I was having a discussion with one of my friends this morning, and we were wondering why the Rangers have been trying to sign a big name bat that will likely be a DH or defensive fill in. I may have come up with one unsubstantiated theory. The Rangers have a major trade in the works involving someone or someones on the team. Hear me out. Why else would they be looking to sign a guy to fill a roll that is already filled (Michael Young at DH) unless they plan on
1. Getting rid of Michael Young or
2. Getting rid of some other players and having Mike play their position.
I have n0 hard proof of this, it is just something that I thought might be interesting to think about. Here are a few I came up with:
1. Trading Ian Kinsler and some prospects to another team for a No. 1 starter and moving Michael Young back to 2nd base. Maybe to Florida for Josh Johnson or another starting pitcher of that caliber.
2. Packaging Michael Young and maybe Murphy or Borbon and some minor leaguers in a 3 team trade to get both an outfielder and a starting pitcher to Texas. Again, I have no sources on this, jsut food for thought. If the Rangers were to do that, again it would have to be a no. 1 caliber starter again and a pretty good outfielder/DH.
3. Giving away the farm to win now. This is something that I do not believe that the new ownership would do, but this is all hypothetical anyway, so I wanted to explore it as well. The Ranger could keep everyone they have at the major league level except maybe Young, Kinsler, Murphy, or even Cruz (all thought that would be really dumb) and give away a ton of prospects to put together a Florida Marlins type win one a done team. I would personally be against this, but it could happen!
I am interested and curious on why the Rangers keep shopping for players like Manny Ramirez, Adrian Beltre, Jim Thome and others who have been mentioned unless they are planning on dropping someone that they already have. Just my crazy ideas! Let me know what you think here on the site or drop me a message on Twitter or Facebook.
