This is a pretty embarrassing cheap-out lineup to open a 50% taxpayer funded billion dollar stadium with. There aren't just holes everywhere, they are at positions that are historically key to generating offense. The corners of the IF, DH, etc
Front office made no effort to upgrade the lineup in the offseason. It's why I was secretly hoping the season would be canceled.Bingo Bango Bongo said:
This is a pretty embarrassing cheap-out lineup to open a 50% taxpayer funded billion dollar stadium with. There aren't just holes everywhere, they are at positions that are historically key to generating offense. The corners of the IF, DH, etc
In reality, The rangers should have been going hard after both moustakas and castellanos.Bingo Bango Bongo said:
There were a number of significant lineup upgrades available in the $15-20 million range. If you dont want to go 7 years and $35mill/yr for Rendon, I get it. But there were some really good players at need positions (like 3rd) that signed 4 year, $16mill/yr deals out there. That should have been a no brainer.
The friggin Reds signed TWO guys that both should/could have been options here (Moustakas and Castellanos). You're telling me the Reds can sign BOTH while you can't nut up enough to land one? GTFO
Schall 02 said:
I like our pitching. I like Chris Woodward. Defense = meh. Offense? Meh x 2.
Two out of four = just another middling Rangers team I'm afraid. I hope I'm wrong.
His whole body of work? Solid.wbt5845 said:
My point is people point at the bad moves and forget about the good ones. Let's just be honest about his while body of work.
Bingo Bango Bongo said:
I think JD has been pretty good with trades. I think he's been absolutely terrible at the draft. I think he was good with FA until this recent stretch of being extremely frugal, which may be more ownership than him.
Several people including myself have chalked up the fielder fiasco as bad luck.Proposition Joe said:
Now to be fair on the last 2-3 years there's simply not much the front office could do -- they were battling a franchise that did a historical multi-year tankjob that no one had ever seen and therefore would be stacked in such a way that realistically anyone outside the Top 1-5 payrolls couldn't compete... So I'm not so upset about our results during that timeframe, but if we weren't going to compete then we should have been stocking up young talent... but our 2021-2024 talent pipeline doesn't exactly blow you away.
Gallo is the only recent position player success story the organization can point too. I'm talking home grown guys.PWestAg18 said:
You can dissect a lot of things about JD, but I feel the additions of Napoli and Beltre have been conveniently left off the list of grievances. We had 5 post season appearances in the 2010s, the good seasons highlighted by mid season trades, and the bad seasons set up by poor offseason work. You win some and lose some in that regard and I'm not going to chastise JD about the losses in there.
What WILL be his downfall is the complete lack of prospects groomed and brought up by the Rangers system during his time. They're going to have to make an impact by 2022-2023, and if they don't I think JD is gone. I also feel Gallo is going to make a lot of fans angry at JD if he keeps going the way he's going. I don't know how much more I can take of the Rangers media team hyping up a guy who has proven to be a Dollar General knock off of Giancarlo Stanton. He's got room to turn it around, but by god man just find away to get a hit with men on base.