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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