00:23Series hero.

00:23You made a great run in the postseason what he was able to do, but I don't know

00:27like was that just kind of a flash in the pan in the pan for Jose Leclerc.

00:32Let's move on you're moving on moving on from that.

00:35I mean, you're you're talking about like some some real psychological.

00:42You know, no, I feel like that.

00:44You could probably get something better there.

00:47Many probably got guys that you're thinking about that were starters that you

00:51want to move into those spots and stuff like that.

00:53I it's just too up and down for me on that guy.

00:56I mean things have to fall into place for you.

00:58So well to win that World Series with the Adventures that Leclerc and Chapman

01:03took us on and the runners they got on and those are the things that a good GM

01:07thinks about the good GM doesn't think well, this guy's special.

01:10He won a World Series.

01:12He's got the makeup of a champion.

01:14Now some guys do like it appeared that Montgomery probably did.

01:18Yeah, it's obvious of Aldi does it's obvious Seager does but you know guys

01:24that are falling flat on their face after winning you a championship.

01:27I think you have to be more leaning towards let's move on from the role

01:31players and hang on to the guys that are are, you know, proven clutch gene

01:36dudes and you it's clear who those guys are on your team.

01:38Yeah, and it's a much more difficult decision in the offseason right after

01:42winning the championship.

01:43I think now that you've had a year to kind of sober up from I mean brought us

01:47is still still blowing a .03 or so at least did we ever sober up but I think

01:54you're able to be a little bit more logical and rational about some of

01:57these things.

01:58Yeah, Nathan of Aldi at 34 years old.

02:01That's the litmus test for the entire offseason in the Rangers plans, right?

02:05They got a I think that's a move that you have to make.

02:08I mean, I think Yates in of Aldi.

02:10Those are the two guys for sure.

02:11I'm trying to bring back in Evo.

02:14Yeah, we'll see.

02:15I mean, he's going to have an option.

02:17I wonder about the Houston Astros.

02:19I mean, he's a kid from Alvin, Texas to the Astros come over and say we'll

02:23offer it will go ahead and offer more than what the Rangers are willing to

02:26go through and then he's going to have to make that decision.

02:29Do I might in this for 5 million more?

02:32Is it 25 million with Houston 20 million with the Rangers, whatever it

02:35is, but I think the leadership.

02:37I mean, that's every time we did a player show with a pitcher.

02:40It was Nathan of Aldi and how he's taking guys under his wing and the

02:43calmness and the leadership and the veteran mentality and every get big

02:46games.

02:47I mean, you know, he's showing up.

02:48I think of all the is a must-have bag.

02:51I mean, you could go ahead.

02:52No, you can make a case that you don't need him on paper.

02:54Yes, I can with the amount of guys that you have with the quality that you

02:58have, but we're talking about intangibles and paper.

03:02Great game big game stuff, dude.

03:04And I think if of all these back that like that means he's been sold by

03:09Cy and this team that they're really trying to win.

03:12He above anybody is a dude, especially at this point in his career.

03:16He wants to be somewhere.

03:17He's going to win.

03:18So if he inks the deal back with the Rangers, I think that means hey,

03:21that's a good sign that other things are going to be coming here as the

03:25offseason progresses and then even into the trade deadline for next season

03:28as a team that's going to be trying to win.

03:30And as well Chuck mentioned, I mean, there's nobody has an entire clubhouse

03:35under their wing when you lift it up when you lift up of all these wing

03:39the entire clubhouse is under it.

03:40That's a great point.

03:41Not just the pitchers.

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