Quote Originally Posted by waterboy View Post
You most certainly have a valid point, Tejastrue. I would love to still have Nolan Ryan. That loss was huge. I think Nolan was the main reason Texas turned it around in the first place. Jon Daniels took what Nolan suggested, and made it happen. Nolan knows talent better than JD, and anybody else in the Rangers organization.
Nolan Ryan gave the fans a face of the franchise at a time it needed one with all the Hicks fall out..but he did not build the team. HE did not make trades or sign FAs.