The Rangers have a closer problem, and their 2024 solution won't work in 2025. Kirby Yates has now signed with the Dodgers, leaving Texas still in need of a 9th inning option. K&C discuss them losing Yates and who they should pursue now, either through free agency or a trade.
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00:00It's time for some baseball nuggets with Mike Masek.
00:19Yeah, so here we go.
00:21So you're defeated and I get why you're defeated.
00:24I am also irritated by this.
00:27I loved Kirby.
00:28Yeah.
00:29I loved Kirby Puckett and I loved Kirby Yates.
00:32And Kirby Yates is signed with the Dodgers.
00:34We still do not have, as far as my Twitter, I cannot find details on the contract.
00:39One year, two year.
00:40Yeah.
00:41They're still pending physical.
00:42Yeah.
00:43He's physically fine.
00:44He's a little guy who throws great.
00:48So I think you're all of us right now, though.
00:51Not only like when Corey said that in crosstalk, I was like, please be with the Rangers.
00:55Please be.
00:56I knew it wasn't Rangers the way he was doing it because I would have seen, I would have
00:59read his body language better, and I would have never thought it was the Dodgers.
01:03They just signed Tanner Scott.
01:04For 18 million a year.
01:07Yeah.
01:08So the Dodgers, everybody on Twitter, I was just trying to look for information on Yates'
01:13contract, which we don't have yet.
01:14But everybody on Twitter who was hoping that they would get Kirby Yates, obviously a lot
01:19of Ranger fans and Ranger people, but, you know, there are a lot of teams that could
01:24have used a Kirby Yates.
01:26Yeah.
01:27And.
01:28Like us.
01:29The two top relievers on the market in the last, I don't know, 72 hours, whatever it
01:34is.
01:35So they got Tanner Scott, who I believe was rated as the seventh best reliever in all
01:39of baseball on the top 10 right now.
01:40And Kirby Yates, who is rated as the eighth, which I thought was a little bit low, but
01:43I get.
01:44And one of them's just going to be the setup guy.
01:46Yeah, they're going to.
01:47Well, maybe they go back and get Kenley Jansen and he's the closer and they're the seventh
01:51and eighth inning guys.
01:52And that's that's strongly that's a strong possibility.
01:55By the way, I like to tell you at this point, I do think Kenley Jansen is going to sign
01:59with the Dodgers.