Spitballing the Rangers' 2025, 2026, & 2027 rosters: Part 2 of a four-part series.
We're on to 2025.
We don’t know what will happen in the next five months, or two, for that matter. Will the Rangers add impact players in July or, if the current slide extends to the point at which they lose sight not only of a Wild Card slot but also the AL West, will they be selling off? Will they be done on September 29 at Angel Stadium, on November 2 in a World Series Game Seven, or somewhere in between?
It’s not only foolish to try and answer those questions now — we would be well advised to set aside any present angst, for starters — but even more so with this team in particular, and with its manager. We know no lengthy skid can’t be overcome on a dime, nor is it immune to falling short of expected production. We’re going to have to wait a lot of this out. Stated another way: Sports.
What we do know is that after the players have cleaned their lockers out, whenever that is, the Rangers front office will have some work to do. But because of how this team has been built, a sizable portion of the core that won the World Series and that is here now will be here again in 2025 — as long as Chris Young and his group want it that way.
We don’t need to dust off the crystal ball in projecting next year’s Rangers roster because we already sat down with it a week ago, shuffling things a bit in a hypothetical July on the assumption that the team remains in the hunt and Young remains opportunistic. That gave us a head start on the mission at hand — retooling things so the Rangers are armed with a 2025 roster with which Bruce Bochy can, for the third time, win a World Series two years after his last parade. (Not that that rules out winning one in the intervening year as well.)
So that’s where we’ll pick things up. Let’s take the current Rangers group, modified by the three July 2024 trades we cooked up last week, and think about some other opportunities the Rangers might have this winter to reorganize and reload — with even more impact than the summer moves.