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Good morning. This is my final morning update before Christmas so I wanted to wish you and yours a happy and healthy holiday week. I hope you get that pony that you asked Santa for.
The whole cadre of MLB.com AL West writers profile their teams and note that the division has been pretty quiet as a whole this offseason. Our T.R. Sullivan ponders if the Rangers might get in on the James Shields sweepstakes.
And there you go. There's your Rangers update for today. Since Adam's out of pocket transitional magic didn't pay off yesterday, that's all anyone cared to write about the Rangers.
My gift to you, instead, is this video of Adrian Beltre hitting a walk-off home run to help ruin the Oakland A's season:
