The Texas Rangers head into the Winter Meetings (which begin today) with some holes still to fill. Given that they are likely to look to address those holes via free agency, its worth taking a look at what the Rangers’ payroll situation currently looks like.
The Rangers have said that they expect the 2018 payroll to be closer to where it was in 2016 than where it was in 2017. According to Cots Contracts, the 2017 payroll was $165M and change, and the 2016 payroll was just a tad shy of $159M. Thus, if we apply the contract data from Cots for 2018, we should expect that the Rangers are looking at ending up somewhere around $158-160M for their 2018 payroll, using that methodology.