I like Bochy. I will be forever grateful for '23.

He was and has been a .500 regular season manager.

Bochy does a lot of things during the season where I feel he left money on the table. You want to give your players a chance to fail and he does a great job gaining a player's trust and understanding how to use his players in the post-season. That is his magic. Super power.

However, I think when Semien talked about not everyone having that killer instinct to win, he could be referring to Bochy. Bochy was willing to lose games in order to give players a chance.

He needed to transition to "winning" mode earlier and the young guys nearly saved him late in the season. Same happened in '23, where some of the young guys rose to make the playoffs.

Easy to armchair... Garcia's numbers were actually pretty decent, but there was a stint where Bochy kept rolling him out there. Same with Luke.

The game changed since '23. Small ball, moving players around, and doing the little things was the way in '25. We got that with the Little Rascals and the results were obvious. As a team, we never adapted to "the way." Bochy did adapt to making the constant moves of substitution and he can manage that way, but didn't get there early enough in the season.

If we had Seager, Semien, or any number of players return, we might have a different conversation, but the reality is, we didn't get it done. Injuries or not.

This sure sounds like we are bargain bin shopping this offseason. I'd run it back but with an entirely new staff, minus Garcia, Heim, and a few other fringe guys. I don't see what else you can do unless you get really wild with trades.

Keep in mind, we're losing $40M in P, alone.

Mahle, Gray, and Martin, specifically.
deGrom will make $2M less, while Eovaldi will make $7M more.

If we don't sign anyone, we'll be $35M below 2025.

Leiter will likely be better.

Let's pencil it as:
(5) deGrom, Eovaldi, Leiter, Latz, Rocker
(8) Winn (25), Garcia*, Webb (31), Curvelo (24) - 4 Open

We could sign 4 guys for less than $5M each

Maybe we could get Martin for another $5M

This is part 2 of the Jeff Wilson tweet.

The next #Rangers manager will have some player-development roots, Young said, and Skip Schumaker is a candidate. No decisions have been made on the rest of the coaching staff. 2/2

— Jeff Wilson (@JeffWilsonTXR) September 30, 2025

Rangers 2026:

Now, Let's talk Offense/Defense

Given
_C: Higgy (35) - $6.75 ($1M more)
2B: Semien (34) - $26M (same)
SS: Seager (31) - $31.5M ($1M less)
CF: Langford (23) - Serf ($773k in '25)

Role players
OF: Osuna (22) - Serf ($773k in '25)
Duran (26) - Arb1
Smith (27) - Arb1

Bubble
DH: Pederson (33) - $18.5M (same)
1B: Burger (29) - Arb1 ($773K in '25)
3B: Jung (27) - Arb1 ($773K in '25)
RF: Adolis (32) - Arb3 ($10.5M in '25)
_C: Heim (30) - Arb3 ($4.75M in '25)

Losses
Moore and Tellez

Other guy:
Helman (29) - Serf

What does it look like:
_C: Higgy (35)
1B: Burger (29)
2B: Semien (34)
3B: Jung (27)
SS: Seager (31)

LF: Osuna (22)
CF: Langford (23)
RF: Adolis (32)

Bench
Duran (26)
Smith (27)
DH: Pederson (33)
_C: Heim (30)
Helman (29)

Not sure we can dump Pederson. Jung, Adolis, and Heim are all going to be hard Arb cases. These guys could all be huge contributors in 2026, and they could all be pouty boys if they lose their Arb.

Saw a couple of the national writers hint pretty strongly that Shumaker will be the next Ranger manager (heymsn, Nigtendale).

This should be no surprise, most assumed he came here to take over once Bochy was done.

Pretty sure Adolis isn't coming back - at least that was the sense I got reading Newberg and others recently.

ETA: as well as Jonah

Carter ... Sborz...

Not sure either are penciled in for anything other than IL.

I like both, but I wanted to stick with likely.

I wonder how much of that will be dictated by the new manager.

Adolis just never seemed comfortable after the Arb.

Heim looked worn out all season. No energy. Received the ball well, but just didn't seem "into it."

Jung had great defense. He seems to be a fav in the clubhouse and I've heard over the years he interacts with the Ps on the mound in a positive way. Like when they throw the ball around the horn. IIRC, he leads the clubhouse card games. Having said that... lots of chatter that he does his own training and prep outside the team.

Not sure what to believe, but we couldn't hit 4S FBs in '24. So we got guys who could git 4S FBs but apparently couldn't hit anything offspeed.

Need guys that don't miss the ball with less than 2 Outs and RISP.

toucan82 said:

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Let's go... find a new manager

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Mark DeRosa
He win manage a team to a World Series championship.

La Fours said:

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This is part 2 of the Jeff Wilson tweet.

The next #Rangers manager will have some player-development roots, Young said, and Skip Schumaker is a candidate. No decisions have been made on the rest of the coaching staff. 2/2

— Jeff Wilson (@JeffWilsonTXR) September 30, 2025

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Not rebuilding....but will be younger and have financial uncertainty? That's rebuilding but still trying to sell season tickets.

Not necessarily a rebuild.

The roster is pretty locked. We need a few RPs and some role players on O.

