Episode 1171: Brice Paterik discusses how the Rangers' title defense stacks up, Josh Jung's season ending, and the final games at the Colosseum.
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It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. The Rangers title defense is officially dead. But just how bad a job did the Rangers do of defending that title. Compare that to the last champions and look at this last series ever in the Oakland Coliseum. All that and more on this episode of Lockdown Rangers. Let's get into it. You are Lockdown Rangers, your daily Texas Rangers podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. You are locked onto the World Series Champion Texas Rangers. I'm Bryce Padrick, a cripplingly addicted Texas Rangers fan, covering this team for 11 seasons, including all six as the founder and host of this podcast. Thank you so much for making Lockdown Rangers your first listen every single day. If you're not already, you can follow me on Twitter @padrick, you can follow the show @lockdownrangers, hit subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and on YouTube, where the best way you can help grow the show is to comment nearly any single thing below. Now, before we get into the Rangers attempt at a title defense and how it stacks up with former reigning champions and Josh Young having a season ending entry and the last games last major league games, at least for now, ever played at the Oakland Coliseum, this episode is brought to you by booking.com booking. Yeah, the Wright State can make you a fan of any city, even your baseball rivals book today on booking.com, the official combination partner of major league baseball get the booking.com app today. Now the Rangers title defense officially died this weekend against the Mariners. Their playoff hopes are officially at zero and this team is just playing out the string. Not only the Rangers playoff hopes dead, also their hopes of having a winning season are officially dead with their 82nd loss of the year. The Rangers now will have had a winning season just one time since the start of 2017 after doing it basically every year from 2010, heck, excuse me, from 2009 until 2016 without that 2014 year. You want to go ahead and throw out that mess of a year. But this year has been equally a mess. The Rangers had incredibly high hopes for their season. The whole blueprint of the season was, okay, maybe this offense can carry us like it did last year while we wait for those big arms on the injured list to come back in Max Scherzer in Tyler Mally in Jacob de Grom. And well, at points, they all came back most later than initially anticipated. De Grom was hoped to return around August. I was hoping early August ended up being not till September, early September. Max Scherzer was initially supposed to come back in June, then was supposed to come back in May, then did come back in June, went back on the IL after saying, nope, I'm not going to need an IL stint, came back for one start and then went back on the IL and was done only nine starts from him. Only three starts from Tyler Mally who had a couple of decent outings, but got absolutely rocked in his last start back and did not see the field again. Not a whole lot that the Rangers got from those three. Granted, the two starts they've gotten from Jacob de Grom have been very good, but they have been a combined six and a third innings. And not exactly what you were hoping for from your ace to come back with this team in playoff contention to put them, you know, over the edge, give them that, you know, ace in your literally ace tucked up your sleeve in the final few weeks of that postseason run. Alas, the Rangers were pretty much out of it from the midpoint of August. And the pitching that they had was fine. It was just fine. It's funny that this bullpen was such an incredible disaster last year, and the Rangers answered to solve it. Actually, really the only thing they did in free agency besides bringing in Mally, at least the only thing they did of consequence, was to sign two guys, two older guys coming off of okay seasons to, you know, just shore up the back end of their bullpen and curviates and David Robertson. And those two were absolutely fantastic. They pretty much fixed it. The only problem was everybody else was not great. The clerk had a not great year. The Rangers got 16 whole innings from Josh Bors, although he was very good in those 16 innings. When you get more innings out of Yuri Rodriguez, when Josh Bors, it's not exactly a situation setting you up for success. But obviously, the whole thing all year long, if you listen to one episode of this podcast all year, I'm pretty sure I've said it on every single episode that the offense was indeed the problem. A bunch of guys having career years last year, and this year having career worst years, I mean, just truly awful years from Jonah Heim, from Marcus Simeon, and from medolas Garcia as well. Also, not to mention the injuries to Josh Young, I'll get to what his season ending injury means for him and the concerns that I have about him moving forward. Now, you even got a breakout year from Josh Smith, who was an all-star caliber player for that first half. And still, you couldn't do much of anything when the whole rest of this offense was to put it nicely mid. They were really below mid. They were bad. This was a bad offense this year. And it's not necessarily something that the Rangers saw coming. I mean, you can criticize this off this, you know, front office for not spending more as the title defense. You can be frustrated with not bringing back Jordan Montgomery. We've all seen how that's worked out in Arizona. Had