Rangers general manager Jon Daniels recently joined SportsDay's Tim Cowlishaw and Matt Mosley on The Afternoon Show on KESN 103.3 FM to talk about his team and the Ian Desmond signing. Here are some of the highlights:

How Desmond and Hamilton will co-exist:

Daniels: I hope Ian's playing well and come May, Josh is healthy and ready to roll. Even before the last few weeks where Josh's knee acted up again, internally we were all discussing what is the right number of games for Josh and I don't think anyone felt like it was 150. At 34, going to be 35, he's had multiple knee surgeries, he's 240-plus pounds, a big man on a knee that's had some issues.

Even before the last few weeks, all off-season we've been of the mindset that we were going to have to monitor his playing time. What we've talked to Josh about is let's really focus on getting healthy. If you're healthy and you come back and you're playing the way you're capable of playing, I'm very confident we'll sort it out. I'm very confident that we'll find spots where Josh can play and contribute to the club and at the same time still protect his body.

On Jurickson Profar:

Daniels: It was nice to see him out there. Honestly, it's just nice to see a guy... he suffered the last two years. It's hard. He was kind of poised to start his career and he had to totally put it on hold for two full years and a number of setbacks. I'm glad we did the surgery last spring. Dr. Meister really addressed the issue. He rehabbed hard this past year and he's fully healthy now. I've seen him take infield, seen him do cut-offs and relays, long toss.

But today in the game, he hits a home run to lead off off Cole [Hamels]. Swung at the first three pitches, three fastballs, got the third one and hit it out to left field. And then to lead off the next inning, Delino [DeShields] hits a well-hit ground ball up the middle, Profar ranges to his left, slides, comes up with the ball and then kind of pops up and has to throw off-balance and throws a pretty accurate throw, one-hop to first base to get Delino, who's obviously one of the faster guys in the game. He didn't have time to set his feet, this wasn't a kind of controlled throwing program, this was just react and go and it was really all arm.

To see him do that - he had a big smile on his face after the play. That's a big test to have passed, because you can only simulate things so much in practice, but that made me feel good that he had the confidence to do that in a game scenario.

On their facility-mates, the World Series champion Royals:

Daniels: In 2014 I didn't watch a pitch of the playoffs because we so focused on the managerial search and the year was such a rough year - 97 losses. This year, even when we were out - and I thought we should have been playing Kansas City, hopefully we were going to beat Toronto there - I found myself legitimately rooting for Kansas City. We've been across from these guys for 12-plus years now. We get a lot of interaction with Dayton Moore and their whole staff, we have a genuinely good relationship. So it's been great, I've been really happy for them, honestly. I'd rather them finish second to us, of course. Usually in the playoffs I can't really find a team I'm rooting for because I have to find a reason because I want them all to lose. Actually this year I was pulling for Kansas City.

Listen to the whole interview here.