How will Texas Rangers’ lineup be altered by Adolis Garcia, Jonah Heim’s exit?

How will Texas Rangers’ lineup be altered by Adolis Garcia, Jonah Heim’s exit?

Here is a disclaimer for this episode. I recorded this about five minutes before the Rangers traded Marcus Simeon to the New York Mets for Brandon Nemo. I didn’t want to throw away the entirety of this episode, but this this episode does not address that at all. So, I do not want to hear you in the comments saying, “Hey, Bryce, what about Marcus Simeon? What about Brandon Nemo?” This was recorded before that. So, just bear that in mind with what I say in this episode. And now, here’s today’s show. Barely 2 years after Josh Spores, Jonah, and Adulles Garcia helped the Rangers win the first championship in franchise history, they’re all gone. You are locked on, Rangers. Your daily Texas Rangers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. You are locked onto the Texas Rangers the first and best daily Rangers podcast. I’m Bryce Patrick, a crippingly addicted Texas Rangers fan. Cover this team for 12 seasons, including all seven as the founder host of this podcast. 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Now, on Friday afternoon, this part of this seemed like the likely end for Adulus Garcia, Jonah, and Josh Spores as members of the Texas Rangers, but some of the other moves, mainly the Jacob Web uh cutting just really caught me off guard. The Rangers non-tendered Adolles Garcia, Jonah Heheim, Jacob Webb, and Josh Bores on Friday right at the deadline after apparently since the trade deadline trying to trade off Adulus Garcia. And this is frustrating not only for the fact that the Rangers, this is a sign that the Rangers are probably going to just completely gut the payroll. Not not, you know, Raisian level, not you know, Pittsburgh Pirates level, but this is going to get ugly. And this this may not be the last cost cutting moves, but mainly because the guys who helped the Rangers get to the World Series, their first ever and only franchise World Series title are gone. Three guys that really played integral parts in that. Jonah was such a stalwart back there, controlling the pitching game, controlling the running game, occasionally providing some offense, being an all-star, a goal glover in that season. Josh Bors throwing the final pitch to win the first ever championship in Texas Rangers franchise history and the guy that he threw it to. Both those guys being gone on the same day that the Rangers also lose ALCS MVP World Series home walk-off home run hitting Adulus Garcia. All of those guys gone on the same day is just a huge blow to the heartstrings. I talked a little bit about it on Friday’s show, but it just bears repeating that these guys meant something to all of us Rangers fans. And unless you just hopped on the Rangers bandwagon in 2024, then maybe these guys didn’t mean as much to you. If if you were that kind of a person and you just hopped on for the bad years, then um I have a lot of respect for your commitment to the fandom because these last two years have not been fun. But that World Series run was just something so incredibly special. And I think a big problem with sports and sports fandom right now is the GMification of every single sports fan. The casual fan is being phased out. And I know I’m I’m part of the problem of having a a show every single day that talks more analytically, more, you know, detached emotionally about baseball. I try and still give it some heart. And I I try and remind myself every single episode at the very end to say, “Hey, don’t forget to enjoy baseball.” That that’s a message to myself mostly. and and also those who are listening as well. But I think the gammification of every fan, you know, you grow up wanting to be a player and at a certain point you think, oh, uh, I’m 5’9 and my parents are not, you know, renowned athletes, they do not have super athletic jeans, and unless I have the strongest work ethic of anybody ever, and some things really start to break my way, I’m probably not making it to the big leagues. But then you start to think, well, I could be a front office person. Maybe I could be a scout. maybe I could, you know, control a team that way. And and so people’s mindsets, myself included, can sometimes focus more towards the GM kind of a view of a baseball team of caring more about, oh, how these salaries match up and oh, what kind of a trade should they make and oh, this that and the other and just the casual that boy nice baseball sports watcher has been, you know, left behind a little bit in some senses. But for the game to exist, we need the occasional that boy nice watcher of a guy who watches the doles Garcia and when he hits those monster home runs, he’s not thinking about his war. He’s not thinking about his ex babb. He’s not thinking about his wobba z whatever stat that has been invented to kind of try and explain the game away and make it more, you