he just signed a regular deal with the Rangers and had a normal off season and had normal spring training? What have you been better? Maybe. But that wouldn't have fixed this offense. This offense was the thing that carried them last year, and it was supposed to be the thing that would carry them this year. But the fall off from so many guys is not something I think the Rangers would have expected. I mean, there weren't all that many bets the Rangers were actually in on this off season. I don't think that signing JD Martinez at DH for most of the season would have put this team over the top, although although the fact that the Rangers, you know, most use DH this year as Travis Jankowski and his 522 OPS, maybe that would have been a different story. Maybe it would have been a different story if the Rangers weren't relying so heavily on Wyatt Langford who has been amazing in June, amazing in September and outside of that, not particularly special and he'd be the first one to tell you that. Relying so heavily on Evan Carter, who played 45 games this year and was playing through an injury in a lot of those games probably longer than he should have and then had the back injury that just did not heal and eventually ended up costing him a season. Josh Young with the hit by pitch in the fourth freaking game of the year. And now he is done for the year with the chronic inflammation in his broken wrist that took forever to heal with such a complicated surgery. It was just the worst, absolute worst place that a batter could get hit is right there on that wrist exposed, not even by 109 mile an hour line drive, like the line drive that Jorge Solar hit that broke his thumb. In August of last year, just a freak accident and a difficult surgery and a difficult recovery. And Josh Young only plays 46 games this year, just one more than Evan Carter and the exact same number of games as Robbie Grossman, which credit Robbie Grossman, he was with the Rangers, expected him to be. Now, should they have traded an actual prospect to get him as opposed to just bringing him back last year? Maybe, probably, but this isn't the only team to have a faulty title defense. Thankfully, with the things that are on the horizon for next year with those young guys, hopefully a healthy Josh Young, a healthy Evan Carter, a sophomore surge from Wyatt Langford, which is kind of what I'm expecting, given what he's done to end this year and how much he's improved and how quickly, and not to mention, you know, the growth of Kamalt Rocker and Jack White are making progress, and Cody Bradford, who also missed most of this season, which is not an insignificant injury, it's not the only team to, you know, fall short in terms of a title offense. There have been plenty of teams the last years that have finished with a losing record after winning the World Series. Teams like, well, the 2020 nationals in the, in the COVID year, 25 and the 34 season for them, or 34 record for them, and they also had a losing record, nearly 100 losses the year after that, and so they didn't just immediately bounce back. I mean, the Royals were a 500 team after they won the World Series. That's one that I'm going to look further into in the next segment talking about what the Rangers need to do to avoid being just a one and done champion. Boston Red Sox in 2014 finished, you know, 20 games under 500, or 10 games under 500, I should say, 71 and 91. The Giants did it back in 2013. The Cardinals did it in 2007, and the Angels did it in 2003. The Rangers are not the only team to fall short after a miraculous World Series run that I don't think a whole lot of us are coming, at least heading into October last year, but hey, flags fly forever, but you'd like to have multiple flags and coming up and look at why the Rangers need to avoid a cautionary tale in the Kansas City Royals and why they could end up just like them. I'm talking about that and more right after this for sponsors. This show is brought to you by eBay Motors. Passion and driving patience. 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I was excited about the future with you know two young outfielders that were set to be potential superstars at Evan Carter and Wyatt Langford with a young core of guys like you know Josh Young with you know what we saw from Jonah Heim last year being an all star what we saw from Nathaniel Lowe the last couple of years and of course your tandem star duo up the middle of the best middle infield and baseball which I'm not entirely sure is the best middle infield and baseball anymore. Maybe it is I haven't really looked at too many second baseman and how they're doing this year but still this team that looked like it was set up to win for years and years to come and there is a danger that this team becomes a one and done champion there's a danger like that with everybody. I mean it happened with the Nationals in 2019 a team that had many young superstars I mean many I had Trey Turner who was 26 at the time and you know he was an absolute star and you know they end up trading him away Victor Robles was you know a burgeoning star at 745 OPS as a 22 year old has taken him a while to really come into his own really hasn't been until like this year that he's had anywhere near the success that he did his rookie year and of course they had you know 19 year old Juan Soto with a 950 OPS as a 20 year old um 150 games that year and he was absolutely phenomenal but they also had a star ace in of course Max Scherzer not to mention a homegrown ace in Steven Strasburg and they also had Patrick Corbin all three of those guys were absolutely fantastic that year and well they gave Steven Strasburg a massive