When is Adolis's arb hearing?

1st is the Time "Value of Money."

$30M today, is worth more than $30M 5 years from now. You'll see calculations for Ohtani about what his Present Contract Value is worth.

If you pay $20M today and $30M in 5 years, if you invest that $10M difference @ 7% for 5 years, you get about $14M... You pay $10M on the $30 and keep the other $4M. That's just interest.

Assume 3% Inflation (as opposed to the 9-15% we've seen the past 3 years) and that is another 15%.

With 7% Inflation, you're looking at 35% as it compounds... another $3.5M

Another reason I don't get it. Even though the Bobby Witt Jr. contract is a bit large in terms of money and giving him four opt outs is a few too many for me, I don't have a huge problem with it because they are going to be paying him FOR HIS PRIME. Not waiting till he's 28 then extending him for 10 years until he's 38 and his gifts that make him special at gone or diminished. The Royals also have to pay a premium because they are a non-existent baseball market.

You probably don't like the O's ownership change.

Context:

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/02/the-upcoming-baltimore-orioles-sale-is-structured-to-avoid-capital-gains-taxes/

You would be correct haha!

gigem1223 said:

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When is Adolis's arb hearing?

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Scheduled for arbitration hearing Thursday-barring resolution.

Somewhat off topic but don't have a better place for it: planning a guys weekend for the Rangers @ Brewers series this summer. Will make it to at least one, but probably not more than 2 games in the series. Anybody have any Milwaukee recs places to stay, parts of town to explore, bars/restaurants to visit, other must see stuff, anything in particular at or around the stadium that's noteworthy?

Thanks

People think the Rangers are one and done.

Let 'em. https://t.co/NbA71GF3vs

— The Prospect Times (@ProspectTimes) February 7, 2024

No rangers or diamond(answer) backs

Here is what Keith Law had to say about Rangers unheralded prospect Justin Foscue

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Justin Foscue, IF, Texas Rangers
Height: 5-11 | Weight: 205 | Bats: R | Throws: R | Seasonal age in 2024: 25

Foscue had a pretty remarkable season in Triple A last year, but it was overlooked because of some of the players around him and the fact that the Rangers were so competitive in the majors that they never needed to call him up. Foscue walked more than he struck out in Triple A, and while the automated ball-strike system (ABS) helped boost walk rates everywhere (about 17 percent in the PCL), he was one of only nine players at that level to do that and the second-youngest, after Xavier Edwards, who has big-league experience. He's flashed power but he's evolved over the past three years into an above-average hitter who might hit .300 if he's given a full shot, with real plate discipline and maybe 15-20 homers at his peak.

He's not in the top-100 because he doesn't really have a position and can't run at all, limiting his defense and his utility value. I don't love the defense anywhere, but I think with this kind of bat, he'll be playable at second base or first and maybe you can live with him at third for a short time. He has to be extremely coveted in trades right now he could step in and be someone's regular at first base right now for the minimum salary and likely be close to league average with the bat. I don't see much ceiling here, but he could be a solid regular for six or seven years, starting now

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Earlier today, I saw Evan Grant was throwing around the possibility that the rangers would look to trade Leody if they feel like Langford is ready.

Tksymm7 said:

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It's a good deal.

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If he stays healthy. He'll have trouble getting to 3000 hits if he keeps getting hurt.

He's averaged 127 games over his last 5 non-Covid seasons.

But yeah, they had to get it done.

I just like that they are going to keep their homegrown, best player in franchise history, and are going to do it with some really palatable numbers when he's going to be less useful in his late 30's. Altuve has made a boatload of money, so that helps him take less later, but I think it's a good move for both parties. He no doubt has to stay healthy, and paying him 30 a year to play 100 games isn't great, but as long as you have him in the playoffs I can't fault them too much.

Grapesoda2525 said:

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People think the Rangers are one and done.

Let 'em. https://t.co/NbA71GF3vs

— The Prospect Times (@ProspectTimes) February 7, 2024

No rangers or diamond(answer) backs

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There hasn't been back to back WS Champions since the Damn Yankees won three straight ('98, '99. '00). Still I'm not going to underestimate the Rangers again this season and even if they don't go back to back the window IMO has just opened for y'all if just a few prospects in the pipeline turn out to be solid to all-star caliber players.

jkag89 said:

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Grapesoda2525 said:

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People think the Rangers are one and done.

