Texas Rangers looking to trade Adolis Garcia, Jonah Heim: did Taylor Ward trade set the market?

Texas Rangers looking to trade Adolis Garcia, Jonah Heim: did Taylor Ward trade set the market?

The Rangers are looking to trade both Jonahheim and Adulus Garcia, but where would they go and what would they bring back? Talk about all that and more on this episode of Locked On Rangers. Let’s get into it. You are Locked On Rangers, your daily Texas Rangers podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. You are locked onto the Texas Rangers, the first and best daily Rangers podcast. I’m Bryce Patrick, a crimly addicted Texas Rangers fan, cover this team for 12 seasons, including all seven as the founder and host of this podcast. Thank you all so much for making locked on Ranger your first listen every single day. If you not already, you can follow me on Twitter, Brycep. You can follow the show at locked Rangers. Hit subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and on YouTube, where the best way you can help grow the show is to comment nearly any single thing below. Now on today’s show, we are talking about the Rangers officially unofficially listing Adobe Garcia and Jonahim on the trade block. What kind of return would they get and where do they stack up against other trade targets for teams looking for some bats? Before we get into all of that, today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Download the FanDuel app today. Now, the Rangers, according to Jeff Pastton of ESPN, are looking to shop two starters from the World Series Championship. Adulus Garcia, the 2023 ALS, ALCS MVP, and Jonah Heim, an all-star back in 2023 and since then has not been particularly great. But what does that mean for this Texas Rangers squad? Well, it means they’re going to be looking for probably another platoon bat to start out there in right field. Alejandra Ozuna is almost assuredly going to be the Rangers primary, I guess, against right-handed pitching right fielder. And then the Rangers will be looking for some kind of secondary catcher. I don’t think the guys who they have on the roster are necessarily going to be uh those options there at backup catcher. Willie Macyver is on the 40man roster, a recent snee. I I don’t I don’t see that as a viable backup catcher option to Kyle Hagashi. But what what does the market even look like? Well, the market started to get set earlier today, yesterday. It has been very very quickly that Taylor Ward has been traded very recently. Taylor Ward has been traded to the Baltimore Orioles for right-handed pitcher Grayson Rodriguez. Taylor Ward has been with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for his entire career. And Grayson Rodriguez, a a former top prospect, a guy who had a lot of hype around him and a lot of upside was thought of Grayson Rodriguez being the next, you know, homegrown ace of the Baltimore Orioles. him being, you know, pretty solid in 2024 and and really good down the stretch in 2023 was was part of the reason, I think, why Baltimore was comfortable letting Corbin Burns walk in free agency after 2024. And then this year, there were abject disasters. Grayson Rodriguez missed all of 2025 with some elbow issues, dealt with elbow surgery, and missed the entirety of the season. in 2024 and he had 20 starts there, an erra below four, 116, twothirds innings, 10 strikeouts per nine, nine and a half Ks per nine in the year before that. Down the stretch, he was one of the better pitchers in baseball, but in that in that ALDS, he got absolutely lit up by the Rangers in 2023. He’s still just heading into his age 26 season. He’s still very, very young. He’s not going to be he’s not going to be a a free agent for quite some time. I believe it’s 2029 that it’s going to be before we see Grayson Rodriguez hit the free agent market. It seems like a good pickup for the Angels who give away Taylor Ward who feels like he’s been on the trading block for forever. Coming off of a careerhigh 36 home run season, Taylor Ward is a 2.7 baseball reference war which is exactly the same baseball reference war as Adulus Garcia. Both of them have one year left on their contract. Ward is a year younger than Adulus. think more defensive value with Adulus and less more offensive value with Taylor Ward. Projected to make around 11.2 mil in arbitration this year. His second somehow not his final arbitration season. He has been in the big leagues for parts of now eight seasons and still has one more ARB year left according to Spotre which I don’t think is accurate. I don’t know how he has any more arbitration years left because uh he’s played 40 games in 2018, 20 in 2019, 34 in 2020, and still did not acrew a full year of service time to that point, but he still has one more year under contract and headed 792 OPS last season, 116 OPS plus. just a a pretty solid hitter. A pretty solid hitter to add to a Baltimore Oil squad that uh did not have a good offense last year. Actually had a a pretty awful offense outside of Gunnar Henderson and Raone Lauraniano for the first half of that season. The offense was was pretty bad. Ryan O’Harn was pretty solid, but they traded him away at mid-season. Same with Raone Lauraniano. Both of them to the Padres’s. Tyler O’Neal was their big signing in the