know, numbers focused. You don’t need numbers to watch that Adollus Garcia walk-off home run and say, “Oh, that guy’s awesome.” Having that guy on my team would be freaking sweet. Watching Josh Bors go nuclear for a month, having the best month of his freaking life in relief after a full season of complete complete ups and downs in 2023. heck a career of so many ups and downs and mostly downs mostly injuries and ineffectiveness for Josh Bors but for one month for one month he was absolutely untouchable same for for Jose L clerk same for you know one year of Jonahheim being absolutely freaking awesome same for one year of Leodyis being absolutely freaking awesome same for one year of Travis Janowski being absolutely freaking awesome all those guys coming together to have incredible seasons all at the right time just reminds you of how much of a crapshoot baseball is and how special it is to have those kinds of runs from guys that you know maybe aren’t generational talents. Maybe Joles Garcia, it was never going to be a generational top, but this this is a multi-time all-star. This is a guy who was fun. This is a guy who brought life and joy and excitement and exuberance to a team that was mostly filled with some baseball robots. Some effective mo wellrogrammed baseball robots, but baseball robots nonetheless. Adulles Garcia brought that soul and life and spark and fire and joy and fu attitude that the Rangers needed to get over the Houston Astros in the ALCS if not for Garcia and not only what he did on the field which was absolutely incredible. One of the greatest postseason runs any player will ever have in the history of sport. That is what we watched Garcia do in 2023. And even though he has not been that kind of a player for the last two seasons, even though he was awful in 2024, both offensively and defensively, and this year offensively was was not good defensively had a resurgence, but still offensively was not what the Rangers needed him to be. It it still does not take away from what he brought this team for the many seasons that he has been here for for the the many all-star seasons that he’s had for that, you know, truly exceptional 2023 season and just put it all together. And nothing will take that away from Garcia, but it will take something away from this Texas Rangers squad because he is not here anymore. Now, what do the Rangers do? What is this a sign of? This is the Rangers saving a decent chunk of money. But I don’t want myself and I I don’t want others who love the sport to lose that love of these individual players because the the players are what makes the game. It’s not the the rich guys at the top who keep on making money. Whenever a guy gets cut, a guy who, you know, meant a lot to the franchise, I hope that people’s reactions isn’t just, oh cool, the my ownership group saved 10 million bucks or whatever. It’s, wow, that guy’s not going to be on my team anymore. I don’t get to watch that guy go hard in the paint for my team and have some of those awesome moments anymore. That sucks. That sucks that we don’t have that guy to go watch and experience joy when Cresie is out there, you know, bat flipping and just absolutely obliterating home runs or making some of these diving catches or nailing a guy at home plate when it looked like there was no way that anybody with a normal human arm out there in right field could nail a runner running home from second base. But Garcia could and he did frequently and it was fun and it was joyful. It was exciting and it sucks that we are not going to get to see that again. But now that these guys are no longer members of the Texas Rangers, what does it mean? Could the Rangers have handled this a little bit differently? I think they could have and should have. Know about how they could have and more right after this. This show is brought to you by FanDuel. 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Shout out to every lock on Ranger, your first listen every single day. On tomorrow, I’ll be back and talking a little bit more in depth about Alejandra Ozuna, whether he’s ready to be an everyday right fielder or whether the Rangers need to go get some help. And uh well, we’ll look into a little bit of that, but the Rangers, this is a surefire sign that the payroll is going to come down. If you’ve been reading anything that Evan Grant, the Dallas Morning News has been writing this off seasonason, it has been all ta tailored and geared towards saying the Rangers are going to cut a lot of money this off season. how much we’ll end up seeing, but it seems like it could be some pretty austere payroll cuts. And same with the folks at DLS that cover the Rangers, same with MLB.com, Kennedy Landry has been saying all that. All the people who are credentialed and plugged in and who know what’s going on have been saying that and this is a pretty clear indicator of that. And I think the thing that’s most frustrating to me about Adulus Garcia just straight up being DFAD is that there was a player about his age, about his value, making about his money that just got traded for a pretty significant return. Now, maybe it’s just a unique situation and the Baltimore Orioles were just super obsessed with having another random indistinguishable white guy in the outfield in their lineup in Taylor Ward and they were just ready to get rid of Grayson Rodriguez. Taylor Ward is about the same age as Doles Garcia, one year younger. He plays the same position, a corner outfield, mostly left field as opposed to Doles Garcia playing right field. Offensively, he’s been a better player than Adulus for the last couple years, but Adulus’ 2023 season completely blows out of the water anything that we have seen from Taylor Ward. The defensive value that Adulus Garcia brings is also significantly better. They both had a 2.7 baseball reference war. Adulles is was projected to make about a million dollars more in arbitration, but a very similar type of a player. And the Angels trade him away to the Orioles for Grayson Rodriguez, a young, previously very high upside starting pitcher who’s got four seasons of control left. Did just miss the entirety of this season with some injuries. But that that is a very good trade, a very good return for a 2.7 baseball reference war player of basically the same age, position, and monetary value in terms of their contract that it seems like the fact that the Rangers were screaming so loudly to the heavens of, “Hey everybody, we’re so poor. We’re so poor. We got to remind you that we’re poor. We definitely can’t afford to keep Adulus Garcia.” And by screaming that to the world, all the other 29 organizations in Major League Baseball thought, “Okay, well, why are you calling us trying to trade him? If you’re so poor and you’re just going to cut him anyway, why would we give up a prospect? Why would we give up a young player? Why would we give up any asset to go get it Garcia and then pay him the $12 million where it seems like you’re pretty clearly screaming, hey, we’re just going to cut bait with this guy?” So, um, also, could someone give us a prospect for him, but we’re also just going to cut bait with him? if they had been less vocal in screaming to the high heavens that they are the brokeest boys to ever live, which they’re not. I’ve talked about that ad nauseium this offseason that they are very much not a poverty franchise that can’t afford $12 million on an every player. They can. They very much can. That’s also not that expensive for an outfielder. I mean, there are a lot more a lot more outfielders making more money than it Garcia would be next season if he just signed for $12 million. These are some of the the outfielders that are making more money than Garcia next year. Tioscar Hernandez about $12 million. That that’s comparable. That is a comparable player. Also, Tonnie Edmond $124 million. Jorge Cer making more than that, $13 million. He also doesn’t even play the outfield. Lis Guriel Jr. making $13 million. Jurgson Proofar $15 million. Anthony Santine there $16.5 million. Same as Tyler O’Neal and Andrew Benhendy. All those guys significantly worse than Garcia, all of them making, you know, 25% more. Masataki Yoshida making $18 million. He’s significantly worse than Ellis Garcia. Luis Robert Jr. is going to make $20 million next year. Same as Nick Cast. Both of them significantly worse players than Adulus Garcia. Do you see where I’m going with this? This is not a completely Also, Chris Bryant is making $26 million next year to play or not play for the Colorado Rockies. Do you see how $12 million is not that completely unreasonable to ask for a guy who is not an all-star anymore? Is not the ALCS MVP version of Adolles Garcia. He’s not the 2023 postseason at Garcia, but he is still a valuable player who adds value to your team. And $12 million is not some crazy overage expenditure that the Rangers couldn’t possibly afford. They could afford it. They just did not want to. And all these signs are pointing towards the Rangers not spending this off season. They’ve got some things that they need to address in the offense, which was awful last year. And looks like it’s going to get somehow even worse because if you take out Adulles Garcia and overall his OPS was not particularly effective, but the guy was great at driving in runs. He was great at hitting home runs. He still even hit his worst career year last year. In 135 games, he had 19 bombs and 75 RBI’s. That’s not horrible. That’s not bottom 10 in offensive overall player like I have heard him being described other places. That is not who Adel Garcia is. Do not let people tell you that’s who Garcia is. He’s not the 2023 version of himself, but he’s not this bottom feeding garbage player. He is not anywhere near the offensive, you know, black hole that Jonah truly was this season. He had been horrible offensively for the last two seasons. And so that one makes more sense. It makes more financial sense for the Raiders to say, “Okay, $6 million on a catcher whose defensive value is not elite and offensive value is non-existent.” That makes more sense. That you can kind of stomach a little bit more easily. but also the Rangers will have to go sign a backup catcher and those can cost anywhere between $5 to $10 million depending on the backup catcher that you’re wanting to go get. So again, they might not even be saving money there overall. They might be getting better in general by getting a better backup catcher because it seems pretty clear-cut that Kyle Hagashi is going to be the primary catcher next season. But still, there’s nobody else on this roster really that’s going to, you know, come anywhere close to the approximation of what they’re doing. And and not to mention just the the sheer fact that so many of these guys from the World Series are gone. This is a completely different team than the one that rolled into that 2023 World Series. Look at the guys that were on that that roster for the World Series. The Rangers have two pitchers still on their roster. two of the 13 that went into there and one of them is not going to pitch at all this year. It’s Cody Bradford. The other one is Nathan Evaldi, Ris Chapman gone. Dane Dunning gone. John Gray gone. Andrew Heeney, L Clerk, Montgomery, Perez, Spores, Sherzer, Smith, Stratton, all of them gone. And it’s not like the Rangers have that many more position players that are still there. I mean, the starting lineup, you had Evan Carter, he’s still here. Josh Young’s still here. Vanalo Lo is gone. Marcus Simeon is still here. Josh Smith was on the roster. Cory Seager is still here. But other than that, I mean, Adoleis is gone, Garver’s gone, Robbie Gman’s gone, Hedges is gone, is gone. Jenowski is out of playing Major League Baseball. He’s back with the organization as a first base coach. But I mean, Louis is also gone. I mean, more than a third of the starting lineup of that, actually, I think it’s about more than half now at this point of the starting lineup of game one of the World Series is out the door. they’re gonzo. That is kind of terrifying that how much things can change. Now, part of that has changed for the better. The Rangers took some swings on some of these free agent players like Jock Peterson, like Jake Burgerer. I mean, or not Burger, but Kyle Hagashi, but it kind of worked out with Higgy more towards the second half. And the first half was also really rough, but it did not work out with Jacqu Peterson, who seemed like such a safe bet to improve this team. But the Rangers have not spent a whole lot the last couple of offseasons. They they had their big big spending spree in 2021, which again, that was a big spending spree of spending half a billion dollars on a middle infield, but that was to get the Rangers payroll back anywhere near the range that it should have already been before that year. The Rangers were bottom 10 in payroll. Excuse me, they were 20th. though they were 11th the 11th lowest payroll in the entirety of Major League Baseball as a major a major market. This is not some tiny run-of-the-mill market. This is a team that can afford to spend, but they’re probably not going to. I mean, Phil Mon has already left the Rangers. He has already gone and signed a a two-year with a third option for a thirdyear deal with the Cubs. That was one of the Rangers top priorities was was bringing back Phil Maton. was mostly really good this season. He was mostly really good for the Rangers this season and the Rangers wanted him back and Phil Mton wanted to be back, but the Rangers have already lost out on him. We don’t know exactly what the price point was for Phil Mton signing. Eventually, we will find that out that probably was projected to be around $7 million and for a guy who’s not going to be your closer, that’s maybe more than the Rangers could afford even though they wanted to bring him back. And Rice Glacius, who was pretty terrible in the first half last year, but down the stretch was was pretty excellent with the Braves. He signed a one-year $16 million deal. And that is maybe the fourth or fifth best closer on the market. Signed a $16 million deal. Actually, I think it was $16.5 million for one year. The Rangers are not going and spending that level on one reliever. Heck, they may not spend $16 million on the entirety of this bullpen. And this is a sign that things are not looking good for the Rangers and what they’re going to do this off season. And the biggest indicator of that is what they did with Jacob Web. Talk about that and more right after this. This show is brought to you by Game Time. The NFL season’s back and honestly, there’s nothing better than being in the stadium surrounded by fans cheering on your team. But let’s be honest, getting tickets can be a hassle. Between cues, login screens, and prices jumping at checkout, it’s frustrating. That’s why I use Game Time. It’s the app that gives the advantage back to fans. Game Time is fast, it’s easy, and is backed by the Game Time guarantee. You always get 100% authentic tickets delivered on time and at the best price. Plus, all fees are included, so the price you see is the price you pay. Game time has been the best way I found to get tickets to any kind of event I’m looking to go to. Whether it was a concert, I just went to a concert a couple weeks ago. 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So, I’m really hoping that no news breaks during the week. uh because I will be in Georgia with my fiance and her family celebrating Thanksgiving and I uh probably will not be able to record. So I’m not thinking anything big is coming down the pipe this week. That that news about Adolles Garcia and Jonah and now unexpectedly Jacob Webb I’m thinking that’s the only news we’re going to have for some time. Winter meetings are not happening until after I get back. So hopefully we won’t have any big catastrophic news or or or good big good news happening while I’m away. If so, we’ll we’ll figure out what’s happening there. But the move that shocked me the most, it did not completely shock me that the Rangers just straight up DFA at Garcia. It frustrated me. I still think it’s not the right move. I still don’t think it’s the best allocation of resources. I don’t think the Rangers are going to backfill that with any kind of talent that is even comparable to what Garcia did last year. And that is really saying something because Garcia did not produce anywhere near what the Rangers were expecting last year. But the one that really made me turn my head and say, “Oh, this is going to get ugly this offseason. This is going to get, you know, massive, massive pay cuts. Are the Rangers going to sign any free agents to multi-year deals?” I’m leaning towards no. If the Rangers said, “You know what, Jacob Webb, $2 million is too much for a pretty decent reliever, not the best reliever in baseball, but the min league minimum any player can make is $800,000. If you’re making $2 million, that is $1.2 million over the league minimum. Over the very cheapest you could possibly pay anybody. And $2 million for a pretty fine to solid reliever is more than fine. It is more than reasonable. It is actually a pretty decent deal if you sign a reliever to $2 million and he ends up being fine. Now, Jacob Webb is not going to be the Rangers closer next year. He is not going to be their setup man. He would not have been their seventh inning guy, maybe even that. But for a guy with a 3.0 RA in 55 games, 66 innings, about a strikeout, a little bit less than a strikeout per inning. But you look at what he did in the second half. I mean the second minute half he was truly awesome. I mean 16 games in that second half a little bit over 22 innings more than a strikeout per inning and a 159 erra a59 RA in half a season. You look at his baseball page and pretty much everything is is towards the red. The only thing in the blue is he wasn’t great at getting a ground ball rate. He didn’t have very good fast ball velocity at 93 and a half miles per hour. It’s in the bottom third of baseball, but he was still found a way to be very effective. The average exit velocity in the top 5% of baseball. The cha chase and whiff rate, both those in the top oneird of baseball. Barrel rate, hard hit rate, walk rate, all all of those, the top one-third of baseball with the barrel rate and hard hit rate and expected batting average, expected expected RA, all those in the top 20% of baseball. That is a good reliever. Now, I don’t know if if those numbers would necessarily repeat next year, but especially when you have a a really high chase rate and a really high whiff rate, the strikeout rate being a little bit lower makes you think, you know, there’s a little bit of luck that could have gone the other way with some of those strikeouts. And this is a guy who provided you 66 innings of a 3.0 RA, but he was significantly better than league average, a 122 RA plus. is his erra was 22% better than league average and $2 million was too much for the Rangers to stomach for Jacob Webb. That is alarming. That is surprising. That is upsetting. Now, I think the Rangers could go and rebuild and get It’s not me saying that Jacob Webb is the greatest reliever ever and that the Rangers made a horrible mistake by not bringing him back. That’s not what I’m saying at all. But if a guy that’s fine, that’s reasonably costefficient, that’s, you know, putting up decent numbers with you, you can bring him back for $2 million, just not that much over the league minimum, the very absolute bottom tier minimum you could pay any player. Saving $1.2 million to lose a decent reliever is a sign that this team is really looking to massively gut the payroll. why I don’t think that these are the only cost cutting moves the Rangers are going to make. Now, Josh Bor’s move, he’s also not saving all that much money. Projected to make