Who all will be traded? There are only a couple that have any real trade value. I'm sure that Joey Gallo will be gone.

They'll trade Gallo and Gibson and possibly Kennedy. They have market value. Maybe one of the catchers if someone is desperate for it. If they DON'T trade them JD better put those first two under multi-year contracts.

Gallo is fool's gold, looks good until he goes on 1 for 20 streaks at different intervals throughout season. With him you can count on 30-40 HRs, 40%+ strikeouts, tons of groundouts/lineouts into shift, solid rightfield play and about .200 hitting with runners in scoring position. If they don't change shift rules you'll have a career .215 hitter or worse.

Gallo is fool's gold, looks good until he goes on 1 for 20 streaks at different intervals throughout season. With him you can count on 30-40 HRs, 40%+ strikeouts, tons of groundouts/lineouts into shift, solid rightfield play and about .200 hitting with runners in scoring position. If they don't change shift rules you'll have a career .215 hitter or worse.

Man I didn’t realize the hate for the shift until recently. I’m on another forum and a lot of people hate It there too. I personally don’t understand It. If you got to the bigs and can’t hit opposite field then that’s on you. Dead pull hitters that get paid for power and strikeouts don't get held against them are subject to an effective shift. Until ownership stops bringing up hitters that are dead pull hitters and strike out on average once a game this wont change. Stopping the shift will make the pitchers throw outside pitches for strikes and the hitter will have to prove they can hit it without rolling over on it for an infield ground ball. Back in the day a good hitter would get off of the plate, move up in the batters box, choke up on the bat and shoot an inside pitch the other way and head down to first base. That’s gone.
The shift is smart baseball.

Why the dislike for It?

Man I didn’t realize the hate for the shift until recently. I’m on another forum and a lot of people hate It there too. I personally don’t understand It. If you got to the bigs and can’t hit opposite field then that’s on you. Dead pull hitters that get paid for power and strikeouts don't get held against them are subject to an effective shift. Until ownership stops bringing up hitters that are dead pull hitters and strike out on average once a game this wont change. Stopping the shift will make the pitchers throw outside pitches for strikes and the hitter will have to prove they can hit it without rolling over on it for an infield ground ball. Back in the day a good hitter would get off of the plate, move up in the batters box, choke up on the bat and shoot an inside pitch the other way and head down to first base. That’s gone.
The shift is smart baseball.

Why the dislike for It?

Who hates it, I was simply saying if it doesn't get changed, Gallo will never be above a career .215 hitter. I'm stating your case, the guy is not a complete hitter. The days if Rod Carew, Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs are gone.

Ted Williams was a dead pull hitter. If they did the shift back then I guarantee he would have never hit .400 and prob would have been around .275-.300 and we would be calling him one of the greatest hitters of all time.

When the Rangers were good, they would typically overpay for rental players (Ryan Dempster, Adam Eaton and Akinori Otsuka). In recent years when they've traded players to good teams, they've gotten little in return. Trades for Darvish, Mike Minor, Lance Lynn, Cole Hamels didn't result in equal returns. And then top prospects and young players that didn't pan out killed the core of the team.