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New Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer refutes notion he’s a “jerk”

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Mike Zimmer is a hard-nosed, old-school football coach. Some have called him a “jerk” (or maybe worse).

The truth is: Most players love playing for him (and beat writers love covering him).

Zimmer was introduced as the Cowboys’ new defensive coordinator on Wednesday, getting him back on the sideline for the first time since 2021. For the first time in four years, the Cowboys defense will be called by someone other than Dan Quinn, who left to become the Commanders’ head coach.

“There’s a reputation out there that I’m a jerk or something like that,” Zimmer said. “It is what it is, I guess. But you know, since it was announced I was going to be here, I’ve heard from so many players that played for me. Players here, not just defensive backs, the linebackers and defensive linemen have texted me and said how happy they were for me. I think if I was such a jerk I wouldn’t be hearing from those guys.”

Vikings safety Harrison Smith, who played for Zimmer from 2014-21, calls the former Vikings head coach “an acquired taste.” Former Cowboys safety Darren Woodson, who played for Zimmer from 1994-2003, is among his former players who say players have to adjust to the edge Zimmer has to him.

Zimmer disagrees.

“The ones who want to be great, they want to be coached,” Zimmer said. “There’s a lot more social media. There’s a lot more of the outside stuff going on. The ones I have been around, the young guys, the ones that want to be great, they want to be coached. They want to study. They want to understand how they can get better. Most all the great players, they want to know, ‘How can you make me better?’”

Former Vikings cornerback Xavier Rhodes, the 25th overall selection in 2013, is a player Zimmer said he pushed hard. Rhodes made three Pro Bowls and once was All-Pro, and the former player still has a relationship with his former coach.

“Xavier Rhodes called me probably five months ago,” Zimmer said. “I was on his rear end every day about being disciplined, getting the right footwork, all this stuff. He became a terrific player, and he called me and he just said, ‘Coach, I know how hard you were on me, but I appreciate what you’ve done for me and the family’ and things like that. You hear that. I was probably too hard on a lot of players, but I’ve heard it several times. It makes you feel good that they understand that you’re just trying to help them. You’re not just out to be a mean guy or something like that.”

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By Steve Adams | February 14, 2024 at 4:28pm CDT

Rangers fans have been holding out hope for a reunion with left-hander Jordan Montgomery , but general manager Chris Young threw plenty of cold water on that possibility Wednesday, telling the team’s beat that any notable acquisitions are unlikely at this point ( link via Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News ).

“I don’t think there are any additions coming at this point,” Young candidly stated. While he maintained that the Rangers will “keep an open mind” on free agents (including Montgomery), he also noted that long-term uncertainty regarding the team’s television contract “is real” and has impacted spending this offseason — even on the heels of a World Series win.

The lack of marquee additions has frustrated some fans who’ve grown accustomed to lavish free agent expenditures in recent years. The Rangers famously spent more than a half billion dollars to sign Corey Seager , Marcus Semien and Jon Gray two offseasons ago and followed that with a pitching-heavy attack in free agency last winter, signing Jacob deGrom , Nathan Eovaldi and Andrew Heaney for a combined $234MM. Texas also picked up two high-profile arms at last year’s deadline when acquiring Montgomery and future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer . Montgomery, of course, is a free agent and remains unsigned. Scherzer will be sidelined into June or July following offseason back surgery.

Currently, Roster Resource projects the Rangers for a franchise-record $220MM payroll. That comes with $243MM worth of luxury tax obligations, setting the stage for Texas to be a luxury payor for the second straight season. Texas only paid $1.8MM in luxury fees last year, but as a second-time payor they’ll face steeper penalties for eclipsing this year’s $237MM threshold.

Right now, sitting about $6MM over the first barrier, the Rangers are only on the hook for a 30% overage fee. They’ll pay roughly that same $1.8MM penalty if no further deals are made, but between small-scale signings, late trade acquisitions and/or in-season pickups near the trade deadline, that figure will likely rise.

