[EmpireWF]

The Dallas Morning News is thinking out loud about the possibility the LA Dodgers may be interested in pursuing Rangers 1B Mark Teixeira in a trade in the coming weeks prior to the July 31st deadline.

Very interesting article....an excerpt is below:

Let's go through those clues:

•The Dodgers have recently scouted the Rangers. Hard. It's almost impossible to go to a Rangers game these days and not run into a different Dodgers scout.

•The Rangers know the Dodgers' system more intimately than others. A.J. Preller and Don Welke, who serve in top advisory roles to GM Jon Daniels, both worked in the Dodgers organization recently. Both are well-acquainted with the system. If there is a minor leaguer to be plucked to complete a deal, the Rangers should have a better feel about the Dodgers than just about any other team in baseball.

•The Dodgers moved Nomar Garciaparra to third base this week. They are going to play Loney there for the time being. One previous hangup to any Dodgers-Rangers talk was whether LA would be willing to move Garciaparra in midseason.

•There is perhaps no deeper minor league system in the majors than the Dodgers. In other words, if there is anybody who can afford to deal a number of top-level prospects, it's LA.

•Oh, and did we mention Teixeira's agent, Scott Boras, has season tickets at Dodger Stadium? Makes it that much easier for Boras to negotiate a long-term deal with LA.

There is legitimate reason to think these two teams can get a deal done.

The next step is much harder: Bringing a logical, practical deal that helps both clubs with their goals to fruition. What seems to be logical in baseball often turns to nothingness, because both parties involved have over inflated sense of their players' worth or worse, they try to "win" a trade. Often, a team can get bogged down in weighing offers to find the "best" deal, and the Rangers undoubtedly will have other offers for Teixeira, Gagne and Otsuka or for some combination of all three.

[Lefty Noob]

Makes sense to me. The Dodgers have made it well known they want a better hitter at first base, and Teixeira certainly fits the bill.

[azrael492]

I thought they moved Nomar to 3rd to give Loney a shot. Why trade for a power bat when you have one just waiting to play.

[ThePundit]

Any team who gives up anything of value for Texiera better sign him ahead of time. Otherwise, he can walk away at the end of the year.