offseason. He was awful. Colton Cowser missed about half the season. He was just kind of fine. Jackson Holiday was fine, 21 years old, but still just fine. Kobe Mayo was not particularly great. Eli Rushman had an awful year. I mean, they really were in desperate need of some offense of some outfield bats because Dylan Carlson played more than half the season for them and he had a 73 OPS plus. He was bad. He was very bad. and so were the Baltimore Oils again in 2025 after having the brightest future ever according to John Smoltz in 2023. But that kind of sets this market up for what they’re going to get. I mean, Grayson Rodriguez is coming off a year where he missed the entire season and wasn’t, you know, outstanding before that, but still a very solid pitcher with, I believe, at least three years of club control. Still, I do not believe has hit arbitration. Maybe he has another pre-arbitration year. Maybe this is his first year of arbitration, but still that is a solid return for one year of a guy who has been, you know, about a 2 and 1/2ish win player for his career. I mean, he had three and a half win season back in 2022, 1.7 win season 2023, two and a halfish wins the last couple years. He’s averaged two and a half wins the last couple years. Been about 25 30 home runs the last few years of his career. So, a solid solid hitter, but that seems like a very similar return to what the Rangers maybe should expect. But this is not the only hitter on the free agent mark on the trade block by any means. This is the only player on the trade block who has an ALCS MVP, who has the record for the most RBI’s set in a single postseason by any player in the history of ever. But I don’t think that Garcia is necessarily the best player on the market. There are plenty of other outfielders and just bats in general that are on the market that I think will fetch a heftier price tag in terms of prospect status as just player status in return. Jiren Durant, I think, is going to be the most soughtafter bat on the trade block this off seasonason. The I was about to say Dodgers. No, the Dodgers could end up maybe making a case for Jiren Durant to get their outfield a little bit younger. Um, they have always a pretty darn good farm system, but Durant is kind of not blocked, but kind of blocking other players out there in left field. He had a down year this year, which is still around a three and a half, four- win season, which if that’s a down year for you, that’s a really darn good player. Has several more seasons under contract. And the Red Sox have a lot of outfield talent out there that they don’t have enough spots for. I mean, Willie Oruo is also probably going to be on the market. I think that is someone who will have a little bit more value than Adul Garcia just coming off of a gold glove season. I believe that is his second straight gold glove out there in right field. I still think Garcia probably should have won that gold glove, but Willard Breu is was a better hitter than Adoleis last year. Cannot hit lefties though. A a right-handed against a guy who is only going to hit against right-handed pitching. So, a little bit of a platoon bat only right now. I think Joe Adele is also listed as being on the market. is still very young. He’s 26 years old. He played center field last year. He had a careerhigh 37 home runs. Was just a 1.2 war player last year because he didn’t play all that great a defense, but this was a really good season for Joe Adele. I’m not sure how many more seasons he has under club control. I think it’s at least a couple. He played 130 games in 2024. He played a full season this year, 152 games with 37 bombs and 98 RBI. This is a very good player. I think he’s more suited in a corner than he is in center field, but still a guy with a lot of talent. Had a lot of hype as a prospect coming up and is just now kind of starting to figure it out heading into his age 27 season. This guy still has a lot of developmental meat on the bone for sure. The next guy on this list, Byron Buckton, who I don’t think is going to get traded because he has a full no trade clause. Unless the Twins are just going to somehow tear it down even further to the studs than they already have, I don’t see Byron Boxing getting traded. He finished 11th in AL MVP voting this year, just one place shy of a $3 million bonus. If the Twins ownership was nice, they would go ahead and give him that bonus anyway because I really think he should have been top 10 and MVP voting ahead of Jeremy Pñena who finished in 10th place. Uh Steven Quan is also on the trading block allegedly. I don’t see the Guardians making a move on him. If they didn’t make a move on him at the deadline when they were pretty much out of it, good, good on them for not making that move because without Steven Quan, they do not make the postseason. Um, Luis Robert Jr. is projected to make is going to make $20 million. The White Sox picked up that club option this year. He plays really good center field defense. The bat is very up and down. He is very injuryprone. I think that there is more value in trading for Noles Garcia for one season at 121 12.5 million than there is trading for one season of Luis Robert Jr. for $20 million. And then Nick Castianos who is going to make $20 million this year who was a who’s been a terrible defender and he is also not a great hitter at this point in his career. I I think Adulles Garcia probably stacks up somewhere somewhere ahead of maybe maybe a little bit ahead of Joe Adele but behind Byron Buckton if he gets traded Steven Quan definitely behind the two Red Sox outfielders and I think he’s right around the kind of a price tag that we saw in the return for Taylor Ward. But what is that equivalent? What teams are even out there that would want to trade for Adults Garcia? And is there any trade value in Jonah? Talk about all that and more right after this. This show is brought to you by FanDuel. 