Jon Daniels, general manager of the Texas Rangers, joined The Ben & Skin Show on 105.3 The Fan [KRLD-FM] recently to talk all things baseball. Here are some highlights:

How early, if teams start contacting teams about trades, what's the earliest that we might start hearing some of those things - no matter who the teams are?

JD: "There's kind of constant dialogue, but as far as something bigger, it's probably after the June draft. I forget the exact date but it's usually somewhere around the 5th to the 10th. And right afterwards, after the draft the phone calls pick up."

If you had to choose the thing you were most positive about so far this season, and the thing that probably raises the most questions right now...

JD: "What are we, 10-11 games in? So, we haven't done anything super consistently yet. But overall, been encouraged by the bullpen. Have a couple of outings that have kind of skewed some of the numbers. I thought Keone [Kela], [Alex] Claudio, [Jose] LeClerc - when he was up here - [Kevin] Jepsen, [Jake] Diekman after the first outing ... just down the line, I feel pretty good about a lot of the options right there."

"Just the inconsistency of the offense so far, and we haven't really gotten going. A couple of guys are swinging the bats well: [Shin-Soo] Choo, Elvis [Andrus] in particular, Joey [Gallo]'s had good at-bats, [Jurickson] Profar's had mostly good at-bats, but as a team we haven't really strung together too many rallies and gotten going offensively yet."

Latest on Tim Linececum...

JD: "I tell you what, man, this blister - you should have taken the over on how long it would take to come back from it. It was really deep, kind of a gnarly looking blister on his finger that just didn't allow him to grip anything with the seams at all."

"He's been able to keep his shoulder going using some of the plyo balls without seams, but the skin is still pretty raw. So, I don't have a real good timeline. My guess is he's probably a couple weeks away from even getting into a rehab game. And he hasn't thrown in games yet. He didn't have a spring training. He needs like a full build up."