contract and he was a pitcher and he fell apart. Patrick Corbin has been durable but terrible ever since then and Max Scherzer was basically Max Scherzer from that point on but it just wasn't quite enough for them they traded away Max Scherzer and Trey Turner in a package that I still can't believe from the return that they got for a season and a half of Trey Turner and half a season of Max Scherzer is still kind of insane to me but I mean that was an intentional choice that the Nationals made with Steven Strasburg being you know what he was with the you know two of their three aces co-aces at the time falling apart due to injury or just bad and also losing Anthony Rendon in free agency which looks like a net positive for them given what's happened with him with the Angels but a team that was supposed to be also there for the long haul was the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Royals after they won in 2015 I mean they had a young core it looked like it was there to stay now the pitching was a bit suspect and that ended up you know holding true for years to come but the young core was there they had a 25 year old Salvador Perez then a 25 year old Eric Hosmer a 26 year old Mike Mustakis they had Alex Gordon his prime Lorenzo Cain had a seven more season that year he was still on the right side of 30 I mean heck even Kendrick Morales was still relatively young at that point only 32 years old that year I mean they looked like they were built to last for a while and they gave Eric Hosmer and Mike Mustakis massive contracts that ended up being just huge huge albatrosses Alex Gordon quickly kind of fell off Lorenzo Cain was fine but nowhere near what he was that year and they just didn't have the pitching to sustain it and they had young Yordana Ventura who was supposed to be their ace of the future and he tragically passed away not that many years later and their incredible bullpen that was really the reason for their success those two years where they went to the world serious and backed back seasons a shocker a bullpen didn't hold up as a long-term successful strategy to build a dynasty Vulpens are fickle even the best ones they're always very very fickle and the fact that they was amazing two years in a row is honestly pretty incredible the Rangers are hoping to not be that there is reason to believe okay they need some sort of bounce back from you know Jonah high mostly and Adolas Garcia mostly if they can pick two guys to get back to about what their career averages can be actually I might pick more of Marcus Simian and Adolas Garcia of guys who have fallen off this year and then get back to about where they've been in an average season career not not even having a career season but just an average season because Jonah Heim offensively has been terrible this year I mean defensively he hasn't been super great as well that they know those numbers aren't overall very impressive but when you look at how it stacks up to the league average I mean he's still got it on base in near 360 which is about his career mark I mean he's got only 13 home runs this year the power has been down but it's also been down around the league so Nathaniel low bouncing back I feel like is a pretty decently safe bet Josh Smith I don't necessarily anticipate him having another three and a half war season next year although defensively he is a a great defensive player offensively I mean I don't think he's ever gonna have the power numbers to be in above average you know all-star player again he's just he just does not have that in him and he's put together great played appearances this year and without him the Rangers would be in a much much deeper hole but they've got the young pieces and not only that they've got young pieces on both sides of the ball to be excited about you got Wyatt Langford this year who less than a year after being drafted is gonna put up a three and a half war season as a rookie as an everyday player go from a pretty suspect defender out there in the outfield to at least above average not quite gold Glover but maybe fringe gold Glover at corner to maybe he might even be average defensively in center field I mean Evan Carter's back injury the second season in the back injury he's had and he hasn't even turned 22 yet or I think he just turned 22 a couple weeks ago it's definitely concerning about how long he is going going to hold up and we still have a question of can he hit lefties that's still a big big question with Evan Carter and Josh Young I am the last one to label any player injury prone but this has just been a a season long frustrating injury that he has you know suffered it could happen to anybody and he's had a bunch of random little freak injuries from broken toe to a shoulder injury to getting hit right in the thumb with a line drive that would have broken anybody's thumb to getting hit right on the worst part of the body with a pitch with his wrist just completely exposed and it just ruined his entire season and ended up coming back and looking half decent I mean the first couple weeks were a little rough for him but you know he put together 40 something games 42 games after coming off the IL I mean it took him much much longer to recover because that surgery was so complicated because the recovery was so complicated but still it's not just these young hitters that there's reason to look at next year and say okay without having that month longer that they're playing that most of them hadn't gone through that kind of a grind of going to the World Series and seeing how long it takes and how much longer your season is and how much shorter your off season is and also they've got some