Clearance Sale, Everything Must Go: 2017 Texas Rangers Thread

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dtownreppin214 said:
I was going to make a thread the other day....Clearance Sale, Everything Must Go: '17 Texas Rangers Thread.

I'm not feeling too confident about this season. Bullpen has been :snoop:

Hopefully we can trade Yu for a Mark Texeira type of haul.
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track 1 said:
We will finish last in the west
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Neg me my fellow dallas county brehs


And we don't even have beltre. What's Gallo gonna do when he comes back? Cole rest well. Cashner and the other white guy cant think of his name right now. Nick Martinez holding down the fort.

Bush is the best closer in the league.

Our team is looking a lot better than April
 
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LurkMoar said:
i just want that otani kid, miss me with this season :dame:
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Supposedly we are the favorites.

Rumor Central: Rangers have inside track in Otani sweepstakes?
What are the chances Rangers can land Shohei Otani? Should Texas let him bat as well as pitch? | SportsDay

The hottest name not in the MLB is Japan's Shohei Otani, and he's being called the Japanese Babe Ruth.

So with the Rangers' past luck with landing Japanese players, could they have the inside track on Otani as well?

In a Wednesday interview with ESPN Dallas 103.3's J Dub City, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian said the Rangers have as good a chance as anyone.

"I've heard only good things about him, and our scouting of players from that region has gotten so much better that it's not a crapshoot anymore. They know," Kurkjian said. "And everything I've heard about this guy is he is a difference-maker, and it's going to come down to, as always, who's got the most money to do this.

"The Rangers, obviously, have an inroad there with Yu Darvish and others; they know how to do this. I would think they have as good a chance as anyone. But those international signings are really, really tricky, and we've been fooled on those a lot. Yoenis Cespedes going to the A's, that never made a lot of sense to a lot of people. So are the Rangers in the hunt there? Absolutely. Is that guy worth the pursuit? Absolutely, from everything I've heard."

The reason Otani has been called the Japanese Babe Ruth is because he's both a great pitcher and a home-run hitter from the plate. But can he succeed at both in the MLB?

"No. I don't think that happens," Kurkjian said. "I think the only guy that ever truly did that was Babe Ruth. And that's the reason why statistically he's the greatest player of all time and there isn't a close second. I don't see anybody being Babe Ruth again, not with the way the game is run today, how difficult the game is to play. So I think he's going to have to choose between pitching and hitting. I think he'll choose pitching. I think that would make the most sense. But all sorts of things are up in the air with that guy."

To get Otani, would the Rangers have to offer him the chance to do both?

"I would do whatever it takes to get him in my uniform and then I would figure out what to do with him," Kurkjian said. "If your scouts say we need him more as a pitcher, he's a better pitcher, then that's the way you go. But yes, you give him the opportunity to do both.

"I wrote for Sports Illustrated 25 years ago why can't we have a two-way player? Why is it so impossible? If we do it in football once in a while, why can't we have a pitcher who DHs when he's not pitching? And I just think in the last 25 years the game has become so specialized that you can't do that. But yes, give him the option. If I were any team, I would say, 'What do you want to do over here?' And the team, of course, has got to have the final say."

Kurkjian also shared what he's seen change from Yu Darvish this season so far that has helped raise his success.

"He's been great. The batting average against is .199, that's really impressive," he said. "But what people will tell you is he's more reliant on his fastball, which I think has always been a great idea. When you throw that hard, you should throw your heater more often. And that's apparently what he's doing as opposed to tinkering with all that other stuff -- most of which is really good. Sometimes the best thing to do is just throw your fastball and see if anyone can hit it. When he's right, nobody can hit it.

"So it seems he's really made a nice adjustment here to people who were telling him, 'Let's try this.' I don't think he's ever been against something like that, but it seems like he's more cooperative on every level to trying what other people think, and he seems to be a very happy guy and happy on this team. And I think it's showing when he goes out onto the mound."
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