On SportsDayDFW's "Ballzy" podcast, Kevin Sherrington and Barry Horn (Evan Grant is on vacation) discuss all things baseball with MLB.com correspondent Richard Justice.

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Sherrington: I think this is the first time I can say that we really do have a rivalry between the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers. It may be the first time that we have a rivalry between the two cities because there's never been a real rivalry between the two. You can't even talk about the Oilers and the Cowboys. That was never a real rivalry. They never played any real games. I think we are actually developing something here and something that should continue because it's my impression that these two clubs should be the front-runners going into this season. Do you agree with that?

Justice: Yep. In fact, I think you couldn't probably pick anybody else. These are the two teams that are head and shoulders above everybody else. Everybody else is trying to figure things out. The Angels are going to be paying for that Josh Hamilton mistake for awhile now.

Sherrington: They're paying all of it this year. The Rangers pay next to nothing for that contract.

Justice: Yeah, and not only that, they need offense but to sign one of the impact guys, instead of [Justin] Upton where they'd go over the luxury tax because of the Josh Hamilton money. But there's questions for both teams. I was thinking about this the other day. These two franchises right now are as well run as any in baseball. The Rangers have ownership that defers to Jon Daniels, trusts Jon Daniels, put their faith in him. That doesn't happen everywhere. The Astros have an owner, Jim Crane will say, 'Hey, you've got to go talk to general manager Jeff Luhnow about that. I check with him once or twice a day, but I don't make any of the decisions.' I think he's honest. Owners always say that. But in this case, I think it's kind of a perfect world. I don't believe it's been this way for these two franchises in their history to have it this good.

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Horn: You talked about the greatness or how much you like the Rangers' ownership. If I'm a Ranger fan and I'm sitting out here in Corsicana and I go, 'Why aren't they spending more money? Why can't they bring in a guy like [Justin] Upton? Why can't they bring in a guy like [Yoenis] Cespedes?' How would you respond to that?

Justice: I would respond that they have a plan and that they've pretty true to the plan. If you're asking me should they go sign David Price, you can make a case for that. I think offensively they're okay. It's not a sexy signing, but [Justin] Ruggiano is a guy that is an impact guy against left-handed pitching. You've got to let [Delino] DeShields grow. You've got financial commitments to [Shin-Soo] Choo, [Elvis] Andrus and [Adrian] Beltre and all these guys. They went out and got major impact acquisitions last year in [Cole] Hamels. One more pitcher would not hurt, but everybody says that and they may get [Yovani] Gallardo. That would be my only question. Rather than look at what Jon Daniels didn't do, look at what he did do. This is one of the best bullpens that I've ever seen. I've never seen so many quality arms. Let's just say that Tanner Scheppers has some baseball left in him, who knows? He gets to go to spring training and prove that. I think it's a good team. Could you spend more? You could always spend more? But when I think your payroll is over, what's it going to be $125-$130 million, I hear this from every GM. 'If we're spending $135 million, we ought to win.' Hal Steinbrenner at the owners meetings in Dallas goes, 'Listen. You don't to spend $200 million to win a World Series and we're not going to spend $200 million.' Look at the history. The last 10 World Series winners have had the payroll rank of about eighth or ninth. That's where the Rangers are. That's where the Cardinals are. The Royals have been even lower than that. If everybody wants to play fantasy baseball and get one more shot, I understand that. I look at what they've done and I think it's been a good offseason. Do they need one more pitcher? They need one more pitcher other than Colby Lewis. But everybody needs one more pitcher.

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Horn: Jurickson Profar. People discount him. Do you see a future for him?

Justice: Well yeah. How old is he right now? He's 23.

Horn: But people almost discount him.

Justice: People will discount Scheppers, I understand that. You get buried. Also, [Rougned] Odor has been such a, how do you say it, such an emotional spark of the club.

Sherrington: Did you see what David Schoenfield said about Odor? He believes Odor will be the best offensive second baseman in baseball.

Justice: I can believe that. What I saw last year, they feed off his energy. Andrus is a talker, but sometimes when you have a lot of veteran guys you like to have a mix of young guys in there because they remind guys that it's okay to have fun. It's okay to talk a lot and start a fight with another team. You feed off that. That's important.

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Sherrington: My feeling is that he plays an entire year at Triple-A. Elvis plays an entire year as your shortstop this year and at the end of this year you make the decision of are we going to go forward with Andrus as our shortstop or Jurickson Profar? I know it's easy to say, but how are you going to get rid of Elvis' contract? You get rid of it by saying we'll pay $10 million of this and we're going to pay Jurickson Profar $500,000, whatever the minimum is at this point. At $10.5 million, we're going to have a shortstop who is much better offensively than the guy we had and maybe just as good defensively. Maybe even better.

Justice: Wait a minute. What position is Profar going to play?

Sherrington: He's going to be a shortstop. His only real value to me anymore is as a shortstop. Odor has proven what an offensive impact he can make and he may not be as good defensively as Profar would be at second base. But he's much better offensively I think.

Justice: I guess what I'm asking is he [Profar] going to take any balls in the outfield?

Sherrington: To me, I just don't know if he's going to have enough offense. He's a plus player offensively at shortstop. When you can get that and the guy can play the position that's what you ought to do with him. Any team looking at him is looking at him as a shortstop. They're not looking at him as a potential outfielder. I think they've got enough potential in the outfield with Lewis Brinson coming up, with Nomar Mazara coming up, with the fact that Delino DeShields had such a good year last year. And the fact that you're stuck with Shin-Soo Choo's contract.

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Sherrington: What do you think about my Andrus-Profar play?

Justice: Odor is the second baseman. But you look at Profar as an asset to the organization. If that kid can play shortstop in the major leagues, he's going to have great value. It doesn't matter whether it ends up being Elvis, him or whoever. He's going to get you something. He's going to make the Rangers better.

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