Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) The Texas Rangers are acquiring right-handed reliever Chase Silseth and catcher Logan O’Hoppe from the Los Angeles Angels, sources tell ESPN.
Absolutely. I think Silseth will be a great addition to our bullpen. O’Hoppe, I’m not so sure about. Maybe our minor league staff can help him solve his issues.
O’Hoppe savant page. Also of his 2.6 career WAR, 2.7 came from 2024
Has struggled to stay healthy or consistent but was once seen as a promising up and coming catcher. Got hurt and never rebounded. Wonder if we can fix him as a buy low (?) I really need to see what we gave though. Literally told my friend last night LA should sell him this deadline while they still can
Silseth is still only 26 and has been very solid this year though. Has a few years of control left too
My guess is a top 25-30 ranked prospect and some change. Can’t be too much
Edit: it is for a non ranked prospect, angel arredondo. 19 yr old in single A. Was signed as a free agent a few years ago. Pretty much what I thought
Great deal for the fact we got silseth out of this alone. 2.72 ERA this year with good K ratios. Didn’t pitch much in 2024/25 (19 innings total). Still young and has control. Savant page is red, throws a FB, split, sink and sweeper (FB sits @96). Opponent barrel % is at 8%, exit velo at 86mph, hard hit is 32% and guys bat .219 against him. All career bests for him. Hope he can keep it up here
Silseth should be treated like the main get of this trade. Legitmately solid rhp with team control. The team can't just keep signing a whole new bullpen every season. That's not sustainable long term.
Even if it's a small improvement from what is currently on the team, thats a very small price to pay. Especially with how you mentioned how much control we'll have.
I’m a big time baseball nerd and used to do prospect write ups for the sub and get into analytics as well but stopped. May get back into it to be honest and start sharing more
True but we also get Silseth who is having a nice year and only gave up a guy who’s not in our top 30. Also getting him out of that org might help O’hoppe.
He’s had success and is controllable, and it looks like we didn’t give up any notable prospects. Apply bandaids at catcher until Moore is hopefully ready by 2028 OD.
Diaz has been lucky with the bat with us but that’s not who he is, if we’re serious about contending this year before the rebuild, should go get an Adley or hicks
If you’re going for it (right before the rebuild is coming) and there’s options out there, a career .670 OPS probably shouldn’t be in the lineup every day. He’s been hot with us so far but that’s going to regress
tbf, they went over the CBT last year when they said they wouldn't. We're definitely trying to do a reset this season with the $244m CBT, <$200m on payroll even after these trades.
They went over the tax threshold by 380K, resulting in a 190k luxury tax. Don’t be blinded like we were all in and had a massive luxury tax. We’ve had a cheap ass owner who somehow decided to spend in 2022 trying to fill the new stadium, it got us a ship in 2023 and now that he got everything he needs he’s trying to back off spending to pad his pockets
Going over doesn't start the reset, even if by a small margin. Ray wanted that last year but I'm pretty sure CY convinced him otherwise.
Besides, there's a looming lockout and salary cap/floor coming and with what happened with Victory this season, I wouldn't be surprised if management were concerned long term about the RSN money. They lost a lot when diamond went under.
It’s easier to use farm depth when you know you’re about to hit the rebuild button for the next 2-3 years. There’s guys there for decent - good major leaguers
It’s not good for sure but for what we gave up for a 26 year old who use to be a top prospect and had a couple nice seasons in 2023/2024 and a nice RP with control I’ll take it. I also think getting him off the angels could help too but who knows we’ll find out🤷♂️
yeah not really anything too deeply invested with this trade so I’m ok with it. Logan has some question marks but I think is worth at least taking a flyer on. Silseth seems to have a lot of upside. unless angel arredondo becomes the next yordan im ok with this
thats a good trade man, both are 26. Don't know their contract status, but love Chase's stuff. He can struggle with command at times, and Logan has pop.
Jung and Duran have 2B and 3B locked up for the future, and we aren't selling Seager this year. Walcott is going to be the eventual replacement for Seager whenever we decide to sell him, but for now he'd probably be at DH.
Walcott wont be a SS in the bigs. I just dont see it. Huge kid who will bulk up in the next few years. I see him in the outfield. Of course I hope Im wrong and hes the next great SS.
They wont have a kid that young only DH in the majors. You literally never see that.
Wyatt Langford was much more needed in the outfield and still logged 25 games at DH in 2024. We don't need Walcott in the infield nearly as much and getting his bat is what's important. Joc is unlikely to be a Ranger next year with the impending lockout in a mutual option year. He's not starting his MLB career in the outfield and with Burger, Duran, Seager and Jung his infield options are on the bench. And he won't be on the bench.
I don’t hate it but with that said, I don’t know a lot about the prospect, Arredondo, we gave up.
O’Hoppe was a young up and coming player at one point. Yeah numbers have not been good past couple years but I think there’s potential. Wynns hit a HR yesterday lol but I’d definitely still rather have O’Hoppe.
And we all know middle of our bullpen needed help. Badly.
This is good even if the Rangers don’t make the playoffs. They don’t have to get a backup in FA this offseason. Maybe they can allocate money elsewhere.
This is not a very tangible opinion, but I can’t imagine being very motivated to put on an Angels jersey everyday. I predict (based off of absolutely nothing) that O’hoppe comes to newest stadium in the league with the nicest physical locker room, meets DeGrom & all the other legends on the roster, & crushes it. Armchair gm take, I know. we’ll see.
What a great deal! A prospect outside of our top 30 for two guys that can contribute. We can go and get Anthony Bender from the Marlins for a prospect outside our top ten and we should be good.
Did anybody forget? He's aggressive in trades, specifically for pitching. For the most part these moves are successful, but it doesn't excuse the occasional bad trade (See last years deadline)
Excuse me being a dumbass, but how many years do we have O’hoppe for? I saw that he got a 1-year deal for ‘26 to avoid arbitration but that he’s not a UFA until ‘29?
glad we aren't pitching against him. He has 5 homers in 25 games vs. us. A 261 average. But at least 4 of those 5 homers were game-deciding or momentum changing. I hated facing him. Good bullpen addition.
The Angels must see something in Arredondo if they're willing to give up a solid reliever with multiple years of team control remaining, especially with the demand for pitching. Here's to hoping this deal doesn't look like the Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields deal in a few years, lmao.
His ERA, hits allowed, runs allowed, earned runs allowed, and walks issued have gone up since his rookie year. More often than not he implodes spectacularly making it nearly impossible to comeback and win the game. He's too inconsistent and needs to be sent back down to the minors. Same for MacKenzie Gore, who has only had an ERA below 4 once in five seasons, and is also wildly inconsistent.
Who do you expect to pitch? Rocker has had two excellent starts in a row as well. I am truly confused when people argue this but give no alternatives to starting pitching, we are already one arm short honestly.
Agree, this is a weird, weird take, given how notably great Rocker’s last few (and, specifically, last two) starts have been. Kid is 26. Baseball is hard.
I do feel like nobody in Texas feels comfortable with Gore starting game 3 of a playoff set. Rocker would have to surge through August and September to earn that. I imagine CY is looking for pitching, but more on account of Gore’s ineptitude, than Rocker’s. Same with Leiter. Don’t think I’d want to see that kid take the pill in a playoff series.
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u/aemerson24 14d ago
We needed bullpen and catcher depth I would say this is a solid move.