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- Updated: July 24, 2016
KANSAS CITY — Rangers general manager Jon Daniels is not fond of “rental” players. If Daniels is going to acquire a starting pitcher, he would prefer one who will be with Texas for more than this season.
Chris Sale, Jake Odorizzi and Matt Moore — the names being thrown around the most — all fit that requirement. But Daniels admitted that he may have to consider a rental player before the Aug. 1 non-waiver Trade Deadline.
“I think the only real change is I was hoping we wouldn’t consider a rental,” Daniels said. “In my mind, we are open to longterm controllable acquisitions like Cole [Hamels] and down the line. It’s still not my preference, but I’d be open to it.”
The Rangers are finding clubs are asking a steep price for starting pitching. Sale may be the most expensive pitcher on the market, but he has also been suspended five days by the White Sox for Saturday’s clubhouse incident.
A rental player refers to one who can be a free agent after the season. Under the changes in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, clubs can no longer tender a qualifying offer to a player traded during the season and get compensation if he signs elsewhere. So basically a club is “renting” the player for the final two months of the season and postseason.
Padres right-hander Andrew Cashner is the one rental player …
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