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For anyone with a subscription to the Athletic, Adrian Beltre comes in at 52 in one writer's countdown of the top 100 players in MLB history.

https://theathletic.com/1568085/2020...adrian-beltre/

Another nugget that's fun to read about - a recap of how and why Trout is the GOAT of the 2010's but their team has sucked.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...n-playoff-game

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Old 04-08-2020, 06:21 AM   #2
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That espn article was a good read.
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That espn article was a good read.
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Wow, 52 seems very, very high.
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Wow, 52 seems very, very high.
I definitely agree.. Love Beltre but I'd have a hard time putting him that high. The reality was that he was only a good player throughout most of his career. Yes, he had a great 7 year stretch towards the end of his career.. I love Beltre. His WAR is extremely high.. this is obviously what gets him high on the list. However, he was rarely one of the best 2-3 players in the game at any point in his career. His greatness in large part is his long career. He played at a high level for 20 years. I guess it depends on what you value. A greater peak or more consistency over a long period of time..
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lz8Y3jXhqw

Video about Bengie hitting for the cycle
there was an article about it in the athletic too
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2021 will mark the 5th year in a row the Rangers will miss the playoffs with no end in sight. You can make a solid argument that JD has been the worst GM in baseball since about 2015. The big league team is devoid of talent with no real assets to trade, and the farm system is bottom 5 in baseball with no real game changers on the way up. The rebuild should have started circa 2017 but JD and ownership tried to piecemeal a skinny rebuild which has failed miserably. At least ownership has a new tax subsidized stadium to enjoy.
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Yeah it's not good. And it won't be good for a long while...
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Good thing I don’t have FSSW to watch how terrible they are. JD needs to go. Like already stated this team has no talent or young players in the farm system.
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Is this the peak of the ranger's season, getting to .500 at 3-3?
at least they've cleaned out some of the old guard and made room to get some new blood.
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For years, I would ask if anyone on this team were as good as their counterpart on the WCS teams (I think the answer, across the board, was 'no'). That indicated just how much rebuilding they needed then. NOW, the question is 'who on this roster is a viable major league starter'? A few promising players, but at best the answer is mostly 'don't know'. With little in the farm system or for trades.

How you can remain GM when when those are the questions, and that is the trend, I don't know. I think literally anyone off the street could have done THAT, for free.

Maybe that's the third question: What has JD done in the last...8 years?...that literally anyone off the street couldn't have duplicated, or bettered?
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It's hard to even watch baseball these days with the length per 9 innings being higher than ever before. I believe currently it's sitting at 3 hours and 10 mins per 9 innings. Add that in with knowing your team is trash and has no reasonable hope in the near future and it's downright depressing. Rangers need to fire the GM like yesterday and MLB as a whole needs to revisit changes to bring the time per 9 innings back down to something more reasonable. I don't care if it's having a foul ball limit per at bat reduce the number of times pitchers and hitters can call time. Just bring it back down around 2:30-2:45 max on average.
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As an indication of just where the Ranger's Farm system currently is: Of the top 100 prospects in MLB, the Rangers have 3 of them, and they are ranked #'s 54, 70, and 84. When the Astros were this bad, they created one of the, if not the, best farm systems, and that's where most of their great players of the last few years came from. Rangers? Not looking good there.
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