The ostensible lack of willingness to meet Montgomery’s asking price in free agency has proved the greatest point of consternation among fans. Where that asking price stands at present isn’t clear, but it’s fair to expect that Montgomery and his reps at the Boras Corporation are still eyeing a nine-figure contract and an annual salary ranging from $20-25MM.

The Rangers, as second-time luxury payors, would be on the hook for a good bit more than that. They’d owe a 30% tax on the next $14MM worth of AAV (average annual value) added to their payroll and another 42.5% on subsequent spending. Just setting a speculative AAV of $23MM on Montgomery, that would position the Rangers to pay an additional $8.025MM in taxes on top of Montgomery’s salary. Texas could try to backload the deal or defer salary, but that would do nothing to change the luxury tax hit. In other words, depending on where exactly Montgomery’s AAV lands, he’d cost the Rangers something in the vicinity of an extra $7-9MM on top of what he’s earning.

That theoretical Montgomery signing would also make it far likelier that they’ll be third-time payors in 2025. A Montgomery deal would likely push Texas to around $170MM worth of luxury obligations in ’25, and that’s before factoring in arbitration raises for Nathaniel Lowe (earning $7.5MM this season), Jonah Heim ($3.05MM in ’23), Dane Dunning ($3.325MM in ’23), Leody Taveras ($2.55MM in ’23), Brock Burke ($1.035MM in ’23) and Josh Sborz ($1.025MM in ’23).

A conservative estimate for the Rangers’ 2025 arb class would clock in around $30MM, meaning with a theoretical Montgomery deal they’d be over $200MM in tax considerations before making a single addition to the 2025 roster. Long-term deals for core players like Adolis Garcia , Josh Jung , Evan Carter or even top prospect Wyatt Langford would only push that luxury number further north.

It’s fair to debate just how much Rangers ownership should fret over the luxury tax, of course. The team is still entering its fourth season (with fans) in a new stadium that provided a revenue boost, and last year’s World Series win provided ample additional revenue as well. Texas needn’t worry about sacrificing any draft value unless the team is more than $40MM over the threshold — the point at which a club’s top pick is dropped by 10 places in the following year’s draft. It’s unlikely they’d hit that level even if they were to re-sign Montgomery, and they’d be a long ways from that level next offseason as well, even with Montgomery on the books.

Still, every ownership group has its limits, and it seems the Rangers’ group has reached — or is at the very least approaching — its own limits for the upcoming season. If that’s indeed the case, Texas will rely on a patchwork starting staff in the season’s first half with an eye toward potential returns for deGrom, Scherzer and right-hander Tyler Mahle (who inked a two-year, $22MM deal earlier this winter) following the All-Star break.

At the moment, the Rangers’ rotation will likely include Eovaldi, Gray, Heaney, Dunning and left-hander Cody Bradford . Right-hander Yerry Rodriguez and non-roster invitees like Jose Ureña and Adrian Sampson could factor into the group as well. There are a handful of notable arms who could be signed to low-cost one-year deals, and the Rangers could continue stockpiling veterans on non-roster pacts, just as they’ve done with Ureña and Sampson — the latter of whom only signed yesterday.

More broadly, it’ll be a big year for the development of former touted prospects like Jack Leiter , Owen White and Cole Winn . All three are former top-60 draft picks — Leiter was selected second overall — who’ve ranked among the game’s top-100 prospects. However, all three struggled through ugly seasons in the upper minors in 2023 and have seen their stock drop amid those struggles.

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Snell, Montgomery, and Bellinger are running out of landing spots unless the price comes down quite a bit.

All going to the Dodgers…

Boras promised these guys the moon while RSNs are going bankrupt. Several clubs are at or near the luxury tax limit and teams like the Orioles and maybe the Angels are for sale. Not every team can operate like the Dodgers.

Gotta read the tea leaves Scotty…

And all I can say is these FA wives are more patient than my wife….

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10 hours ago

Boras screwed over Mike Moose a few years ago. I feel like owners are getting sick of overpaying most of the time for Boras clients. Boras lawsuit for MLB teams organizing against him coming in a few years time.