for once young pitching to get really genuinely excited about I mean Jacob the ground coming back he is not young pitching but the Rangers have had very very little of him since they assigned him they had that whole first month in 2023 which was awesome they've had a couple of starts here and they'll have one more before the end of this season but adding him to the room hopefully fully healthy or at least mostly healthy I mean heck even a hundred to 120 innings of Jacob Grom is so much better than the 30th that they got last year or the I don't know 15 at most no 12 at most I think they'll get this year they also have Kamala rocker who is a breakout potential star pitcher next year at the very least a solid member of the rotation and that's mentioned the progress of Jack Leiter this year he has made big steps forward and even if you're not a believer in Jack Leiter as a starting pitcher Cody Bradford has been sensational this year I mean especially compared to the expectations for him what was expected from this rotation and just what the Rangers have produced in terms of starting pitching over the last decade Cody Bradford has been you know I don't want to say a miracle but it kind of feels like it at this point with how poorly the Rangers have developed their own starting pitching and not to mention just those guys but all the young guys on the farm that have been having great seasons like Alejandro Rosario like Winston Santos like Emilio Antonio and like a dozen other guys that have just made big big strides the Rangers have reason to believe that they can be successful in the long term now will they bounce back next year and pull the whole Bruce Boji you know even year or excuse me odd year nonsense as a member of the AL whereas when he was in the NL he could only win world championships in the even years only time will tell about that but what we do know is that this year has been an absolute failure for the most part there've been some bright spots if you want to look for it but on the whole this has been an incredibly frustrating year the Rangers will admit it Chris Young will admit Bruce Boji everybody in this organization knows that you know just because they didn't win back-to-back championships just because they didn't you know get there I mean this is not that was not the expectation just be competitive year in year out at least have winning record and they're not going to do that this year and that's frustrating and that's failure and they're going to have to do a lot right this offseason have a lot right go right for him next year to get themselves back in contention but still even though it's been incredibly frustrating there is a fan base that is in a much much worse place in the Texas Rangers and that is where the Rangers are headed tonight to Oakland to play the final major league games in the Oakland Coliseum we're gonna talk about what that means for the Rangers and why it's just bad for baseball but John Fisher is done all that and more right after this read from our sponsors this episode of lock on Raiders is brought to you by booking.com booking. 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Now the Rangers tonight head into Oakland for the final three major league baseball games at the Oakland Coliseum they will be against the Thumpin A's who have been a really frisky team in the last couple months basically since the all-star break I mean the A's bang they absolutely bang the baseball over the fence they are a very good offensive team with just a lot of power hitters they might end up having let's see one two three four five different guys Galoff is a little bit of stretch but they right now have four different players with more than 20 home runs which is not something I saw coming in the least J.J. Blude is been a fantastic player in center field Lawrence Butler has been one of the best players in baseball since the calendar turned to July and Brent Rooker has been absolutely phenomenal this season absolutely phenomenal 937 OPS and 38 home runs the guy has just been absolutely on fire and as we all know Shay Langelier's former Keller stand out just absolutely murders the Rangers so I wouldn't be shocked if Shay Langelier's got over that 30 home run plateau he's too shy of it in this three game series against the Rangers but alas you heard me right these are the last major league games at Oakland Coliseum next year the A's will be playing in the triple A affiliate of the giants Sacramento for the next couple of years until they get whatever sorted out with their stadium building in Las Vegas which is already a nightmare as has been really everything with Oakland the last few years and yesterday the A's owner John Fisher wrote an open letter to the public and one of the most just completely disingenuous and downright deceitful moves I mean filled with so many lies I would read you the thing but I don't think I can read it without physically retching I'm talking about how oh we tried so hard to win here and so hard to keep Oakland here and oh it's if I could you know talk to each and every single one of you when this man has repeatedly hid and dodged every attempt by the media to get him to answer for his crimes to answer for his injustices to answer for this stupidity and clear boneheadedness of every single turn of this move to just force Oakland to Vegas this is now the third professional team that the city of Oakland will have lost in the last decade with the Warriors moving the least far they just moved to the other side of the Bay in San Francisco but still that is a big loss they also lost the the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas and now they are