The Rangers acquired 1B/DH Jake Burger from the Marlins yesterday, adding a big time bat to their lineup for 2025 and beyond. With Burger on the menu, what will the Rangers' lineup look like next year? Will Marcus Semien and Corey Seager automatically bat 1st and 2nd or will their spot in the lineup be flexible?
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00:00My opinion is, is in order, Corey Seeger is your best hitter.
00:20I don't think anybody will argue with that.
00:22Now it's like, who is going to be my best, my second best hitter in 2025 if I say it's
00:28going to be Wyatt Lankford, I want my two guys getting the most at-bats possible.
00:33And that's what I think.
00:34And I like Lankford as a leadoff better than I like Seeger, even though he's your best
00:39hitter.
00:40I don't think Seeger wants to lead off.
00:41I'm sure not.
00:42Now, I know, we know that Simeon wants to lead off, is now, if I'm looking at-
00:46It's time to tell him what he's going to do instead.
00:49I'm not going to disagree with that, but if I'm looking at OPS Plus, there's a lot of
00:54extra stats.
00:55It's very tough.
00:56I don't know how many people come up to us at Buffalo Wild Wings or wherever we're at,
00:59whether it's at-
01:00Bedford this week.
01:01Bedford.
01:02Bedford this week.
01:03We were at Palmer's Hot Chicken last week in North Dallas.
01:08People say, Mike, I don't really like baseball, or I didn't really like baseball, but I really
01:13like it now.
01:14I listen to Nuggets, and you get me into it, and I'm like, I love those comments because
01:18I get it.
01:19And then there's stats that are not easy to explain, and it would take me maybe a whole
01:23Nuggets to explain.
01:24But OPS Plus, you want to be at 100 is kind of an average, and you want to be over that
01:31number.
01:32If you're over that number, good.
01:33OPS Plus last year for Adoles Garcia was 94.
01:37For Jake Berger, it was 103, and for Nathaniel Lowe, it was 120.
01:42There's all kinds of different numbers because if you look at power-wise, you'd say Lowe
01:46by far is the worst.
01:48People sleep on Nathaniel Lowe, don't they?
01:49But if you look at OPS Plus, it's a lot higher because he does get some extra base hits that
01:54Berger's not going to get.
01:55He is going to have more home runs.
01:57So then I start going, all right, if, and I'm not disagreeing with Corey, is Evan Carter
02:02being one, and then you don't want to back Carter and Sieger back-to-back, so that's
02:06why I think Lankford, you had it, too, which makes sense.
02:09I'm breaking up the lefties with the righty, but I also have a lineup where I have Lankford-Sieger-Young
02:14is my top three.
02:15Oh, yeah.
02:16I kind of forgot about Josh Young a little bit.
02:19And Simeon.
02:20I have Simeon Fifth, and then I have Evan Carter Sixth.