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Cards – I have nothing against any of those three players, but I’d love to see Boras look like a damn fool for overplaying his hand when his trio of clients is forced to accept far less than what he told them they would get.

Boras needs to be humbled, hope it happens during the next few weeks.

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“Boras needs to be humbled”…Boras is a lawyer that operates much like many other (slimy) lawyers. And there is a reason that many people dislike “lawyers”, aka paid liars..

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12 hours ago

aka paid liars ========================= Agents are not required to be overly truthful. If you have a headhunter working for you, they kind of get paid to say “Joe has a dozen job interviews lined up”, not “Joe will take that job for 10% less than what you are offering”.

I’m not sure it’s possible for Boras to be humbled. I don’t think a loss or two will do it.

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Again, why does Scott Boras need to be humbled? Why do you hate a guy that does his job well?

“Why do you hate a guy”..You do realize lawyers(and Boras is a lawyer)have long had a shady reputation well before Scott Boras, right?…Didn’t Scott Boras specifically lie about the health of client Kumar Rocker’s arm to the New York Mets?…Didn’t Scott Boras also mis-represent client Carlos Correa as “fully healthy” during his recent free agency?….And that’s just in the last 1.5 yrs or so and I could easily list another dozen or so sketchy/shady moves made by Boras if I wanted to spend the time.

Didn’t Scott Boras specifically lie about the health of client Kumar Rocker’s arm ========================== Technically, no. He phrases things in less than certain terms. Saying Rocker’s arm feels great does not mean Rocker won’t have an issue real soon.

Correa’s issue was also not a current issue. To say that Correa can currently play 162 games is not the same as saying that Correa will stay 100% healthy for the next ten years.

And these types of disclosures are meant for the fans. The team has the best doctors in the world working for them. They do their due diligence.

8 hours ago

Boras is an agent who has a law degree. He also has a degree in pharmaceutical science. So are you going to call him a pharmacist too? He’s good at his job which is why guys hire him. Some guys are willing to accept a little less or want to sign with a specific team so they go to other agents. Boras is the best agent in the history of baseball. He has made more money for his clients in his 40+ years as an agent than anyone else. Personally, I admire him. He has a job to do and does it well. Why would I begrudge him that?

13 hours ago

Unfortunately—- in the case of Kimbrell and Kluber— Boras was proven too greedy with his clients.

The bad thing—- it didn’t hurt Boras that these 2 star pitchers didn’t get signed!!! Although it basically ruined both of thes players future going forward!!

Those 2 missed signings didn’t hurt Boras pocket book at all. Nor did he care he hurt or ruined their careers for not being flexible in his negotiations.

Montgomery and Snell need to wake up !!

Snell has an offer from the Yankees on the table. 6/$150 if he doesn’t think that’s good enough then he waits. Boras isn’t the problem, he’s giving his clients options and they choose to hold out. They know full well that someone could be hurt in ST or that a team could panic and up their offer. His players will get paid, if not this year then next,

He didn’t “prove too greedy”. He gave them options. They thought they could get more and eventually, they made that money back.

I’d love to see Boras look like a damn fool for overplaying his hand ======================= I don’t think it works that way. I’m pretty sure Boras sits with his players before this process and explains the options. And I’m pretty sure that one of the options was a waiting process.

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Between those three and Chapman I think the Angels, Giants and Cubs each get one. I’d thinks Yanks will be in on Snell or Monty after the Os got Burnes

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Gmen, Jack Curry (always trust Jack Curry) says the Yankees are done with the big acquisitions. I think the price on Monty and Snell would have to drop way low for them to get one of them.

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23 hours ago

Monty will and can be had for 5/110 or less.

Joe it makes sense and truthfully if Rodon could bounce back to be even 2/3 of who he was with the Giants the Yankees should be fine with pitching. Almost feels at least one of those four is gonna get signed mid season at this point

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22 hours ago

It will be expensive for the Yankees because they are so high over the threshold that they have to pay double. So to sign Montgomery at $25M per year will cost them $50M. Snell at $30M cost $60M. Chapman at $20M i $40M. It’s not going to happen. If the Yankees add it will most likely be by trade.

