Monday Afternoon Rangers Notes: Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

Some stuff floating around out there this afternoon of Rangers note:

● Jeff Passan conferred with several executives and assessed the potential landing spots, and has set the odds of Josh Hamilton going to one of these 12 teams as follows: Orioles at 100-to-1, Blue Jays at 50-to-1, Angels at 50-to-1, Phillies at 40-to-1, Nationals at 30-to-1, Red Sox at 20-to-1, Yankees at 18-to-1, Giants at 15-to-1, Mariners at 15-to-1, Cubs at 12-to-1, Dodgers at 5-to-1, and the Rangers at 5-to-4 (Yahoo! Sports)

● Ken Rosenthal proposes a risk/reward-balancing package from the Rangers that pays Josh Hamilton $100 million guaranteed over the next four seasons, and cautions that there's little reason to believe that Hamilton will be amenable to such provisions as voidable years on the back end of a deal (ala the sixth year on Adrian Beltre's deal) or option years; he further explains that the inclusion of contract-voiding drug and alcohol provisions probably wouldn't matter, because the players' union views such provisions as unenforceable (FOXSports.com)

● Per CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman, Robbie Ross was part of the Rangers' offer for Carlos Beltran during last summer's trade deadline festivus, but the Mets saw more upside in right-handed pitching prospect Zach Wheeler, and given that and Beltran's reluctance to waive his no-trade clause to go to Texas, Ross remained a Ranger