It’s finally today that the World Series will take off, as the Arizona Diamondbacks will be in Texas this evening to face the Rangers in the first game of the series.
Yesterday evening, moreover, colleague Charles-Alexis Brisebois established the state of the series’ strengths. A great read before the finale begins.
What’s fascinating is seeing the duel between the ways in which the two clubs got to the playoffs. There are exceptions on both sides, obviously, but we clearly see that the Diamondbacks are banking on the young people they have developed while the Rangers have a lot of hope in their big acquisitions on the free agency and trade market. .
Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Nathan Eovaldi, Jordan Montgomery, Max Scherzer and so on, all without even including the injured Jacob deGrom.
And clearly, seeing Rangers succeed with this mentality must give the club ideas of greatness. After all, you don’t change a winning formula (or, at least, a formula that gets us to the World Series).
This is why we should expect to see the Rangers still be active on the free agency market this winter… and who better than Shohei Ohtani as the club’s target?
Because according to Jon Heyman, it’s more than possible, as he places the Rangers alongside the Giants and Dodgers among the trio of favorites to sign the Japanese.
In fact, Heyman recalls that the Rangers were on Ohtani’s preliminary list when he arrived in America back in the day and notes that the Texas club had been working hard at the 2023 trade deadline to get their hands on his services.
It would therefore clearly not be the first time that the Rangers would have interest in his services, obviously.
The Rangers really seem to be hungry, then, and the club’s playoff run should only increase the club’s appetite for finding big stars.
And since Ohtani seems to want to put himself in a position to win, going to win a World Series would give the Rangers a big selling point. It’s up to them to give him every reason to sign in Texas from now on.
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