5 years on a Friday night, I have to put my jacket and blazer on because Jacob to

Grom gets 5 years. What is this? The Tom Hicks Texas Rangers? Let me start with you,

Metz fans. You lost Jacob to Grom tonight. The one-two punch of Mac Shers or 43

million a year and Jacob to Grom, who I can't believe opted out. Wait a minute,

he knew he was going to get a bigger deal and boy did he get it. The Texas

Rangers are acting like they're signing a rod again. A complete overpay and let

me explain why. Why Metz fans should not be despondent and why Texas Rangers fans

should? Jacob to Grom is one of the best pitchers of all time but you can only

be a good pitcher when you pitch. Jacob to Grom has a total of 26 starts over

the last two years. Every time Jacob to Grom throws a pitch the front office

worries. Crosses their fingers, crosses their toes. You've got backups in the

bullpen ready to go. Little quiet conversations happen every time he's on the

mound because you know you are one little, ugh, or a little tweak of an elbow, a

shoulder, a thigh, his head, shoulders, knees and toes. What kind of

desperation? Let's explain what the Rangers did. Last year they signed position

players. Remember when they got Cory Seeger and Marcus Simian? When we all said

to ourselves, why would they take two of the top short stops and give 325

million over 10 years to Seeger? 175 million over seven years to Simian. They won

68 games. The reason they won 68 games is their pitching stinks. So what do you

do if you're Chris Young, the new GM, the newly minted former player, six foot

nine GM, president of baseball operations, replacing John Daniels? What do you do?

You say, hey, Ray, that's the owner of the Rangers. Is there any way that you

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