Rangers GM Chris Young joined the GBag Nation for his weekly interview to discuss his disappointment in not being able to bring Rangers fans another season of October baseball, what he's seen from Jacob deGrom in his rehab and when he could be back on the big league club, and more!
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00:00What's it kind of like to be battling to keep it together and defend the title and then
00:20there's a point where it doesn't seem super doable anymore and maybe the pressure is relieved?
00:25Have you reflected on that at all?
00:29Well, not necessarily in terms of a positive way and the pressure relief.
00:35I don't know if it ever really fully ceases given that I hope that our guys are highly
00:41competitive and whether it's for the team or themselves individually that they want
00:46to finish strong and kind of put a good finish together on a season that hasn't gone our
00:52way.
00:54But I think more so just for me, the idea that we're not going to be playing in October
00:59and our fans are not going to be able to watch October baseball, that part has been disappointing
01:05for me and certainly has kind of hit home for me recently.
01:07I just think about how much fun last October was and how awesome it was to see the entire
01:13Metroplex into it and supporting our team and to know that this year we're going to
01:17fall short of that goal, but ultimately it's motivating.
01:21It's very motivating and I'm disappointed, as I said, and I want to make sure we get
01:25back there.
01:27So where does your competitive focus turn to then?
01:30Well, everything that we need to do to evaluate our current group of players who are under
01:35contract into 2025 and then also our minor leaguers and then making sure that we've got
01:41our scouts deployed throughout the league looking at players whose contracts may be
01:45coming up and potential trade candidates as well.
01:48So there's a ton of work to be done here these last five weeks and we're certainly
01:53working very hard as a front office to make sure that we are prepared going into the offseason.