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So head to fanduel.com to sign up and play your game with FanDuel, the official sport betting partner of the NBA. Shout out to the everyday making lock on Rangers your first listen every single day. On tomorrow’s show, I will be talking about uh for you for you big nerds, you 40man roster loving nerds. What are the end fringe moves? I’m talking about tomorrow’s show. Who was protected from the rule five draft? Who the Rangers should have protected? What moves should they have made to shore up some guys staying in the organization? All that and more on tomorrow’s episode of Locked on Rangers. Now, who are the possible suitors for Adoles Garcia? Right now, I don’t see a whole lot of trade value in Jonah. I don’t think there are going to be a whole lot of teams that are, you know, banging down the door to go and get Jonah, especially because the Rangers have very much showed their hands. They they have let out a cry to the world saying, “We’re so poor. We can’t afford anybody. Oh no, we are the brokeest boys to ever live.” And so if you cry poor that loudly, that distressedly for so many years, people will say, “Oh, oh, you’re trying to ship off this guy to save some money. Then you’re going to cut him regardless. So why would I give you a prospect? Why would I give you anything of value to go and get this guy when I could just wait until I believe it’s Friday? That is the non-tender deadline. So we we will know um pretty quickly about what is happening with these two guys if they are going to get traded if they are going to get non-tendered. I think Jonah Heim is likely to get non-tendered if the Rangers do not find a trade partner. $6 million isn’t all that much for a catcher given where the market is right now. But for what they’ve been getting out of Jonah and I think what they assume they can get out of Jonah next season, they are more willing to just go ahead and cut bait and say, “Yeah, we’re we’re done with a guy who who was our catcher the one year that we won a World Series championship, was an all-star that year, and was great.” I mean, he was pretty darn good the year before that as well in 2022. But for the last two years, Jonah has been one of, if not the worst qualified hitters in all baseball. The defensive value has gone down a little bit. The pitch framing has not been where it had been in seasons past, like in 2022. In 2023, as well, he was a great pitch framer the last couple years, not so much. The OPS Plus the last couple years has been at 77 and 75. It was at He was 25% worse than league average in 2024. He was 23% worse than league average this year. a 602 OPS in both seasons. It’s just been rough. And when you’re not providing value with the bat, you’re not providing as much value with the glove. And at $6 million, it’s not it’s not an outrageous price tag for a catcher, even one who does not hit at all. I mean, Austin Hedges is a worse hitter than Jonah, and he made $4 million last year. So, it’s not completely unreasonable, but it it’s just not where the Rangers want to spend their bucks this off season. for that reason of them tipping their hands and saying, “Oh, we’re so poor. Oh, we’re so poor.” If they didn’t do that, they might be able to get some value out of Jonah. I don’t know how teams look at Jonah, what they value with him being a switchhitting catcher who in the past has had, you know, really good offensive seasons or at least one really good offensive season and one okay offensive season then a bunch of not very good offensive seasons because outside of 2022 and 2023 and really basically just the first half of both those seasons, he’s been a bad hitter. I mean in 2021 he was an awful hitter with Texas. I mean, and truly abysmal that season. In the last few years, he’s been bad as well. So, I just don’t think there’s a whole lot of value out there for Jonah. Maybe there’s a team that’s got a little bit of money to spend. That’s fine spending six mill on a a defensive catcher who has great reviews. I mean, he was the primary catcher. He caught the most games this year of any Rangers catcher. And he was no small part of the Rangers having the best pitching staff in all of baseball this year. He’s not all of it. Obviously having Jacob Gro and a good season from Jack Lighter and Nathan Evaldi having having the best season of his career that helps. Same with Tyler Mali having his best career season. But but still Jonah definitely played a part in that. But there are some teams that will want Adulles Garcia. I think he gets a lot more higher than he deserves. He is the reason why the Rangers won the World