Running it back with Jordan Montgomery.

Let's venture outside the box a bit and see if we can help Mom & Dad figure this out.

Armchair GM’ing is so easy. You’re not spending your own money, or your boss’s. Or navigating human personalities (agents, players, your boss’s) or prospective TV deals. Or factoring in clubhouse impact and other annoying non-fantasy-league considerations. And if you come up with a terrible idea, so what?

Unless there’s an ominous magnetic resonance image circulating out there (unlikely anytime Scott Boras is involved), the potential for “terrible idea” seems to be irrelevant to the fascinating case of starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery, on as short a list as you want of the main characters in the Rangers’ best-ever postseason run. All signs point to a disconnect on contract terms between Montgomery — age 31 and coming off, by far, the most demanding workload of his career — and the teams he’d be open to pitching for. Jordan Montgomery is a good idea. If the price is right.

There’s a plausible theory out there that the reason he went all winter without finding a pitching home is that he was waiting out the Diamond Sports court proceedings that were holding the Rangers at bay until they had some clarity on broadcast revenues for 2024. But that idea has since lost traction. Days after a bankruptcy court approved a restructured (and slightly discounted) one-year TV deal between the RSN and the team, spring training opened to Chris Young telling reporters that, while the organization remains open-minded, he doesn’t expect any further major additions to the roster before the season starts — partly because the TV deal that is apparently now in place for 2024 doesn’t clear things up for 2025 and beyond. Plus, there’s the pesky luxury tax.

So I, armchair GM, have an idea.