Boras is going to sellout Montgomery’s and Snells 2024 season. Just like Boras did with 2 other Cy Young and Fireman award winners in Kluber and Kimbrell.

Kluber and Kimbrell were in their prime—- but because Boras wouldn’t sign them for lesser money than requested—— they had to set out the entire season. Thus basically ruining their careers going forward.

I hate that for those 2 pitchers!!! They should demand Boras to set up —- opt out and incentive laden contracts so the can pitch in the 2024 season and look to 2025 for their big extended contracts.

At that point—— the Cardinals need to jump on one or both of them!!!

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11 hours ago

Neither Kluber or Kimbrel ever sat out a full year.

THEY CHOOSE WHAT TO DO!! He gives them options and they choose. If Snell thought 6/$150 was good enough he’d be a Yankee. He won the Cy Young (his second) he probably feels he’s worth more. They may end up getting one-year opt-out deals but they’re going to get paid.

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Don’t bring me down Bruce!

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Lessee, who’s got some roster room left? Plenty of room in COL and OAK. Welcome home boys!

Is it really too much time ask for the Red Sox to do the obvious and just sign Monty?

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The same has been said about alot of free agents this year that were connected with Boston. I think Monty will go to the Sox after hearing this shocking news, but the way the offseason has gone for them I don’t really know what to think…

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Sox have a youthful gameplan and are sticking to it. Not wasting any money

Rick – Yeah why should the ultra-rich incredibly-greedy Red Sox owners waste money towards competing for a championship when they can sit on their wallets and become even richer as the beloved home team finishes in last place year after year.

Very glad you’re so concerned about John Henry “wasting” money by trying to win.

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Except they haven’t developed youthful pitching talent. Montgomery would not be a waste of money. He’s a solid #2 or #3, but because it’s the Red Sox, he’d serve as their #1.

“Not wasting any money”..The Redsox have allowed themselves to fall so far that adding an expensive free agent is futile, since the Sox are not one or two players away from contention. Ask the Anaheim Angels what adding expensive free agents to a very thin core accomplishes. Until the Red Sox draft and develop better, adding expensive free agents is futile, since it only ties up payroll and locks you into your present course.

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I agree. The blind hatred for rich people from unsuccessful fans is astounding. If you are poor, you hate your life. If you are rich, people hate you. Players somehow go unscathed in this meritocracy since the media worship them (unless they use PEDs, have politically-incorrect lifestyles/views, or happen to be named Barry Bonds).

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Do you recall I told you the Rangers were done adding players, and you argued the point with me. Hate to say I told you so, but…

They did add Robertson. That counts as something. Not quite Hader/Clase/Williams, but better than what I can reasonably expect from a guy of CY’s aptitude and intellect

Sox have a youthful gameplan and are sticking to it. ============================= I actually agree with that in theory. But the youth movement should be based on kids replacing veterans. So, for example, we won’t sign any position players because we have plenty of candidates over the next year or two.

That makes perfect sense.

But we have no pitching. We have Bello for sure. And we have Crawford, Houck and Whitlock, and none of them are nowhere near locks. We aren’t remotely close to having pitching redundancies.

Young: Rangers Do Not Expect To Compete For The AL West is more like it…

Take a look at the pitching injuries in Houston. If anything, this ensures a three way dogfight for the division title

Who is the third team. I think it is fairly obvious Houston is the best in the west, followed by Texas. Nobody else in the division is near those two.

The Mariners had a lot of moving parts this offseason, but I expect them to be in close competition for the division. They have a great core. They are a team that really should have added a stud player this offseason, nonetheless I believe they are legit contenders.

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20 hours ago

Yeah, like Texas didn’t barely sneak into the playoffs ahead of Seattle and try to choke away their spot at that. Not sure how Seattle isn’t “near” Texas after finishing 1 GB of them and getting better while Texas arguably got worse.