Series. He’s the reason why the Rangers got to the World Series and did not lose the Astros in 2023. If not for Garcia, they do not have that core memory. You do not have that core memory. I do not have this little championship thing sitting on my desk every single day staring at me, reminding me that this team used to be good at baseball. But he’s just not what the Rangers needed this year. And so for that reason, the Rangers are saying, “Hey, let’s reallocate some of that money. Let’s go ahead and and save a little bit in right field and go and spend that elsewhere.” I I don’t think that’s the smartest plan. I would much rather them just keep keep him and hope that next year he can get just a little bit better because the defensive value made him a positive player. Even having Adulles Garcia out there, his bat was still better than what they’re going to get out of Alejandro Ozuna next year. I feel very confident in that. And that’s not to dismiss what Alejandro Ozuna is going to do next year or the kind of player he could be. I just I don’t think Ozuna as your, you know, primary right fielder is the best move right now. I I don’t think that maybe he’ll prove me wrong. He has been proving people wrong for a long time, but you have to replace that player. If if you’re frustrated with Earls Garcia, you say, “Oh, you got to trade that guy away. You got to cut that guy.” You got to play somebody out there in right field. You don’t just immediately have that position be filled by somebody who’s competent. You’ve got to go find someone else to go get. And there are some teams that will want it Garcia. He is a good player. He is a great defender out there. He does provide some power. He did still have 19 home runs last year in just 135 games. He’s going to get you 20 25 home runs at the minimum. And if he’s playing defense like he did last year, that’s a really good player and some teams could use that kind of a power because there are a lot of teams with really really bad offense. The the first team that I think of is the Kansas City Royals. That is a team that has been active talking about, hey, we want to get an outfield bat. We need another outfield bat. We just need some more power on this team that has a good pitching staff and has, you know, two really good hitters. Three, three, actually, maybe four really good hitters depending on how you’re looking at some of these guys. But, I mean, Salvador Perez is coming off a 30 homer season as a 35-year-old catcher. That’s really impressive. Vinnie Pascantino took a huge leap last year. He is a legitimately very, very good hitter. He played 160 games last year and had a 120 ops plus. Byeit Jr., I don’t need to say more. Bye Jr. is incredible. Michael Garcia was significantly better than most people think last year. Um he did make an all-star team and he deserved to. He had a 5.8 baseball reference for a season and 800 OPS which is very difficult to do in a pitcher very pitcher friendly park in Kansas City. But outside of that their offense just was not great. Maybe Jack Kleó makes a little bit more of a leap next year but he had a 532 OPS and not a small sample size. I mean 62 games is not tiny. I still think he is going to be a very good hitter eventually, but banking on that next year might not be might not be the move for them. Michael Massie was not great for them offensively. Adam Frasier was kind of fine, but Carl Stresky, they made a trade for him and he was or Mikey, he was Gstreky would be very good for them, but Mike Ystreky was was fine for them in 50 games after they traded for him. But they just need a little bit more offensive thump. And I think that Garcia could be someone that they view and say, “Hey, especially with a big big outfield that they have. Having good outfield defense is a little bit more valuable in parks like Kansas City, like Colorado even. I don’t think the Rockies are going to be calling on an old Garcia because they are just kind of a hot mess and I don’t think they’re looking for much right now. But the Royals aren’t the only team who could use a little bit more thump in that lineup and might just have a competent to very good package to give the Rangers for their 2023 ALCS MVP. Talk about who those teams are and more right after this. Now, the next team on this list that does not have a good offense, it’s not going to shock you by me saying that the Pirates have a bad offense. Uh, but it may shock you me saying, “Yeah, the the Royal the Pirates could definitely add on some some money to their payroll.” And they are going they’re willing to add some money to their payroll. They can add some money to their payroll is an obvious understatement of the century. They have Paul Skins. He just won the Sai Young. He is an incredible singular talent. He finished third in Sai Young voting as a rookie and I don’t believe he came up until the end of May. It was not a full season. Maybe it was June by the time he came up and he was already the third best pitcher in the National League after two guys had incredible seasons in 2024. But Paul Skins is truly singular and it was just an embarrassment that they were not spending money on their offense and they really needed desperate help in their offense. I mean, they had truly the worst offense in all of