going to lose the A's their last team to Las Vegas as well I mean John Fisher is the failed son of a billionaire inherited the JCPenney fun and it's an absolutely nothing with it I mean he has done absolutely nothing to try and improve this team I mean Moneyball is an interesting concept and I feel like everyone a lot of fans in baseball try and you know imagine themselves as a GM and so they want to you know make the right spend thrifty moves and as a result we have ended up praising teams like the A's and the Rays who just don't spend any money at all as if that's a good thing for baseball no wedding on the margins is a good thing for baseball but you also have to spend money at least commensurate with you know what a major league team should spend and not just pocket all that money and try and get all the taxpayers to pay for your stadiums and everything and just run your team mercilessly into the ground until the darn loyal fans that you do have end up not coming anymore because prices keep raising the concession prices keep raising the price of everything keeps raising while the payroll gets lower and lower and lower and the investment in the team gets lower and lower and lower and lower and it's just running one of the premier franchises in major league baseball into the ground well we've all seen this coming over the last eight years and this is not just oh well it's Oakland so who cares no it can happen to anybody and this is the blueprint has been laid the other owners are willing to just sit back and say yep that's fine you can tank your team into the ground just so you can get more money from somewhere else and make more money somewhere else and make promises to a city that doesn't know how much of a cheapskate you are saying oh no once we're in Las Vegas then I'll spend money on this team then I'll spend money on the payroll and all these things that I hadn't done for you know nearly a decade in Oakland no he won't and don't be surprised if the Chicago White Sox are next when we all see what an abject failure they have been this year how much of a miserable embarrassment they have been I mean already tied the Cleveland they're headed for the Cleveland spiders of that record I don't think they're going to get to 130 something losses 30 to 120 and their owner Jerry Riesderv saying yeah we're going to cut payroll because that's what this team needs we need to be a little more thrifty he's going to take one of the worst teams in major league history and try and make it even worse the next year he's already made threats about leaving Chicago for years and now he might just finally get to end up having his way and he won't be looking like as much of a villain as moving the A's out of Oakland which the A's have been in Oakland since 1968 1968 how many of you have even been alive since then the White Sox have been in Chicago for significantly longer than that and they have been one of the premier franchises in the sport one of the flagship franchises in the sport granted they've been kind of terrible and mid the last couple of years but a lot of that is due to honor and confidence I mean a bad owner and a hands-on bad cheap owner can ruin any sports franchise I mean just look at the Dallas Cowboys and what they've done since Jerry Jones took over I will say a lot I have said and probably will continue to say a lot of disparaging things about the range owner Ray Davis but one thing that I won't say is that he's you know completely cheap or that he is completely hands-on he will spend the money he will not tank this team in his ground this franchise and the ground and try and move it somewhere else just to make a quick buck I respect that about him he will at least give the Rangers a decent payroll despite I think overblown concerns with the lack of TV money and all kinds of other things that he didn't spend this offseason coming off of a world series championship trying to cut payroll it's not a great look I understand it with his progatives and I think they're wrong as a fan but I understand them and at the very least he's not doing this to the Rangers I can't imagine what I would be doing if someone bought the Rangers purposely ran them into the ground and the rest of Major League Baseball just said yep there's nothing you can do about it it is horrendous for the sport what is happening to Oakland and it sets a terrifying president that could happen to literally anyone Ray Davis isn't going to be around forever his family is not super involved so he might end up after if he passes away they might end up selling someone else some other random billionaire like John Fisher who wants to do this exact same thing I mean heck Mark Cuban who I thought would own the mass forever sold off last year and their owner their new owner has a lot of ties Vegas and there have been some rumors circling around that maybe they would end up being moved to Las Vegas moving a franchise with that kind of history is incredibly bad for the sport and it sets such a dangerous president it could literally happen anywhere so just remember that next time you're making fun of Oakland for not having this and that the other and saying oh well maybe their fans should have shown up no this is a top down thing and as frustrated as I have been with Ray Davis at least he's not John Fisher that is one of the higher compliments that I can give them in that's going to do it for today's show thank you all so much for listening and subscribing and until next time don't forget to enjoy world series champion Texas Rangers baseball a prime members you can listen to this lock-down podcast add free on Amazon music download the Amazon music app today
