http://tinyurl.com/m6gnaay Grant: Rangers have long list of needs heading into off-season (节录) Always the optimist, Rangers manager Ron Washington found something positive to extract from his team’s earlier-than-expected finish. While other contenders are still playing, the Rangers, Washington and general manager Jon Daniels noted this week, they have an extra month to start preparing for 2014. Good thing, too. The Rangers’ list of needs is long. 在提早结束的球季里 值得乐观看待的是我们多一个月可以准备2014 而我们今年需要补的洞相当多 They may need to make a change at first base. They need to untangle the web of middle infielders. They need an outfielder, a DH and a catcher, too. And they will have less payroll flexibility to work with than in the last couple of years. Fortunately, the pitching needs are relatively small, perhaps for the first time ever. 我们或许需要换个一垒手，并且解开二游间的三角矛盾 我们需要一个外野手，一个指定打击，一个捕手 虽然我们在薪资上的比过去两年缺少弹性 幸运的是我们投手阵容的问题前所未有的小 The front office: Throw some daggers! They must act more quickly and decisively and be prepared to take more risk than makes them comfortable. While the Rangers were surveying the market early last off-season, two of their top targets, outfielder Torii Hunter and catcher Russell Martin, went off the boards quickly. Detroit may have overpaid Hunter and Pittsburgh may have given Martin more security than the Rangers were willing to give, but they ended up with solid players. Both are still alive in the postseason. So is pitcher Zack Greinke, who got more from the Dodgers than the Rangers were willing to offer. “Those deals worked out well for those clubs,” Rangers GM Jon Daniels said. “They got deals we weren’t willing to do at the time. I don’t look and think we should have moved quicker. We were ready; they got better deals. I don’t have any issue with that decision. “The downside of not playing now is obvious: you’re not playing,” Daniels added. “The upside is there is additional time to prepare. We’re going to make sure we utilize that.” The Rangers must make better use of that time. They have fewer dollars to spend this winter. The market appears to be thinner. And, if last winter was any indication, the majority of signings happen in a more compressed amount of time. As if this needed saying: making sure inter-office politics don’t play a role is absolutely essential. 为了避免 overpaid 去年我们错过了 Russell Martin、Torii Hunter、Zack Greinke 这些球员都成为球队中的稳定基石并帮助他们的球队打进季後赛 如果去年给了我们什麽教训，那就是大咖将在更短时间内被签走 今年，我们必须承担风险、出手更快更果决! The middle infield: Make a decision already The Rangers need to either find a spot for Jurickson Profar to play every day or trade him. Nothing else makes sense. They simply can’t repeat the situation that played out this season. Profar received close to a year’s worth of service time (which is valuable), but about a half season of playing time (which may have inhibited his growth). “It was a challenging role for a young player,” Daniels said. “I thought [Ron Washington] did a good job of keeping him engaged and utilizing him as he felt he needed to. The question we have to answer is offensively had he been playing more would he have produced more and would we feel differently? “I think generally speaking we would have felt that way. He needs to get better in certain areas, and I believe he will. As for a role, it’s way early to assess that.” 让Profar先发，不然就交易他!! Profar今年得到一年年资，却只上了一半时间，这状况不能再发生了 一年的年资是很珍贵的，但他却不能固定在场上累积经验值 To find regular playing time, it means either moving second baseman Ian Kinsler to a new position or to a new team. Kinsler balked at the former last year. As for the latter: With $62 million tied up in him for the next four seasons, the Rangers would have to eat a significant amount of contract or sell for a low, low return. The issue with Kinsler is more cloudy than ever. As a second baseman, he’s always had above-average value, but that has dipped in the last two seasons. Much of that value was based on his power and speed for his position, but in 2013, he experienced drops in both areas. The Rangers have holes at first and left field. Moving Kinsler to a new position — and taking a more forceful approach — could be considered. If he is moved to a run-producing spot, such as first base or left field, his value might tumble further. 