Merry Christmas Rangers

For this Christmas I’m giving the Texas Rangers some free advice.  I haven’t paid all that much attention to baseball in the past 6 months and I’m not sure how all the Type A/Type B free agents will affect the Rangers draft, but this is a wonderful opportunity to get two players that would really help this team at a fraction of normal costs – so go do it.

Sign – Manny Rameriz (3 years 68 million)
Sign – Pettite (1 year 12 million base with incentives to make 16 million)
Sign – Livan Hernandez – give him a bullpen role with opp. to be your closer. (1 year 4 million)
Sign – Rich Aurilla – (1 $680,000)

This would give the Rangers a fighting chance next year to hit a spark.  And someway/somehow they’re going to have to find a way to make their bullpen better, most likely through trades.  Guys like Frank Catalanotto, Hank Blaylock, Nelson Cruz and some of the so-so bullpen guys need to be put out there by themselves or in a collection to see if they can’t bring two or three reliable bullpen arms.

It hurts me to say it, but they hardly have a clue.  Yet all their wingding fans are in a frenzy over the children on the farm.  The ones who are playing with cows right now are going to be like Barry Bonds was in his early years.  Like Pedro Martinez except with maybe a better fastball.  Yep doesn’t take much to get by as a Ranger fan.

If the fan base doesn’t demand sanity, why would shifting Tom Hicks deviate from his postion of gobbledygook.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a blessed life.