baseball. I know I know the Rangers offense was rough to watch in 2025, but the Pirates offense, I mean, it was just straight up horrible. They had one player hit 20 home runs or more. It was O’Neal Cruz. He hit exactly 20 and he had a 676 OPS. They only had one other guy hit more than 15 home runs. 15. They had two guys hit 15 or more home runs. The other one was Brian Reynolds who had a 99 OPS plus and 16 homers. That’s it. They only had two other guys who hit even 10 or excuse me, three other guys who hit 10. Spencer Horitz hit 11 home runs. They had Tommy Fam hit 10 home runs at age 37. They had Andrew McCutchen hit 13 at age 38. They need offense. They need dingers. They need a guy who can drive in some runs. And they’ve got plenty of room on their payroll. I mean, their payroll is just minuscule. And you may be saying, “The Pirates have never given up money. They have never signed anybody to a big contract, but they just offered Josh Naylor.” This is the one time This happens all the time in offseasons where teams are like, “Oh, we were really close on this guy. We we were we finished second on getting this big free agent that everybody wanted. And usually it’s like, okay, who cares? You’re you’re first loser. Congrats. You still don’t have the guy. But for the Pirates to have offered a major league player $80 million, they offered Josh Naylor $80 million and the Mariners won out because they offered him $95 million. Now, I I still think that’s a lot more money than you should be paying pretty much any first baseman unless they’re like Freddy Freeman or they’re Vlad Guerrero Jr. or they’re like one of the best hitters in baseball. And Josh Naylor is good, but he is not that. But the fact that the Pirates were willing to give a guy more than double what the biggest free agent contract in Pirates history was, it was Francisco Liriano, and it was under $40 million. The biggest contract in free agent history for the Pirates was less than $40 million. It was for Francisco freaking Liiano. That’s not a whole lot of money. But the fact that they might be willing to bring their payroll up from, you know, 29th, 28th, 30th to maybe somewhere in the 20th range. That is a whole lot of money they have to play with. If they get their payroll around $100 million, that is a lot of money for some quality free agents. And I think $12 million for a guy who’s going to get you almost assuredly 20 25 homers and some really good defense out there. And B, I think Adul Garcia, even with the struggles that he had last year, he might be the second best or maybe even best hitter in the Pirates lineup if they traded for him this off season. They’ve got a lot of pitching prospects, a lot of young relievers who the Rangers could go and acquire in a trade like this. Maybe um Cameron Majinsky could be a guy who they pick the tires on. I don’t know if if they would be willing to give him up. Maybe Braxton Ashcraft is someone who is is somewhere in the Rangers asking price. Maybe that’s a bit too high of a price. They’re definitely not getting Bubba Chandler. They’re they’re not getting Mitch Keller, I don’t think, in a trade like that. But there’s definitely some value there to be had. I think the the next team on my list of a team that makes sense that has the payroll flexibility and needs some offense, needs what Adulles Garcia brings, that’s the San Francisco San Francisco Giants. Could the Rangers go and call up Buster Posey? uh and say, “Hey, hey, just just ask your boy, ask your boy, your new special assistant to the GM, the greatest manager in franchise history and I guess multiple franchises histories.” Hey, did you like coaching at Garcia through that World Series run? Did did you like Hey, Bruce Bochi, did you like coaching at Garcia? Do you want him back on a team that you are employed by? I I think the answer for him would be assuredly yes because the Giants, they definitely need some offense. They just this year had a player hit 30 home runs for the first time since Barry Bonds. The first time since Barry Bonds, the Giants had just a pretty miserable offense. And in the corner outfield, there’s not a whole lot there for San Francisco. I mean, there’s really not a whole lot there. Heliot Ramos was basically manning right field and they could use some help. They could use some upgrades. They were still an 81 win team. They’ve got some other good offensive players that are going to be a factor. Willie Thomas down the stretch was a whole lot better. Um Matt Chapman was a really solid player. Jung Hu Lee was a good player for them. Um obviously Raphael Devers was a great player for them. Um and could be could be the guy who is the first left-handed hitter to hit 30 home runs. really do was that guy to break the 30 home run barrier for the first time since Barry Bonds. He did it with exactly 30 home runs in 160 games. But I think the Giants could be in the market for an outfielder. Will they be willing to give a decent price? I don’t know. I think the Rangers what they’re looking for in a kind of return, maybe it’s somewhere similar in a a pre-arbitration reliever who they feel really good about, you know, helping the Rangers long term, getting those costs down, and they’d have to spend less money on a bullpen option. if they went and traded for