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The Ticket Top 10

The Sweet Spot- Andrew McCutchen a Texas Ranger

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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March 5th, 2026

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0:00.0

I'm Sam Slayton, CEO and co-owner of Sante Center for Healing.

0:03.4

We're celebrating 30 years of transforming lives.

0:06.3

Every day, families call us in crisis, and every day we show them that recovery is possible.

0:11.6

If you or someone you love is struggling, Sante is here for you right now.

0:15.3

Please reach out at SanteCenter.com.

0:18.0

Right here, since we're the baseball show of of record and we'll be on an airplane in two

0:22.2

days flying to Surprise Arizona for our annual trip to Ranger Spring training. We've got to talk

0:27.5

a little baseball and I don't know if we were necessarily planning on doing a full baseball segment

0:32.6

today, but the club made some news as the Rangers and former Pittsburgh Pirates MVP, former NLMVP, Andrew McCutcheon, have agreed to a minor league deal.

0:44.1

He is 39 years old.

0:46.3

Apparently, if he makes the roster, he's going to get $2.5 million from Texas this year.

0:51.2

And on the surface, I have no real issue with this, but just from a baseball

0:54.3

standpoint, I really felt like McCutcheon was having a nice little end of his career

0:59.4

swan song with the team that he rose to prominence with, the Pirates, because he went back

1:04.4

there in 2023 and actually had a pretty nice year. I think he hit, you know, 20 home runs

1:08.8

or something like that. And, you know, he's, I think he's aging somewhat gracefully in that uniform because I don't know if he's a

1:15.6

Hall of Famer. But he's definitely, he's a Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer. And his 20s were

1:20.8

unbelievable in Pittsburgh when he won the MVP and he had almost an eight war one season which is almost unheard of.

1:29.3

But 09 to 2017 was pretty much his heyday.

1:32.0

Yeah.

1:32.8

Age 22 through 28, he was great.

1:35.6

And then, you know, he was a center fielder.

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