Young: Payroll won't be impediment to improving Rangers

ARLINGTON -- Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young spoke with the media via Zoom on Monday to give offseason updates. Here’s what we learned:

What is the budget going to look like?

Young said that he expects the payroll for 2027 to be “very similar” to where it was in ‘26. The Rangers’ payroll sat around $193 million this year, and they have a number of free agents coming off the books.

With that, the Rangers theoretically have about $20 million to spend this offseason after factoring in arbitration increases. That is not much to spend on free agents.

“We are going to continue to look for all ways to improve our club,” Young said. “[A budget], I think, it allows us to be very…