Mike Bacsik breaks down the Nathaniel Lowe trade & Joc Pederson signing

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The Rangers made several moves to get back into contention this weekend, trading longtime first baseman Nathaniel Lowe to Washington for reliever Robert Garcia. They then signed Lowe's replacement in DH Joc Pederson, a lefty batter who mashes right handed pitching. Mike Bacsik called in from vacation to break down both moves!

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00:00I'm looking at it the other night going well son of a gun man I Nate Lowe if we

00:21compare him to Will Clark if we compare him to Raphael Palmeiro if we compare

00:24him to mark to sheriff we compare him to kind of former Ranger greats that were

00:28first baseman his numbers don't stack up tremendously well right but if you look

00:34at Nate Lowe compared to what first baseman do in today's game because it's

00:41really weird we've talked about this on how first baseman offensive numbers have

00:45gone down recently Nate Lowe is a very good hitting first baseman in the

00:52American League yeah Vladdy jr. way better there's certain guys that are

00:55better but he finishes top five in almost every statistical category from

01:00an offensive perspective at first base so I was surprised that Chris Young

01:06traded him but I didn't know he had jock Peterson up his sleeve okay and

01:10we'll get to jock in just a moment to Mike but when it comes to Nate Lowe that

01:15dude I will give him ton of credit a one World Series but be also was not known

01:21as a defensive first baseman when he got here and worked very hard on his defense

01:25and then on top of that was a very productive part at times for what turned

01:31out to be a World Series champion didn't he have like an 18 pitch at bat that

01:35really really took things the next level against Houston so I will give I'm gonna

01:39miss him it was nice to have him but I understood kind of the direction they

01:43were looking at there yeah he was a great personality to I mean we've got to

01:48know him in spring training I got to know him traveling with the team he's

01:52just he's a really fun loving guy he's a guy that probably keeps the clubhouse

01:56loose he's a guy that I know keeps the media loose he is a good personality and

02:02a good teammate and he will be missed but I think this goes to they didn't

02:08play 500 baseball last year I mean in the end in September they played better

02:13and I get it like people stopped paying attention they weren't in a race though

02:17Cowboys had started and I'm not asking people to pay attention to September

02:21baseball if the Rangers are dead and gone out of a playoff race and most

02:25people stop following it he had a nice September he improved his numbers but I

02:30think Chris Young looked at it like I talked about the other day and now Chris

02:35Young doesn't have a defending world champion he doesn't have a team that

02:39made it to the playoffs and I think Chris Young I'll compare it to a little

02:43bit of this the Philadelphia Eagles he's like I don't care what they did in 2023

02:49now that is I think to Chris Young I'm not gonna say completely dead and gone

02:54but he's changing the team we're seeing where he feels like he can change the

02:58team and he's changing to see team to see if it can be better than 2024 and

03:03not just relying on 2023

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