a pre-arbitration reliever like they did with the Nathaniel Low Robert Garcia trade last year that worked out pretty well for the Rangers, not as well for the Washington Nationals. Um, but I think that could be something they go and kick the tires on. Or maybe it’s someone that’s kind of a back-end rotation guy. May maybe that’s that’s the way the Rangers want to go. I don’t know exactly how they’re going to go about this, but I I think the Giants could be a target there. And the last team that I have on my list is a team that, you know, $12 million is chump change to them. I think the New York Mets could use a little bit of what Adolles Garcia is bringing. Mainly because if the Rangers traded him to the New York Mets, then Juan Sto could stop having to play the outfield every day because he is not particularly great at that. He is an incredible hitter. You just put him at DH and then maybe occasionally you put him out there in left field. Maybe you put him in in right field every once in a while to spell it all. Of course, he give him a day off. But the Mets are also looking to trade away Brandon NMO, who played primarily left field for them this year. He’s coming off a three- win season. And I I think that doesn’t really make sense for them. Maybe they feel better about having Tyron Taylor out there as an incredible defensive center fielder. Maybe maybe that’s what they’re going to end up going, how they end up going about it. I think Jose still has one season under contract, but the Mets could use a defensive upgrade out there in right field. Their pitching staff was not great last year. I think it’ll be better this year with maybe a full season of some of these younger guys like Nolan Mlan who was fantastic for them last year. I think putting Klay Holmes maybe back in the bullpen could help out both the bullpen and the rotation. David Peterson was really good for them last year. Kadisa would was pretty good when he was healthy. And so maybe helping out that pitching staff by having a little bit of a defensive upgrade out there in right field. And if the Mets roll out a defensive outfield of Tyron Taylor out there in center field or even if it’s José Seri and they throw out Brandon NMO in left field and Garcia in right field, that is a truly exceptional defensive outfield and could make their pitching staff just that much better and also take away a little bit of the wear and tear on Juan Stoodto and let him just go out there and be an incredible incredible hitter and not have to worry about defense and let him go and maybe steal 39 bases next year. I mean, he has a 4040 season. I mean, he had 38 stolen bases last year while playing pretty much every day in right field. And again, the financial situation is definitely a component there. Maybe maybe that ends up being the case with whoever wants Jonah. I I just I truly have no idea what kind of value Jonah has on this trademark. Catchers are weird. They are hard to evaluate. Their offense is very hard to evaluate. Sometimes it’s incredible, sometimes it’s bad. That’s why guys like JT Rialamuto when they’re at the peak of their powers, they get these big old contracts and why JT Rialuto still might get a pretty big contract because it is so hard to predict how good a catcher is going to be able to hit from season to season. Jonah was an all-star in 2023 and then he was the worst hitter in baseball the next year and he was still bad this year. It is impossible to predict and it’s also hard to put a price tag on the kind of impact that a good defensive catcher has on his pitching staff. I am just incredibly curious as to what that looks like with Jonah. We’ll probably know by the end of this week which way the Rangers are going to go. If they can’t find a trade partner, I fully expect them to just go ahead and designate him for assignment. With Garcia, I think if they can’t find a trade partner, they stick with him. I think that is the move that makes the most sense. I don’t think just cutting bait with a guy who had a a you know nearly gold glove season should have been a gold glove season last year and was not an abysmal offensive player. I don’t think just straight up cutting bait with it Garcia is going to be the move there. People have said maybe that’s going to happen. I I just I don’t see that being the case. 12.7ish million for a guy who is a two and a half 3-1 win player out there in right field who means that much to the fan base who has had that many iconic moments. Maybe the most iconic swing in the history of your franchise. I think just straight up dfaing him two years after that. It just does not make sense for where this team is. But I think there’s someone who’s willing to trade for Garcia. I don’t know who it is. I don’t know what they’re going to give up. But those are the teams that I think will most likely be at least giving Chris Young a call this week. 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.

The Texas Rangers are looking to trade two 2023 All-Stars in Adolis Garcia and Jonah Heim according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. With the Angels trading Taylor Ward to the Orioles for Grayson Rodriguez, is Adolis Garcia’s trade value going to net Texas a similar return?

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