如果要将Profar摆上先发，这代表Kinsler需要新的位置或新的球队 Kinsler主要的价值在他的炮瓦与速度，这在今年都退步许多 想交易Kinsler，我们必须吃下大部分合约，或选择拿回一袋球 至於把他移到一垒或左外野，是值得考虑的选项，但可能让他身价暴跌 First base: Rangers will need more production Mitch Moreland has had three full seasons to prove he’s as good as he looked in the second half of 2010. While he continues to improve as a fielder, he has gone backward offensively. That’s not a good trend for a position that is offensive in nature and should be alarming for a team that struggled on offense. “We need to improve our offense,” GM Jon Daniels said when asked if first base needed to be addressed. “That’s probably a better way to look at it across the board as a team and not spot by spot. Relative to the rest of the club, Mitch was one of the more productive guys, but that’s not a great qualifier because we weren’t as productive as we needed to be. “We do need more run production out of first base than we had,” Daniels added. “We certainly don’t want to give up on him, but it’s an area we’d like to see improvement.” Moreland在守备上不断有进步，但打击却走下坡 JD:跟其他球员比起来，Mitch算是有打击贡献的，我们并不想放弃他 JD:只是在一垒这个位置，我们需要更多产出 If the Rangers opt to go in a different direction, first base may be one of the more intriguing spots on the free-agent market, even for a team needing that first baseman to hit from the left side. Cuban defector Jose Dariel Abreu is already drawing lots of interest at workouts in the Dominican Republic but may command a contract in excess of $10 million per year. If he’s not an option for a team that will have to watch its expenditures more closely, another Cuban first baseman might be. Kendrys Morales, a switch-hitter is also free. Morales might be slightly more affordable than Abreu and is more athletic. Justin Morneau and James Loney are also options, though Morneau may be on the decline, and Loney has never hit 20 homers in a season. One other name: Toronto’s Adam Lind, a career .327 hitter in Arlington with 12 homers in 119 at-bats. Toronto holds a $7.5 million option for 2014. Even if the Blue Jays pick up the option, he might be a trade target as a first baseman or DH. 今年的一垒手有不少好料 古巴强打Jose Abreu 及便宜一些的 Kendrys Morales 另外的选项有 Justin Morneau James Loney Adam Lind Left field: Speed or power? If you are looking to improve run production, you look to the corners of the field: first and third base, left and right field. Like first base, left field was an offensive abyss for the Rangers in 2013. Among AL players with at least 400 plate appearances in the outfield, David Murphy’s .656 OPS ranked 32nd of 34. Murphy was supplanted as the regular left fielder by Craig Gentry for the final 10 days of the season when the Rangers rallied. Gentry has a legitimate offensive weapon in speed and his defense is top-tier, but questions remain about his ability to contribute enough offense to be a regular, let alone a run-producer. This might be the one spot on the field the Rangers could fill internally, either by re-signing Nelson Cruz and moving him across the field, or by giving Gentry and Engel Beltre, a left-handed hitter, a chance to split time. There is also the possibility of moving Ian Kinsler here. Both Gentry and Beltre are speed guys with excellent defensive abilities. Beltre is the one minor league position player who might — might — be ready to contribute in the majors. He’s also out of minor league options. Beltre has power potential, but did not produce any results in his brief time in the majors this season. 今年的左外野是个大洞，Murphy完全失常 Gentry有速度、选球与一流守备，但打点能力是个问题 Engel Beltre也是速度-守备型的选手，他有长打潜力但目前没有展现出来 移动Kinsler和签回Cruz也是左外野的可能选项 左外野是个可以从内部补起来的位置 Perhaps the top two free agents on the market — Shin-Soo Choo and Jacoby Ellsbury — are both excellent outfielders and would fit nicely in the Rangers ’ lineup as leadoff men, but they are probably out of the club’s price range. Both are looking at deals in excess of $15 million per year. That would eat up at least half of the Rangers’ available dollars. It would also require some shuffling of outfield responsibilities. It would be difficult to make it fit and fill all the other holes. There will also be great interest in seeing if Miami will consider a Giancarlo Stanton deal, but the drop in Profar’s value after 2013 may make it hard to construct a worthwhile package — even if emperor Jeffrey Loria is willing to be fleeced. 秋信守及Ellsbury都很棒 但签下他们会用掉超过一半筹码，这会让其他的洞补不起来 而Giancarlo Stanton也因为Profar的跌价而更难交易到了 Catcher: McCann can There would seem to be a clear-cut pecking order here: Brian McCann. A.J. Pierzynski. Everybody else. McCann appears to be the Rangers’ top free-agent target. He’s a left-handed hitter with power and a powerful voice inside the clubhouse and on the field. He’s liable to command $15 million a year, which would also eat up a huge portion of the Rangers’ available money, but if the club is going to spend big, it would prefer to spend big up the middle of the diamond. McCann can hit in the middle of the lineup and might be more ideal as a No. 5 hitter than was Pierzynski. McCann, 30, is seven years younger than Pierzynski. He has a .350 career on-base percentage which would make him more of a fit for the disciplined approach of hitting instructor Dave Magadan than Pierzynski’s swing-at-everything style. If McCann gets dollars above the Rangers’ range, though, Pierzynski would be an excellent fallback. It’s likely the Rangers’ could bring back the Pierzynski-Geovany Soto duo for less than $10 million total. McCann显然是条子在自由市场里的重要目标! 他是左打炮，而且能成为球队内的领导者 他会要求一年$15M，吃掉我们预算的很大一部分，但McCann值得 AJP则是我们追不到McCann的备案 我们有可能用$10M以内带回AJP-Soto这个组合 --

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