00:00But yeah, what are your predictions for the Ranger season? Where do they finish? What
00:19kind of record they have? How do you see things playing out? I guess I'll I'll lead off here.
00:25So last year, I was pretty confident in that team because I felt like, all right, white
00:30Langford is going to just hit the ground running. No problems. Evan Carter is good to go. We
00:37already know we saw what he did at the end of 2023. He's only going to get better. All
00:40these guys, you know, you're going to as long as you got health, we're going to run back
00:43at some point. This is good. We're going to be good to go. And I think I predicted somewhere
00:48around like 92 wins or something like that. That clearly didn't happen. A lot of injuries
00:53did not. And that's going to be the big issue this year is how healthy are they? If they're
00:57healthy and I know it's easy for me to say, well, if you're healthy, yeah, of course.
01:01But for Texas more than anybody else, I think it was a fan graphs who had written recently
01:06and said Texas could finish like Texas could win the World Series.
01:11They can finish eight games below 500, just like they have the last two years. Either
01:14one of those feels equally likely with this Rangers team, just depending on a number of
01:19different factors. I think we're going to see a bounce back from Jonah Heim. We're going
01:24to see a bounce back from Adolis Garcia. I don't think that they're going to return to
01:27the levels that they were at previously, but I think you're going to see enough that it's
01:31going to make an impact. I'm going to say Josh Young stays healthy all year. You're
01:35going to have to weather some of the injuries with Jacob to Grom, but I'm going to believe
01:40in the health of Josh Young. I'm going to believe in Jack lighter.
01:45Finally putting things together a little bit and being a meaningful contributor, not a
01:48top of the rotation guy, but a meaningful contributor. And I'm going to say the Rangers
01:53win the AL West and that they finished the year 93 and 69. I think you did that because
02:00you wanted to do that right there. That last part. Why? I don't know what you mean. 93
02:04wins. Yeah, I get that. I don't I am not as bullish on Jonah Heim or Adolis. I think they
02:14are kind of what they are in the sense that, you know, is Adolis is like OPS, you know,
02:22going to be in the high sixes. No, I think it's probably going to be closer to low 700.
02:28So like a 720.
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