Players like Pederson (33, .181, 81 OPS+), Jung (27, 100 OPS+), Garcia (32, .227, 93 OPS+), and Heim (30, .213, 77 OPS+) will make up a bunch of the cost for Hitting and aside from Adolis' +2.7 WAR... the other 3 are replacement players. Even Burger (29).

This team just didn't perform well at the plate. If we're going to get below avg performance... might as well be a young guy who doesn't make much.

DallasAg 94 said:

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Rangers 2026:

Now, Let's talk Offense/Defense

Given
_C: Higgy (35) - $6.75 ($1M more)
2B: Semien (34) - $26M (same)
SS: Seager (31) - $31.5M ($1M less)
CF: Langford (23) - Serf ($773k in '25)

Role players
OF: Osuna (22) - Serf ($773k in '25)
Duran (26) - Arb1
Smith (27) - Arb1

Bubble
DH: Pederson (33) - $18.5M (same)
1B: Burger (29) - Arb1 ($773K in '25)
3B: Jung (27) - Arb1 ($773K in '25)
RF: Adolis (32) - Arb3 ($10.5M in '25)
_C: Heim (30) - Arb3 ($4.75M in '25)

Losses
Moore and Tellez

Other guy:
Helman (29) - Serf

What does it look like:
_C: Higgy (35)
1B: Burger (29)
2B: Semien (34)
3B: Jung (27)
SS: Seager (31)

LF: Osuna (22)
CF: Langford (23)
RF: Adolis (32)

Bench
Duran (26)
Smith (27)
DH: Pederson (33)
_C: Heim (30)
Helman (29)

Not sure we can dump Pederson. Jung, Adolis, and Heim are all going to be hard Arb cases. These guys could all be huge contributors in 2026, and they could all be pouty boys if they lose their Arb.

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Evan Carter? Dude is going to be one of our top players if he can stay healthy. Pencil in Carter in the outfield with Langford plus a free agent. Adolis won't be here, and I don't see Osuna being an every day player just yet.

45G
63G

Ironically... Carter and Osuna played the same number of games in '25.

Osuna hit .297, .748 OPS in 23G September. I think he has taken the necessary step to be considered a reliable option as a low-cost option.

Carter is a legit MLB OF'er who should start in CF

Langford-Carter-Adolis is how I'd like to see it. Knowing Adolis is likely traded. But Varter has a lot of repairs made that are building up. His long-term back issues are my concern. But, ok... let's keep him in mind.

I like Freeman (24). I did kinda forget him... although, I think he'll be fighting for a role.

He went .228, .258 OBP, .600 OPS. He had an OPS+ of 76. That's a huge drop from Jung and/or Burger. Certainly not Seager/Semien.

Osuna (22), Duran (26), Helman (29), Freeman (24), Smith (27)

If we go young and development, one lineup might look like:

Langford (22) - Carter (22) - Duran (26)
Freeman (24) - Seager - Semien - Smith (27)
Higgy (35)

Dump: Jung (27), Burger (29), Heim (30), Pederson (33)

Sandler was just on 105.3 and said his guess is the Rangers will end up just over the luxury tax threshold, When discussing spending for next year, he basically said the same things we heard 12 months ago about resetting the tax penalty.

That really brings CY's disastrous trade deadline into focus.

Ag Since 83 said:

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Sandler was just on 105.3 and said his guess is the Rangers will end up just over the luxury tax threshold, When discussing spending for next year, he basically said the same things we heard 12 months ago about resetting the tax penalty.

That really brings CY's disastrous trade deadline into focus.

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So did we finally get some clarity as to whether the Rangers are over/under the CBT for the season? Our season is over, so any bonus payout amounts should be finalized, as none are them are going to qualify for a post-season bonus related payment.

After the trades, everyone thought we were for sure over the CBT. Then later there were some reports that we may not actually be over the CBT. Maybe some of those later reports were bogus.

There's still awards bonuses. Evo and deGrom's Cy Young votes bonuses are the ones that stick out. They won't be huge bonuses, but it's something. Not sure if any players have Gold Glove bonuses that might come good, although can't imagine anyone winning one despite the historically good defense.

Since the various reports are all over the place about whether or not they are above it, I'm not ruling anything out until the official announcement.

Thought about it, but figured it didn't need to be mentioned

Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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What about Silver Slugger bonuses? Do we expect any of those?

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Mr Gigem said:

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MLB Team Tax Tracker

Rangers finished roughly $2mil under the $241mil tax threshold

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Well that is good news then. If we had exceeded it, that would make the penalty for exceeding it next year even more (plus draft pick related penalties at some point too I think). That would at least let us reset and start fresh again.

Skip Schumaker
Michael Young
Brad Ausmus


Out of Left Field Candidates
Jay Johnson
Mike Bianco
Tony Vitello
David Murphy
Ozzie Guillen
Josh Holliday

The awards bonuses are added in and I read they projected a couple hundred thousand over the tax. Just brutal.

Next year's skip?

NEWS: Ron Washington and Ray Montgomery will not return as Angels manager in 2026, a source told @TheAthletic.

Still no confirmed information regarding Perry Minasian.

The Angels will have a new manager next year.

— Sam Blum (@SamBlum3) September 30, 2025