Does a Shortened MLB Season Benefit the Texas Rangers?

SI's Bri Amaranthus and Chris Halicke discuss how a shortened MLB season could possibly benefit the Texas Rangers.

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00:00 A 60 game MLB season comes with some interesting obstacles.

00:04 Players aren't going to have a ton of time to get ready for the end of July start date.

00:08 Depth is going to be a huge factor.

00:11 However, the Texas Rangers are constructed in a way they could actually benefit from

00:16 a shortened season.

00:18 Chris, what are some of those things that could actually benefit Texas?

00:21 Well, the 60 game season has a lot of people wondering how is their team going to do in

00:26 such a different looking season?

00:29 The baseball season is normally six months long, 162 games.

00:33 It's described as a marathon and now it's looking like it's going to be a 60 game sprint.

00:38 So the obvious question for the Texas Rangers is how can they possibly benefit the most?

00:43 And thankfully, because of what general manager John Daniels did to upgrade the starting rotation,

00:49 it looks like pitching is going to be what carries the Rangers through this kind of a

00:53 situation through this kind of a season.

00:55 Listen, they've got a really, really good one through five with Mike Miner, Lance Lynn,

00:59 Corey Kluber, Kyle Gibson and Jordan Miles.

01:02 But now those guys who are going to be getting more experience at the triple A level, the

01:07 Joe Palumbo's, the Colby Allard's, those guys will be in reserve, be ready to go in case

01:13 they need to fill in, spot start, whatever the case may be.

01:18 And then you have guys like Jonathan Hernandez and Taylor Hearn who can go multiple innings,

01:22 who can be used in a variety of ways.

01:25 And Chris Woodward is really excited about what a lot of these younger guys, what some

01:29 of the depth guys bring to the table.

01:31 So I think if the Rangers are going to make any kind of a run, their depth is definitely

01:35 going to be pushed to the limit, but it looks like that they're going to be deep enough

01:38 where if they can make a push for a postseason, for a postseason berth, it's going to be on

01:44 all of the arms in their rotation.

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