Maybe platoon the two based on whether you need offense or defense on a given day, like the Blue Jays should have done with David Eckstein and John McDonald?

Teagarden has too much value to be sitting around playing only 2 times a week. Play him or trade him.

I don’t know if he still has the most value. He just didn’t do much with a starter audition during Laird’s recovery in July.

But he’s young. You can still say that a little while longer.

that will not work. Rangers have Laird. And Max Ramirez will not be around to long.

And Teagarden isn’t going anywhere,

Contract up, yeah. One-year, and I could’ve sworn he’d be a deadline trade.

Worst-case JD earned the club an extra 1st-rounder/supp pick. It’s a nice coup.

Rangers watchers predict Washington will politic to re-sign the guy, so there’s that too.

move to the outfield… not DH, I see the Rangers keeping Max unless someone blows them away with an offer… I believe Laird will be traded in the offseason. Salty’ as well in the right deal, but im not counting on it. I think Teagarden is the catcher of the future for the Rangers.

Do you work for the Rangers? If so, I am sure a lot of us would have a lot of other questions. But, if you don’t work for the Rangers or have inside information, you are guessing just like the rest of us.

I do agree though that Smoak has to earn his way to the majors. But I think he has a pretty good shot since he was a college polished hitter. Ya never know though. Freak injuries, transition to wood bats, inability to hit professional quality breaking pitches… lots can happen between now and then. Until this all works out though, all of us are guessing and making up hypothetical situations, even you, as much as you may not want to admit it.

disagree with others.

It was my understanding that Davis was quite the butcher at 3B and that is why they moved him to 1B. I don’t see him moving back if that was the case. I also don’t see Byrd as a starting OF for them next year instead of Murphy, and there is also Mayberry to contend with. I could see them possibly bringing back Bradley next year, and starting him in one corner OF spot and Murphy in the other, with either Byrd or Mayberry backing up both corner OF spots. I do like the idea of Max Ram at DH, and spliting it some with Bradley who has been a littl einjury prone throughout his career.

I also don’t think Salty has the bat for 1B. And I am not sold on Teagarden yet, but that’s a personal thing. Also, I would like to see them alleviate some of their line-up and depth problems by trading for a true lead-off CF. Let Bradley/Murphy/Byrd/Mayberry play LF, move Hamilton to RF, and get a quicker CF. That way you can lead-off the CF, have Kinsler hit 2nd, and then follow that up with Hamilton, Bradley, then Davis. Or go after Raf Furcal in the offseason to replace FLop at SS and lead him off. Those are the two things I would look to do if I were running the team.

Young’s contract won’t allow him to be traded.
Davis is not a thirdbaseman.
Salty is not a firstbaseman.
Bradley probably won’t be resigned.
Stick to the Mets.

If Young was to be traded, I doubt JD would sign much more than a journeyman type SS to a minor-league deal. Joaquin Arias, I imagine, would be given every chance to be the everyday shortstop.

But there is no way that Young will be traded before Andrus is absolutely ready. It’s not a question of tradeability—he’s the Face Of The Franchise, whether Rangers fans like it or not. If he has enough value to be traded, then he has enough value to stay in Texas, and until he starts burning bridges like Teixiera it won’t matter if he’s tradeable or not…that is unless JD pulls an Epstein and trades away the franchise player because the team is a title contender and he’s replaceable.