The Texas Rangers have a new manager for the 2026 MLB season.

And under the leadership of Skip Schumaker, the Rangers could decide to make some changes.

ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez pointed to one concept in particular: a trade of Adolis Garcia.

Garcia is a two-time All Star and was the 2023 ALCS MVP, but he’s 32 now and coming off a season in which he batted .227 with a .665 OPS.

“The expectation throughout the industry is that the Rangers will cut payroll in pursuit of getting younger under new manager Skip Schumaker, with outfielder Adolis Garcia seen as a prime trade candidate,” Gonzalez writes.

At the GM Meetings this week, Rangers leader Chris Young pushed back against the idea of making trades just to make trades.

“We’re going to have a payroll that’s high enough for us to win,” Young said, via ESPN. “We’ve got a great core group in place, and we are in a great position that we don’t have to make any moves to accommodate payroll, to buy payroll flexibility so to speak. We’re expecting to win with whatever number we have.”

The Rangers had a bizarre 2025 season. They had the lowest team ERA in all of baseball, yet they finished nine games back in the AL West.

The offense hasn’t been good enough in the two years since winning the World Series. Garcia’s regression has certainly been a part of that, but he’s far from the only culprit.

It seems the Rangers have to solve the lineup one way or the other, whether that’s by addition or subtraction or even addition by subtraction.