00:00So the Rangers clearly last year, not a great season, 78 and 84, but in the blurb from Bowden
00:21first for the Rangers, they have a significant number of impact players who were injured
00:25last year and are now healthy, such as Jacob DeGrom, Evan Carter, and Josh Young.
00:30Second, they have a plethora of young talent ready to break out, including Wyatt Langford,
00:36Carter, and Kamar Rocker. Third, and this is something that we've talked about a lot in the
00:41offseason, they acquired two more power bats this offseason, trading for Jake Berger and signing
00:47Jock Peterson, which lengthens their lineup and gives them eight of nine batters who have hit
00:5320 home runs in a season. Fourth, they have a deep starting rotation. Now I realize that
00:58that starting rotation can start to crumble if like DeGrom were to get hurt or... Yeah,
01:04and to your point this year, you really have to watch all of your guys' innings pitched as the
01:09season progresses. So if guys are healthy for the first two months, that's awesome.
01:13The issue will be if they've racked up approximately 50 plus innings after two months,
01:18I still have four more months to play with guys that didn't pitch much in 24.
01:22Exactly. Now you take those four factors with the core lineup, again, this is from Bowdoin,
01:28of Seager, Simeon, and Adolis, and it's easy to see the Rangers being formidable again.
01:34When future Hall of Famer Bruce Bochy led the Giants to three World Series titles,
01:38he did it every other year, 10, 12, and 14, rather than consecutively.
01:42Will history repeat itself this year for Bochy? So a very glowing review, as you might imagine,
01:49of the Rangers' prospects for this season if you're going to have them fourth. What do you
01:53think about the idea? I am super excited that the Rangers are back and we're about to start
01:58the season. Four does still seem high. It does, and I would agree with Jim Bowdoin
02:06if they had a closer. If I felt better about the last three outs, I think that they could maybe win
02:14the most games in the American League. It's hard to believe that you could win more games than the
02:17Dodgers this year. To be honest, their depth is insane.
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