So I'll start. - Luis Ortiz and Don Wakamatsu are the first two human sacrifices.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32344783/texas-rangers-hitting-coach-luis-ortiz-bench-coach-don-wakamatsu-102-loss-season

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The Texas Rangers have dismissed hitting coach Luis Ortiz and bench coach Don Wakamatsu after a 102-loss season.

Two days after the season ended with the Rangers being shut out for a majors-high 15th time, the team said Tuesday that Ortiz and Wakamatsu would not return to manager Chris Woodward's staff in 2022.

The status of assistant hitting coach Callix Crabbe and Alex Burg, the team's coordinator of run production, will be determined by the new hitting coach. Crabbe and Burg were given permission to seek other employment opportunities.

Ortiz spent three seasons with Texas, which used a club-record 26 rookies and was 29th in the majors this year with a .232 team batting average after matching a Rangers-low .217 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. They scored an AL-low 625 runs, their fewest in a full 162-game season since 1994.

Wakamatsu, the former Seattle manager and bench coach for Kansas City when the Royals won the 2015 World Series, finished the fourth season of his second stint with the Rangers while working with each of the team's last four managers. He was also on the staff from 2003-06.

The rest of Woodward's staff is expected to return in 2022: co-pitching coaches Doug Mathis and Brendan Sagara, third base coach Tony Beasley, first base coach/field coordinator Corey Ragsdale, catching coach Bobby Wilson, and run prevention coordinator Brett Hayes. But some of their specific roles and responsibilities could change before next season.

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Rangers prospects playing Arizona Fall League: Justin Foscue, 2B (No. 4/MLB No. 83); Sam Huff, C/1B (No. 5/MLB No. 91); Ezequiel Duran, 2B/SS (No. 7); Owen White, RHP (No. 29); Tim Brennan, RHP; Eudrys Manon, RHP; Spencer Mraz, RHP

powerbelly said:

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Another year without Rangers on YouTube tv according to reports today. So at least I can't watch bad baseball.

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Yes but supposedly the Bally Sports app is gonna be available.

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powerbelly said:

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Another year without Rangers on YouTube tv according to reports today. So at least I can't watch bad baseball.

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Yes but supposedly the Bally Sports app is gonna be available.

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Yeah I'm out of state so haven't been able to really watch the last couple of years. Do we have any shot of being .500+ next year??

I haven't read much from this author previously, but here is a pretty good off-season writeup on the Rangers and their willingness to spend and the potential free agent SS's that are available.

https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/can_the_rangers_really_land_a_big_name_shortstop_in_free_agency/s1_16757_36131237?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email&mb_edition=20211014&mb_loc=right_h

We're going to suck again, and be unwatchable.
New stadium is nice in person though.

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I haven't read much from this author previously, but here is a pretty good off-season writeup on the Rangers and their willingness to spend and the potential free agent SS's that are available.

https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/can_the_rangers_really_land_a_big_name_shortstop_in_free_agency/s1_16757_36131237?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email&mb_edition=20211014&mb_loc=right_h

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You could have taken the following article from Dec 6, 2019 ...refreshed the date... and saved all the editorial time.

Still don't have a 3B. Still don't have SP.

Daniels, Rangers gearing up for major additions

DallasAg 94 said:

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KT 90 said:

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I haven't read much from this author previously, but here is a pretty good off-season writeup on the Rangers and their willingness to spend and the potential free agent SS's that are available.

https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/can_the_rangers_really_land_a_big_name_shortstop_in_free_agency/s1_16757_36131237?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email&mb_edition=20211014&mb_loc=right_h

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You could have taken the following article from Dec 6, 2019 ...refreshed the date... and saved all the editorial time.

Still don't have a 3B. Still don't have SP.

Daniels, Rangers gearing up for major additions

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Yeah, but I thought this author was at least realistic through with comments questioning the Rangers commitment to winning here lately, such as:

"But is it realistic that the Rangers could land one of these five guys? Or is it just a pipe dream? After all, this team did just lose 102 games."

There were other comments he threw in, but he didn't seem to take the recent Ranger talk of being spenders as a sure thing.

Just move the franchise to Tennessee already. Utter filth from top to bottom.

Levi is right where he says the Rangers managed to trip over a low bar here.

Just hoping we get to see good baseball next year. This year was such a beating. May be a lifetime low of games watched for me.

AgBQ-00 said:

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Just hoping we get to see good baseball next year. This year was such a beating. May be a lifetime low of games watched for me.

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Bally made that choice for me and it looks like they are going to do it again.

I feel pretty confident this team will be much better in 2022

Mr Gigem said:

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I feel pretty confident this team will be much better in 2022

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That's a pretty low bar. 60-102. You would like to think it wouldn't take much.

Something to think about... Signing any of these players:

Definite QO:

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• Carlos Correa, Freddie Freeman, Clayton Kershaw, Robbie Ray, Carlos Rodn, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Trevor Story

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• Michael Conforto, Jon Gray, Yusei Kikuchi, Eduardo Rodrguez, Noah Syndergaard, Chris Taylor, Justin Verlander

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Rangers would lose their 2nd and 5th highest picks if they sign 1. They'd lose their 3rd and 6th Rounders.

So, they are stuck.

If the Rangers sign Story, Kershaw, and/or Noah... let's say they sign 2 of those... they'd lose their #2, #3, #5, and #6 picks.

For what?! a .500 season?!

I think the Rangers will add incremental mid-tier talent. Players that will improve the lineup, but nothing WOW.

Also, I think the Dodgers have given reason why JD doesn't like going after big money FA SPs. Bauer, Kershaw, and Price ($16M of his $32M was paid by Dodgers) represent almost $90M in SP that didn't pitch in this post-season.

I'm making the bold prediction the Mets don't make a QO to Syndergaard. Their payroll is sky high already and you gonna promise a guy who threw one inning this year $18.9 million in 2021?

Conforto, Yes. Syndergaard? Not when your payroll is already north of $150 MM.

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I'm making the bold prediction the Mets don't make a QO to Syndergaard. Their payroll is sky high already and you gonna promise a guy who threw one inning this year $18.9 million in 2021?

Conforto, Yes. Syndergaard? Not when your payroll is already north of $150 MM.

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It's a gamble.

Would he, at 29, accept a QO of $18.9M?
Will someone sign Syndergaard for $50M+

He'll likely want at least 3 years getting him to 32-33. That's $17M per for a 3yr.

Mets get a pick between 1st Rd and Competitive Balance. Is it worth risking $18.9M to get a better than #2 pick?!

It's a tough call. If the Mets think they can compete next year, maybe it's worth it. But can they?

Guess that's why these baseball execs make such good $

This feels slanderous

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/naacp-calls-athletes-sign-texas-teams-voting-abortion/story?id=80827394&cid=social_twitter_abcn

if they'll let some political crap keep them from playing in Texas while not paying state income tax and being in the best state/country ever, then they're probably a headache not worth putting up with anyway.

As if the black players from the Caribbean give a *****..

Bob Melvin to San Diego. Good for us.