48 mins ago

Right now according to the 2024 predictions, the Mariners are supposed to be 1 win behind the rangers

47 mins ago

Mariners by far

AirYordan- I’m with you, but I will concede that Houston is still superior to Seattle. I think Texas caught lightning in a bottle. That said, the M’s need to put their money where their mouth is and make the playoffs this season.

“Rangers do not expect to”…You didn’t really think they were going to spend half a billion dollars every single off-season did you?…learn baseball, teams load up some years and then scale back other years to manage payroll.

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“…do not expect to…” isn’t a solid declaration. It could be a signal to Montgomery, or anyone else, that they’re not meeting asking prices. But it does leave them the room to pivot should years/prices come down.

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Jean – Very logical comment that makes perfect sense!!

Personally, the Rangers are so loaded any additions now are icing on the cake. It may take time before deGrom is back but all they need to do is make the playoffs and then present the pitching staff for short series of: 1 – deGrom 2 – Scherzer 3 – Eovaldi 4 – Gray

C – Heim 1B – Lowe 2B – Semien SS – Seager 3B – Jung LF – Carter CF – Langford RF – Garcia DH – Duran

Monty is a nice to have but they just need to make the playoffs to win a second ring!!

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Where’s Taveras? He’s in CF with Carter in LF. Langford DH’ing.

But they have to make the playoffs first and DeGrom, Scherzer and Montgomery aren’t playing.. And when the injured come back it will take them time to ramp up– that’s if they’re okay?

19 hours ago

justinkm19 – Absolutely that can happen. I was really just trying to show how incredibly strong this team is.

carliafong – The depth of the pitching is pretty amazing.

Without deGrom and Scherzer the rotation is Eovaldi, Gray, Heaney, Dunning and Bradford with Mahle, deGrom and Scherzer arriving later.

The hitting is good enough to carry the team while the pitching heals and so far there is no reason to doubt that deGrom and Scherzer won’t be dominant like they have been their whole careers. 10 starts should ramp them up for the post season.

@trollfree- deGrom said he and Scherzer are both aiming for mid-season. Given the inevitable deGrom set back, hopefully he gives them 6 starts again this year. They may be in a hole by the time both are back, given that the rotation will look like this: Eovaldi, Dunning, Heaney, Gray, Mahle. That’s a lot of #4s and #5s, plus a guy who overachieved and is truly more like a #3 himself.

45 mins ago

You don’t have to spend half a million dollars to try to compete for the AL West and Defend your championship. When a already elite team goes thru injuried and have lots of options to replace and they watch them all fall, that is extremely dissapointing.

Their offense alone will allow them to compete, plus that starting five is better than decent..

If I was a Cardinals fan I’d be pretty happy to say the least

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Why? They’re not going to sign him unless he defers 95% of his contract or it’s severely backloaded.

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Cardinal fan here. Foolishly, I’m still holding out hope.

52 mins ago

I think every baseball fan can relate to that feeling lol

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Rangers are in a tough spot. If they can hang in the race until July or so they will have 3 quality starters coming back in DeGrom, Scherzer and Mahle. And they will be an excellent team. But if they are 10 games back in July what do you do then? Sell?

They won’t sell, they still have a good core in Seager, Semien, Garcia and Carter. There would be no reason to sell…

I didn’t think the Cardinals would sell last year but they sure did. That’s a tough division and that rotation isn’t good enough. Not until the hurt guys get healthy.

Can’t compare the Cards situation to the Rangers. Rangers just spent a ton on infielders and pitchers. They have a good core for the next 2 years while the Cards don’t really have a stable core as Goldshmidt is a FA next year, and the Rangers just have a overall better team and better farm system to (Jack Leiter, etc.)

Cardinals have spent a ton on infielders and pitchers too feel free to look it up. Cardinals also have a good young core and pretty good prospects on the way. Without DeGrom, Scherzer and Mahle I don’t think the Rangers have a better team at all.

