The Rangers don’t quite have an unlimited budget for the offseason. Per Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News, the club wants to come in under the $241 million luxury tax threshold for next season.
Yet, with a current tax projection of $191.1 million, the Rangers could add close to $50 million in average annual value to their books for next year and still accomplish that goal. That’s a decent-size chunk of change to fill out their starting rotation, among other things.
It was a rough year for the Rangers, and missing because of free agency are Max Scherzer, Nathan Eovaldi, Andrew Heaney, Kirby Yates and David Robertson. How the Rangers fill those holes is going to matter a ton, vis-à-vis their contention chances in 2025.
On the plus side, many of the same pieces that led the Rangers to the World Series in 2023 are still in place. And that team didn’t even have a healthy Jacob deGrom or fully formed versions of Evan Carter and Wyatt Langford. All three will be in play for 2025.
Globe Life Field isn’t much of a stadium, but the Rangers can at least boast about it being the newest stadium on the MLB block. Even if the Dallas area isn’t quite as affordable as Houston, there’s no arguing that players’ dollars go further in Texas than they do elsewhere.
