One week.
One week from now, the Winter Meetings will be over.
We may be talking in a week about a lineup facelift that came out of nowhere, or recapping a week that was headlined, at least from a news standpoint, by a player from the back of the book moving on from the Rangers in the AA phase of the Rule 5 Draft.
Sometime over the next week, maybe the medically cleared Colby Lewis will have signed a deal for 2016, somewhere.
And maybe the medically cleared Cliff Lee will have, too.
Not to mention the recently jettisoned Neftali Feliz, Craig Gentry, Roman Mendez, Lisalverto Bonilla, and Joey Butler, whose 2015 teams have given team and player opportunities to move on.
Same goes for Henderson Alvarez, Pedro Alvarez, Chris Carter, Al Alburquerque, Steve Cishek, Ryan Cook, Aaron Crow, Mike Minor, Will Middlebrooks, Tyler Flowers, and the rehabbing Greg Holland.
One week from now, your 2016 Bound Edition might have arrived in the mail (preorders start shipping in a few days), and I might have firm details on the Book Release Party to share with you — plus an announcement about a new Newberg Report venture that might interest you.
The coming week will probably feature a handful of stories about how the Orioles (especially if Chris Davis departs) are far too right-handed and how the Rangers are far too left-handed and, man, Baltimore loves former Rangers and remember how Texas (catchers Laird, Saltalamacchia, Teagarden, Ramirez) and Boston (pitchers Buchholz, Masterson, Bowden, Bard, Hagadone) were absolute locks to get together on a deal in 2008?
One week from now, I probably will have sent out a stack of TROT COFFEY reports, maybe even more than once a day as time allows and as flying rumors warrant, touching on the latest speculation connecting starting pitchers or right-handed bats or experienced catchers on some level to Texas.
And maybe some regarding teams coming after Mitch Moreland or Derek Holland or Shawn Tolleson or Luke Jackson.
Better come loaded up if they want those conversations to go anywhere.
One week from now, there will have been nothing new to report about Jurickson Profar, which is only going to make me more impatient for Pitchers & Catchers.
In a week, I might have the chance to update Andy Ibanez’s Liga Colombiana de Beisbol Profesional winter league run, which sits at .400/.464/.480 . . . but in just a scant 28 plate appearances.
Is this morning’s report just an excuse to roll out the new Newberg Report email banner, featuring Nomar Mazara in Jorge Alfaro’s place (hat tip to Scott for the photo and Marty for the design)?
Or to remind you that today would be a great day to take five minutes and cross some folks off your holiday shopping lists (or to take care of yourself) by buying books about the 2015 Texas Rangers — or any Rangers club dating back to 1999 — at this link?
Not really.
Just stretching out a bit. The frenzy starts in a couple sleeps.
Though I do really like the new banner . . . which is about to get a heavy workout.