Im not sure what your talking about with the infielders, they extended Edman and thats pretty much it… I think most people would tell you the Rangers current Openening Day Roster is better then the Cards

Goldschmidt and Arenado are infielders. Edman is the starting center fielder for now.

Again take DeGrom, Scherzer and Mahle out of the equation and I think the Cardinals have a better team. Who are the top 5 starters for the Rangers in April?

It’s not just about the rotation is it?

It’s not just about April is it?

Nope, but thats what I was refering to because nobody can predict what will happen after that….

24 hours ago

April matters. If the Rangers don’t make the playoffs it won’t matter how good they are in September. And without those 3 starters I don’t know if they can compete in what is a tough division.

Forgot about their All-Star 3B and C, Jung and Heim

51 mins ago

Exactly, where as the Cardinals don’t have as much to build off of.

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this is kind of the same situation as the giants who are likely to field 3 of the 5 spots to guys with less than a year on the big leagues while ray and cobb are out.

Yeah but the Rangers have more elite pitchers on the injured list then the giants so I would say the Rangers are in a better position

Giants need help at least they aren’t publicly saying they are finished this offseason. Really not a fan of what the Giants have done so far.

9 hours ago

I am good with it as long as it lets the young guys get the ball – if even half of the arms are as good as expected it will be a log jam that facilitates some positive trade value. People underestimate what is happening there, you have 4-5 guys ready to come up now as rotation pieces and another 4-5 behind them easy so not going and getting older overpriced pitching that is going to block guys is fine with me – it is the offense that needs help and soler and lee are a good first step but I think there is something more that will be done before the season starts there

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It seems like Ranger ownership doesn’t understand they can literally completely miss the playoffs from loses in the 1st half of the season. Montgomery’s value will mainly be for the 1st half, helping the Rangers to be in good shape until the top injured pitchers return in the 2nd half. If any of those returning flame out, Montgomery would be needed more than ever.

That is why I was saying that Young Is saying “do not expect to compete for the AL West” their current team isn;t on par to beat the Astros

16 hours ago

There was one guy willing to sign for the minimum who could fill in for that 1st half…

Translation: “Scott Boras lose my number!”

This is really fascinating cause it’s going to force guys to sit out spring training or drop their demands.

Teams like the Yankees, Dodgers, Phillies, & Mets could get involved again. But I kinda hope the prices drop a bit so that some smaller market clubs like the Reds get involved and land one of these guys instead of it always being the big names.

Agreed. Montgomery probably won’t want to play in Cincy, but Reds should slap their best offer to Boras/him with a week to accept. Nothing to lose on a long shot.

6/165mil would likely be the highest offer as a suggestion for Reds …..to make Boras scramble when Montgomery asks him to try getting RSox or Yanks to match. That’s just over what he got Rodon last offseason.

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If only the Tiger’s FO was smart, like me.

Montgomery will be pitching in Japan…

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He may have a yen to do that pretty soon.

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Breslow just go sign Montgomery sheesh

In other words we are conceding the division to the Astros. Monty was there shot at a repeat

I did not know you also played on the Rangers. What’s your real life name? That aside, expect an improvement in 30/63 saves by about 10 or 15 more minus regression and at least 90 wins as a result of just adding Robertson/Yates, a bunch of NRIs, plus Antoine Kelly/Chase Lee/Marc Church. Houston lost 3 relievers to inuries + free agency and hasn’t retained Stanek. All they got was Hader. It’s going to be all right. Read the Verlander injury article. Verlander is more valuable than Montgomery.

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All they got was Hader lol

Sure, I would love Hader over all the guys Texas got, but Hader can only replace 1 guy, not 4. It’s about quantity over quality in this case.

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Didnt the rangers lose 3 relievers to free agency (Smith, Chapman and Stratton) and only got back Robertson (who ended the season poorly and is older) and Yates.

That also doesnt include 4 lost starters (Perez and Mongomery free agency along with Degrom and Scherzer half season due to injury) for good portions if not all season. and on top of their DH?

Houston has only lost 3 relievers and a replaced their catcher with a younger cheaper and better C along with adding a better backup than their primary starter last season.

