00:00Areas of need, what would be your Texas Rangers categories for trade targets, areas of need?
00:08Well, the starting pitching has been fine and help is on the way.
00:12Yep.
00:13All right, so not that. The bullpen, Robertson and Yates have been fine.
00:19Yep.
00:20They're not the problem. Okay, could they use a seventh inning guy, like a real,
00:24a better option at seventh inning? Sure. Is that a glaring need,
00:28especially when you're considering if all the starters come back,
00:31Michael Lorenzen's probably heading to the bullpen.
00:36If Malley and DeGrom are here, let's just say the time where everybody's here.
00:40Scherzer, Ivaldi, Malley, and DeGrom are all here.
00:44And then Gray, Lorenzen's probably an odd man out.
00:48You could use him as a trade chip if you wanted to.
00:51If you had him, why would you? Because you have him for depth.
00:54But you could throw him and Heaney in the bullpen.
00:56And all of a sudden, there's your bullpen help.
00:59And from a position player standpoint, you're going to get Young back.
01:02So you're looking for what? An upgrade for Nate Lowe?
01:06I know it sounds off, but is that the reality when you look at the roster?
01:12You could stand another outfielder.
01:15I mean, if you look at right now, let's just look at OPS plus right now in the outfield.
01:20Who is it is right now? Wyatt Lankford,
01:22Laoti Tavares, Adolis Garcia.
01:23A hundred is considered this is league average OPS.
01:26So basically anything above that is going to be.
01:28This is how much above you are. This is how much below you are.
01:31Wyatt Lankford is a 91 OPS plus.
01:34Adolis Garcia is a 95 OPS plus.
01:36Laoti Tavares is a 75 OPS plus.
01:38They are all below league average in the outfield that you've got to have more consistent bats.
01:42And what are you going to do? What are you going to do besides Laoti?
01:46Now, unless you're going to tell me you're fine with trading for a Lankford
01:51upgrade and then stashing him away and saying your time will come.
01:56Are you going to take him out of the outfield?
01:58That's the way he's playing. That's the way he's been hitting, right?
02:00You're not taking Garcia out unless you trade him away.
02:03You're not going to trade for anyone that you're going to try to upgrade there with.
02:09They're going to give him the respect of what he did last year to continue to have his spot.
02:14So unless you're telling me it's going to be a centerfield upgrade for Tavares,
02:19you're going to bench Wyatt?
02:21Yeah, I mean, that doesn't like if he if he continues to play well,
02:24that'll you'll get some of your questions answered here.
02:25But I think that is OPS plus.
02:27That's something that could be at least better.
02:29And by the way, it doesn't even necessarily have to be a start.
02:31If you just get a strong utility back, somebody who can come in and give you better bets.
02:34You've obviously not gotten nearly what you have in the last couple years from the catcher position.
02:39Jonah Heim's not been hitting as well as he has in previous years.
02:43You're getting nothing behind him.
02:44So I mean, if you wanted to add another catcher, they added a catcher last year was a defensive
02:47one. But I mean, they added hedges.
02:49And so I would wonder if maybe they would look at adding a catching option to be middle infield
02:54outfielder that could be in the rotation there.
02:57And then a catcher would probably be some of the things that stand out.
03:00A lot of the total Sean on the Phanteks are saying we just need a bat in general.
03:03806 says just need a bat desperately.
03:0590940 says need some power, maybe a right handed DH.
03:09And then 214 and 817 both say first base needs to be upgraded.
03:13Yeah, the first base one, I think, is the more obvious one of all of them.
03:16I like Nate Lowe.
03:17I think he's a good player, but I think you can absolutely at that position,
03:21at that position, which is a very big power position.
03:24I think I do think he could do better.
03:27He absolutely could do better.
03:28I mean, Peyton's been telling us that for two years now.
03:30That's his his big enemy.
03:31But I mean, yeah, you could you could get.
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