Let 'em. https://t.co/NbA71GF3vs

— The Prospect Times (@ProspectTimes) February 7, 2024

No rangers or diamond(answer) backs

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There hasn't been back to back WS Champions since the Damn Yankees won three straight ('98, '99. '00). Still I'm not going to underestimate the Rangers again this season and even if they don't go back to back the window IMO has just opened for y'all if just a few prospects in the pipeline turn out to be solid to all-star caliber players.

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Yeah I'd bet against us not winning it all again this year as well. I just expected to see us somewhere on the damn list. Some publications have us with a top 5 farm so I think we'll be fine going forward in terms of being competitive or not.

Rangers have not gone to an arbitration hearing in many years, but....

The Texas Rangers and Adolis García are scheduled for arbitration hearing today pic.twitter.com/CzGqBkkDwJ

— Dallas Texas TV (@DallasTexasTV) February 8, 2024

Thank god. I can stop having to skip past Facebook posts by dumbasses that think he's able to sign elsewhere.

Adolis is going to be interesting for the Rangers.

I think he is the type of guy that needs to play with a chip on his shoulder, so a little disrespecting probably helps... but he is also a guy who plays on emotion and will completely shutdown at times.

8/16-9/18
He was out 10G. During the 19G he played we went 4W-15L, .151, 4 HR, 30 SO, .205 OBP.
We went 6-4 in the 10G he missed.

Outside that in his other 129 others, the Rangers went 78-51, he went .260, 35HR, 145 SO

I think he'll have an MVP season this year, but I think the Rangers will likely have to trade him after the season.

We'll see how the hearing goes today.

Just had a popup message on phone. "reportedly" the Rangers and Garcia agree to a 2 year deal to avoid arbitration. Would be good if so.

DallasAg 94 said:

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Adolis is going to be interesting for the Rangers.

I think he is the type of guy that needs to play with a chip on his shoulder, so a little disrespecting probably helps... but he is also a guy who plays on emotion and will completely shutdown at times.

8/16-9/18
He was out 10G. During the 19G he played we went 4W-15L, .151, 4 HR, 30 SO, .205 OBP.
We went 6-4 in the 10G he missed.

Outside that in his other 129 others, the Rangers went 78-51, he went .260, 35HR, 145 SO

I think he'll have an MVP season this year, but I think the Rangers will likely have to trade him after the season.

We'll see how the hearing goes today.

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They have him pretty cheap for a few more years. I wouldn't trade him personally.

Ross Fenstermaker, Rangers Vice President/Assistant General Manager, Player Development & International Scouting, was on with Jared Sandler earlier this week. Jared asked him to name a couple of guys under the radar, so to speak, that Ross thought could break out or surprise some folks this year. He named Zak Kent and Anthony Gutierrez. He said Kent is healthy again and has his velocity back up. He thinks Gutierrez, at 18 years of age, is just the right age to have a great season. He even mentioned that he hopes we don't trade Guitterez.

Grapesoda2525 said:

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DallasAg 94 said:

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Adolis is going to be interesting for the Rangers.

I think he is the type of guy that needs to play with a chip on his shoulder, so a little disrespecting probably helps... but he is also a guy who plays on emotion and will completely shutdown at times.

8/16-9/18
He was out 10G. During the 19G he played we went 4W-15L, .151, 4 HR, 30 SO, .205 OBP.
We went 6-4 in the 10G he missed.

Outside that in his other 129 others, the Rangers went 78-51, he went .260, 35HR, 145 SO

I think he'll have an MVP season this year, but I think the Rangers will likely have to trade him after the season.

We'll see how the hearing goes today.

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They have him pretty cheap for a few more years. I wouldn't trade him personally.

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Yes, but the fact that he is relatively cheap makes him more valuable as a trade asset. If Langford comes through and succeeds at the mlb level, at some point one of Garcia or Taveras will likely get traded. May not be this year, but next off-season or the following season. But that's getting ahead of ourselves, we need to let things play out and see how it goes.

I think the Rangers were just waiting for me to finalize payment on the season-tickets. The Adolis deal happened shortly after.

Time to pass the hat around.

For better or worse, from our WS Championship team... right now we lost RP+Monty+Garver.

We sufficiently replaced the losses (hopefully) especially once our 3 60IL SPs are available.

Next year losses due after 2024 season are: Max Scherzer, Heaney, Leclerc. Eovaldi has an option.

We should be pretty solid this year and next.

So Rangers basically gave Garcia his ask for 2024, and then likely got a cheap 2025 out of him. But if the escalators are evenly split and attainable, that's another $5 MM a year for him to go out and earn?

His next arbitration was gonna be - if 2023=2024 - $12 MM?

Rangers got a steal, and Adolis got him money now. Good deal for both sides.