It's definitely you'd have to seriously consider, and a major negotiating point for a team inquiring.

Knowing the Mets, they're going to want multiple top ten prospects for Alonso, even as a rental.

That's why I was hoping we'd get off to a good start and bury Houston.

Bregman will certainly be up for bid. Not that they'll trade him to Texas, but it will flood the market with soon-to-be FA position players that will help bring down the cost.

SP, IMO, will be the measure teams use to decide if they can win in the playoffs.

I think CY will be careful making moves and avoid desperate trades to salvage a season. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. He was even pretty careful last season. Expensive rentals would be a huge no-no.

Shoot, I thought Scherzer was almost a bad deal. Just bad enough where I personally wouldn't have made the trade. I just thought is ability wasn't worth his contract or the trade pieces to get him, the only saving grace for me was the Mets pretty much paying his whole contract

Yeah, I think everyone here would agree that the Rangers need to be careful at the deadline. There's no need to give up anything if we are 10 games below .500 at the All-Star break, but if we are .500 and still within striking distance in the division and in the WC, then you'd be willing to make more moves. It's a tough exercise though, because we are likely in a four or five year window that we need to continue to make the most of.

And for the record, I am not knocking trade talk. Baseball is a talking sport and trades are going to be a hot topic when a team is under .500. I'm all for it.

I think you are kidding yourself if you think CY isn't looking to improve this team, especially with Evan Carter on the shelf for a month+ and looking like a lost puppy at the plate this season. I don't mean this with any disrespect either. Just saying that CY's job is to improve the team, and outfield is a spot to improve at the moment.

Flounder Dorfman said:

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But the only GM that does it anywhere close to how a fan would is AJ Preller, and he's awful.

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Jerry DiPoto?!

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When Josh Smith has been your best player through 2.5 months, you have to realize this might not be your year.

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OR... if your players are playing so poorly that Josh Smith is your best player and you're still at about .500... You have a real chance to win it all again*.

*If the rest gets back to where they should be.

DallasAg 94 said:

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South Platte said:

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When Josh Smith has been your best player through 2.5 months, you have to realize this might not be your year.

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OR... if your players are playing so poorly that Josh Smith is your best player and you're still at about .500... You have a real chance to win it all again*.

*If the rest gets back to where they should be.

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When you have 2 "ifs" in a 3 line post . . .

I stand pat for now for sure. The OF is set for the future and at bargain rates. I don't F with that.

You dont even know what type of team you have and what help you need until you get more guys back… or more clarity that they aren't coming back for meaningful time

I'm not saying he's giving up and Carter or even Langford for that matter. I am just pointing out that we could use someone to help this team THIS YEAR, and maybe next year, if the team is still in the hunt. Just my personal opinion, but I think we rushed Carter in a major way and that he needs to spend some time at AAA figuring his swing out, especially against lefties.

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DallasAg 94 said:

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South Platte said:

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When Josh Smith has been your best player through 2.5 months, you have to realize this might not be your year.

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OR... if when your players are playing so poorly that Josh Smith is your best player and you're still at about .500... You have a real chance to win it all again*.

*If the rest gets back to where they should be.

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When you have 2 "ifs" in a 3 line post . . .

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Better?

So, the first "if" was a given, I thought. It is actually happening, per the post before.

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I'm not saying he's giving up and Carter or even Langford for that matter. I am just pointing out that we could use someone to help this team THIS YEAR, and maybe next year, if the team is still in the hunt. Just my personal opinion, but I think we rushed Carter in a major way and that he needs to spend some time at AAA figuring his swing out, especially against lefties.

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I do not think they rushed Carter. He has had a back injury before. I can't imagine how hard it would be to swing a bat like that with a bad back. It makes a lot of sense this has been bothering him a while. Hopefully the rest is all that he needs.

Langford is starting to show signs of coming around. Getting Jung back will fix a lot of the offensive issues as he will provide protection in the lineup that, imo has been missing this season.

If the team is still in the hunt, that means the offense is clicking.

At some point this month, this lineup will be adding a better bat than anywhere you can find in the trade market with Josh Jung. And you give up nothing to get him. Think of what impact the Astros lineup would have if Tucker or Alvarez had been missing for two months and were coming back. That's the kind of impact Jung has on this lineup.

Personally, I pass on any trade that brings in an outfielder. My outfield is set. If I am bringing in anything, it is a right handed 1B with as much power as I can find. I would love to see a dude at 1B/DH hitting fifth in this lineup (I have Jung at 3). I am completely 100% all in on getting one of those. But there is no one from the starting lineup getting shipped out to make that happen. CY and Bochy place too much emphasis on locker room chemistry to send out a starter.

I said this early in the season and very much still see this playing out. I think a starting pitcher or two could be moved out for that big bat. That's our position of strength where something could get done.

Really looking forward to tonight's pitching matchup. Both Top 20 MLB pitchers in ERA among qualifiers (Lorenzen is 8 inning short of being a qualifier - probably one start away from getting there).

No Seager. Grossman in against a righty over Janko is odd.

Semien 2B
Smith SS
Heim C
Garcia RF
Lowe 1B
Langford LF
Grossman DH
Duran 3B
Taveras CF

Asian American jerseys are very cool. Wish I'd gotten one.

Blue squeezing Lorenzen and giving Webb a huge zone

Wendzel called up, Derek Hill DFA'd.

2 middle middle fastballs that AB. Swing the fkn bat Langford! WTF

Pull the ****ing trigger Langford!! Damn

Typical… guy hits solo homers and kills rangers

Webb always pitches like CY young against the Rangers.

Doesn't help that blue keeps giving him a HUGE zone

"Eventually they'll start to hit."

Or they won't.

Man. Hernandez can be so nasty. If only he could be consistent.