Should Texas Rangers trade Marcus Semien for financial flexibility after disappointing season?
The Texas Rangers fell on their face in 2024 attempting to defend their franchises first World Series title. Texas will have to make dramatic moves to get back to contention in 2025, but is one of those moves trading Marcus Semien?
Semien is the Rangers’ captain and had an MVP-caliber season in 2023 while leading the franchise to its first championship. But with Semien getting older and borderline all-star level replacements in Ezequiel Duran and Josh Smith does that make Marcus expendable?
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I think it’s the right move to move him. He did what we brought him here to do. Now let’s dump that salary before it gets ugly in the second half of his deal.
Smith likely got a little fatigued at the end of the year given he's never played 150 games before. That said he's a platoon guy on a contender. Foscue's time is next year. He's now a seasoned minor leaguer with little to prove there. Let him sink or swim. I don't think it's ability with him, but can he stay off the trainer's table.
Trade lowe, move corey to 1st, Josh smith plays Shortstop, I think trading semien if it would happen would be a few seasons later, he does have a big contract I think there's very few teams who would pick that up considering he is on the older side but he still has good years ahead of him I do think he retires a ranger