Sure, losing Maldy and Baker help. However, Perez is addition by subtraction, and they only had Scherzer and Montgomery for less than 4 months combined. deGrom made 6 starts that the Rangers all won, but he will likely make more starts in 2024. Mahle was wasteful spending, but he will also pitch.

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Rangers are still good. will be a good time to see some young arms step up this season while the other vets are rehabbing. Last year was fun as hell. just beat the asstros.

At this point how is it not a conflict of interest for Boras to represent these guys ????

Boras greed hurting a bunch of his clients smh

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Montgomery = overrated because he was a Yankee

And won a World Series. He’s not overrated at all. He’s good solid #2 and a great #3.

mlb.com/news/jacob-degrom-injury-hopeful-august-re… Scherzer is expected back in June (2 months out), Mahle in July (loses 3 months), and deGrom in August (4 months). I’d trade deGrom with either, but it is what it is. As for fans being whiny brats, I agree, but the idea is they spent a good bit of their money on Jankowski and Mahle, when they could have focuses on Hader instead of Robertson and Mahle or signed other relievers instead of Mahle. It’s the wasted money and the refusal to make significant trades that annoy many fans. Obviously, a WS is great, and blowing past the luxury threshold is not cheap. Fans are just entitled and predisposed to be disappointed. It’s every team’s fans all the time, though I do understand fans wanting their team to trade like the Mariners.

Could be shrewd GM move puttin this nugget in sports reporters ear that they’ve come as far as they can on their offer. There may be fire sale on sum of boras’ clients but afraid the big teams will just swoop em up @discounted rates.

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Total BS on Rangers ! Well dig ourselves a hole waiting on the mash unit to arrive – then trade top prospects trying to survive. Sign Montgomery

First, find an idiot or really rich guy (Elon Musk) who wants to waste money on a sport. If you can’t, try to be realistic. If you were even a 1% owner, you would not want the team blowing through the luxury budget. Imagine if you owned a stock that gives charity to rich MLB players.

The Rangers offense is very strong and will allow them to be extremely competitive. The Rangers have spent “Dodgers” money the last couple of off-seasons and yet they lack the daily overflow crowds of the Dodgers. You didn’t really think they’d spend “Dodgers” money every single off-season did you?…It’s payroll management 101.

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Texas had to take a haircut on this year’s TV money and has no guarantee of TV money next year.

Business 101 would say this is not the time to sign a 6+ year nine digit deal.

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There are many casual fans in the DFW Metroplex who could care less about free agent signings. They know their team won the World Series and they’ll go watch them in a nice temp controlled dome. The Rangers resting on their laurels isn’t the worst thing in the world for the long term success of the team.

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The Rangers are clearly banking on the second half of their season moreso than their first half. deGrom, Scherzer and Mahle are all out until at least midseason, yet if all three are able to come back and mostly retain their previous forms, it would give Texas a scary late season/playoff rotation to go along with their already dominant offense – which could get even better at some point in 2024, with the arrival of top prospects like Wyatt Langford and Justin Foscue.

The one area I think they should have invested slightly more into was their bullpen, which was far and away their biggest weakness for all of 2023. Sure, they brought in the two old men in Robertson and Yates, who may both still have something left in the tank despite showing signs of decline last year, but they really needed to do a bit better than just that. I think one of their biggest offseason mistakes was a low-key move where they let Justin Slaten go to the Mets (and then Red Sox) in the Rule-5 draft. He looks like he could be a very solid reliever going forward, perhaps as soon as 2024. It was weird to me that a team that needs RP so badly would let him go like that.

They also drafted an elite Rule 5 guy from the Yankees who they could use after he returns from injury, and they kept Foscue + all their key guys from being drafted. I do agree they shpuld have gone for Hader or a trade for Clase/Bednar/Williams, each of whom was rumored to be somewhat movable.

Win the World Series then punt the next season. Interesting!

