In the eyes of a ranger, the unsuspecting stranger had better know the truth of wrong from

right.

Good morning and welcome to episode 138 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspectives.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh.

We're joined today to talk about the Texas Rangers by Jason Cole of Lone Star Dugout as

well as the prospect team at baseball perspectives.

Jason, how are you?

I'm doing pretty well.

How are you doing?

We're great.

Later on, we'll be not we, but we, you know, the larger we, Pete Barrett, we'll be talking

to Richard Durrett from ESPN Dallas.

So Jason, we were just talking before we hit record about John Daniels and his youth,

but he's in his eighth year as the rangers GM.

And by now we should have a pretty good sense of what his signature style is.

How would you describe him as a GM, what sort of set him apart or what will people remember

him for?

Well, I think one thing and you can include him as well as AJ Preller in this, the guys,

really all the guys that are at the top of the rangers organization is, is they make a

point whether it be draft, signing free agents, trades, they go out and get the high ceiling

guys.

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