about $1.1 million after arbitration this year. It’s about what he made this year. It’s like 300k more than the league minimum. With Spores, he missed the entirety of the season after having shoulder surgery after the 2024 season where he also didn’t pitch all that much that year. Really could not find his velocity. And that’s more about opening up a 40-man roster spot for Josh Bors. I get that you’re not saving that much money. He’ll be probably resigned to some kind of a, you know, minor league deal, maybe with a major league invite to camp, but when he was topping out around, you know, 93, I don’t think he even hit 95 last year was averaging around 91 miles an hour with his forcing fast ball as opposed to the 96 97 that he was averaging when he was at his peak in 2023. It’s more understandable the Raiders would just go ahead go ahead and say, “Hey, yeah, we’re going to go ahead and not do this anymore.” But just the amount of cost cutting and penny pinching to this degree makes me think, how could this how could this be the last move? If they’re going to cut, you know, $1.2 million on a reliever here, why wouldn’t they go and shop, you know, the likes of Marcus Simeon or or Cory Seager in a deal where the Rangers would not get any value back? The reason I don’t think they trade Corey Seager is because Chris Young is smarter than that. Chris Young knows this fan base. He knows this city. He grew up here. He grew up and played a lot of time as a member of the Texas Rangers. And he could very easily tell his billionaire owner, “Hey, you see what’s happening with Mavs fans with the Luca trade? Do you see how pissed they got? Do you see how they are still only just now after Nico was fired because they would not shut up about how much they hated Nico for trading away Luca Donuch for pennies to basically just save the billionaire owners money and because Nico had whatever other reasons that did not make sense and will never make sense. But if you trade away Corey Seager, who brought this team its first ever championship, less than three years after he did that, and while he is still very, very good, and he is making a lot of money, so when guys are making a lot of money, no matter how good they are, you’re almost never going to get the same kind of value that you should get for a player of that caliber in a trade. It would mostly be a costcutting deal. the same with if the Rangers traded away Jacob Grom. Even though Jacob Deg Grom was healthy last year, he finished eighth in Sai Young voting. I think he’s gonna be back to being basically just Jacob Deg Grom next year. But you’re not going to get any kind of the value that you should get for a guy of that caliber because he’s making so much money. And teams are like, well, part of us assuming this risk is taking on all this money. So why we give you a whole bunch of prospects to take on all this money? the the the benefit you get is by not having to spend this money, which is not a benefit to a team building at all. Unless you are an owner and it is your pocketbook that the checks are coming out of unless you are Ray Davis or one of the others Rangers minority owners, then that should not affect you. You should not be caring this much about how expensive certain players are. But that’s where we are because these owners have convinced us that, oh yeah, we need to care about how much a certain player is making and, you know, raise a big stink if that guy stinks. It it should not be tied to as much. I I feel like a lot of times get too caught up with, oh, this player is making this amount of money and they’re not great, so we should run them out of town. Or it should just be, oh, this player is not playing great, who cares how much money he’s making. Bench him for someone who is better. I feel like a lot of that has also gotten caught up in the gemification of being a sports fan of just, oh, I’ve got to think about this on a budget standpoint as opposed to, oh, let me just care about actually how my team is doing and focus it my energy that way. It is just a very frustrating sign that is pointing to the Rangers just cutting costs in major major ways. Before this these moves, I thought there’s no way in heck they trade Cory Seager. Now, I still think there’s maybe a 1 to 3% chance that they actually do it. I think there’s maybe more of a likelihood that they trade Jacob Grom, but I Jacob Grom has a full no trade clause, whereas Cory Seager only has a partial no trade clause. That also throws a wrench into how difficult it would be to trade away one or both of those players. It it is just not a fun situation. And at the end of the day, we’re not going to get to see Adulus Garcia in a Rangers uniform any anymore. And that above all else really just bums me out. That’s going to do it for today’s show. Thank you all so much for listening and subscribing. And until next time, don’t forget to enjoy baseball.

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