Not even close to punting. Rangers are 7th (out of 30) in payroll at just over 215mil. They committed a boatload of money to deGrom/Seager/Semien/Eovaldi in recent offseasons. The tv deal issues don’t help either.

Some people are too stubborn to realize 110 million vs maybe 50-80 MM makes a huge difference from 2025 on.

Punting like the Chiefs maybe.

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Hilarious that Monty and Snell are getting the cold shoulder. I wish all teams would do this with players asking for garbage contracts.

It would be nice to see the Tigers jump in on Montgomery. He’d be a great dependable #2 behind Skubal and drop everyone else down a spot in the order where they should be (Maeda #3, Flaherty #4). That would open up the option to trade off one of their surplus starters (Manning, Olson or even Mize) to fill other needs (another good bat, young SS to eventually replace Baez, maybe a young 3B or C).

That kind of move would definitely make them the AL Central favorite and competitive in the playoffs. Doubtful but why not? They have the money.

Skubal and a decent reliever for Duran and White? Maybe add in a guy like Dustin Harris.

Skubal is projected to be one of the best pitchers in the league this year and might win the Cy Young. I read an article somewhere recently that ranked him 3rd for the AL Cy Young (mlb.com maybe).

Young and controllable, wicked arm, making under $3 million this year. That would be a conversation that starts with Langford or Carter plus a lot more. I’d expect the Tigers would ask for more than what thecWhitecSix did for Cease. I hope the don’t trade him.

I think the Tigers would trade Duran and White for Manning, definitely way too light for Skubal.

I’d take Manning for free (Duran and White), but Skubal is projected to have a 3.73 ERA by Bref’s simple regression model. Though I fawn over K/BB rates (deGrom is the best of all time in that measure), I would block the number of anyone asking for Evan Carter or Mini Mike Trout for anyone not named Ronald Acuna if I were the GM.

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That’s why I highly doubt Skubal gets traded. Check other sources on him. The guy was a monster after coming back last year. I’d be pissed of they traded him. Manning is a good pitcher, but fragile.

I’d definitely like to live the rest of my life without seeing another story with this much talk around the minutiae of arbitration.

Come July, fans will either be livid about the Rangers first-half rotation blowing the season, or they’ll be grumbling that the Rangers got lucky with their starters and are still in contention. Gotta love the fans.

I expect the Angels to scoop up a couple of big names on the bargain bin. Boras is running out of teams. No one is going to pay the rate and years he wants.

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Trevor Bauer is available for a team but MLB is blackballing him for no reason. Dude did nothing that’s deserving of a lifetime “ban”!

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He isn’t banned and he isn’t being blackmailed, the reason why he hasn’t been signed is because so far every team in the MLB hasn’t been willing to accept the villian role and the extreme critiscism if they would sign him

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So much for a repeat. Pitching is too weak to get them to the point where the injured pitchers return.

Hoping for Bellinger and Monty to arrive in Arizona @ Sloan soon…

Go Cubs Go!

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Since then, Melton has gone on to receive a slew of award nominations and wins. He picked up Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award noms and won a Gotham for outstanding supporting performance.

Fans of the film, however, were disappointed when Melton didn’t receive an Oscar nomination, and the movie only earned one for original screenplay.

His family members keep him grounded. “They always give me a hard time,” Melton said, smiling.

I asked Melton to recall the most “surreal experience” he had during his time with “May December.” “It’s all of it,” he said. “It’s being able to share this journey that I made this movie with — the writers, the editors, Todd Haynes, Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. And then just meeting so many of my heroes along the way and hearing their response to the film and my performance.”

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Speaking of football, Melton talked about his Kansas roots. “My family lives in Kansas City so I spend time there,” he said. “It’s kind of my home state even though I’m an Eagles fan. So I was really happy to see the Chiefs win. It was a great game.”

And add Melton to the list of folks who think Taylor Swift has had a positive effect on the NFL. “I think it’s incredible,” said Melton, who was spotted at a Swift concert in August. “I am a huge fan. I love it. [The Super Bowl] was the most-watched TV show since the moon-landing in 1969!”

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