With the additions of Joc Pederson and Jake Burger, plus the return of Evan Carter and Josh Jung from injury, this Rangers lineup should be nasty in 2025. How would you put together the chess pieces? And where will this lineup rank across all of MLB?
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00:00I'm trying to figure out, is Jock better right behind Adolus, left handed bat right behind
00:24Adolus?
00:25I think so, because then you transition to Young.
00:28Younger Berger, this is a great problem to have.
00:32I think I'm going to go Young, but I gotcha.
00:35Young, Berger, and we'll go with Haim for right now, and let's go ahead and put Evan
00:39Carter in center field, even though it could be him, Tavares, Pillar, it could be any of
00:45those.
00:46That right there, dude, is a murderer's row all the way up to Jake Berger.
00:49Jonah Haim, I don't have a lot of, he's got to prove it to me again this year, unfortunately
00:54for him.
00:55If he started to roll and took over a bunch of that spot.
00:57I'm excited about Higgy, I'm excited about Jonah Haim, whenever Jonah Haim's in ball,
01:02whenever he's locked in.
01:04Last year it just looked like there were times where he was just mad at himself, he couldn't
01:08get his swing right, he was swinging too big, he wasn't swinging short enough.
01:11There are lots of different things, so that little spot right there, and then Evan Carter
01:14I have a lot of confidence in, getting on base, doing his thing if he's healthy there
01:18too.
01:19So, Simeon through Jake Berger, murderer's row, I love it, I love that lineup.
01:24I think they're at least a couple spots too low, so CBS does have them in the top 10 of
01:30their lineups heading into opening day.
01:32They've got the Rangers at 10, I would probably move them up to 8 if you still want to slide
01:38them behind the Orioles and Yankees, I get that, but I would put them ahead of the Diamondbacks
01:43and the Padres.
01:44I know people can argue some of these points, but the point is, it feels like it's a really
01:48good lineup, I would probably move it a little bit higher.