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Rangers Sign Dallas Keuchel To Minor League Deal

By Anthony Franco | July 25, 2022 at 9:01pm CDT

The Rangers have signed Dallas Keuchel to a minor league contract, per a team announcement. The 2015 AL Cy Young winner will soon report to Triple-A Round Rock.

Texas becomes the third team of the year to roll the dice on Keuchel. The two-time All-Star began the season with the White Sox, playing out the final campaign of the three-year free agent deal he signed over the 2019-20 offseason. Keuchel had thrived in the first season of that deal, posting a 1.99 ERA through 63 1/3 innings during the shortened campaign. He couldn’t maintain that production over a longer showing the following year, as the veteran southpaw was hit hard for a 5.28 ERA across 162 frames last season.

While the Sox surely hoped that Keuchel could bounce back this year, that hasn’t proven the case. He was tagged for a 7.88 ERA through his first eight starts with the South Siders, posting a matching 12.2% strikeout and walk rate. Chicago released him in late May, and he hit the open market after passing unclaimed through waivers. The Diamondbacks added him on a minor league deal a few days later, and he returned to the majors in the desert by the end of June. Arizona pitching coach Brent Strom had worked closely with Keuchel during his heyday with the Astros, but their second stint together proved brief.

Keuchel made just four starts for the Snakes. He served up 22 runs (20 earned) through 18 2/3 frames, although he did post a respectable 18:7 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Still, the volume of hard contact he surrendered was enough for Arizona to cut him loose within a few weeks.

There’s no risk for the Rangers in trying their hand at getting Keuchel back on track. The White Sox remain on the hook for his salary, and Texas would be responsible only for the prorated portion of the $700K minimum salary if he makes the majors. Lack of rotation depth has been a problem, with each of Taylor Hearn, Glenn Otto and Spencer Howard posting an ERA of 5.40 or higher. Keuchel adds 11 years of MLB experience and a robust list of career accolades to the upper levels of the organization, although his 2022 results have been worse than those of Hearn and Otto.

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  1. metsfan1992

    1 year ago

    Diamondbacks legend

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    • stymeedone

      1 year ago

      Texas will sign him to a 3 year $30MM contract as they tend to do!

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      • lady1959

        1 year ago

        Name a washed up pitcher they have signed for that lately! ⚾️

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        • j817

          1 year ago

          Chan Ho Park back when I was high school. I’m 37

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  2. ftasports

    1 year ago

    Y tho

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    • ButchAdams

      1 year ago

      Need anything to eat innings. Perez and gray can’t do it by themselves, and BP is overworked having to pitch 4-5 innings the other 3 nights. It’s not a great signing, but we aren’t making the playoffs and just need to get through the season

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      • CluHaywood

        1 year ago

        Like 2 innings? And then you are so far behind, the game is moot? Guy can’t eat innings unless you want to lose that game. He is a detriment to any Bullpen he is trying to relieve.

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        • ButchAdams

          1 year ago

          We’re losing most of them anyway

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        • mlb1225

          1 year ago

          Keuchel is to the point where he’s the guy you put in when you’re already losing by 10+ runs and you just need to get through the game.

          Reply
        • vinc3nt3

          1 year ago

          If that is the case the Red Sox could use him lol

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      • Dumpster Divin Theo

        1 year ago

        Eat innings and give up 1000 runs, check

        Reply
      • sufferforsnakes

        1 year ago

        Eat innings? More like choke on them.

        1
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  3. fisk72

    1 year ago

    “A giant ball of oil”: Cosmo Kramer.

    5
    Reply
  4. Dorothy_Mantooth

    1 year ago

    One man’s trash is another man’s garbage.

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    • Dogbone

      1 year ago

      Keuchel will last about a week there.

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      Reply
  5. madmanTX

    1 year ago

    I did not see that coming. It’d be nice if he worked on his arsenal. Never too late to become a knuckleballer! I hope he sticks with the Rangers and makes a comeback.

    1
    Reply
  6. geg42

    1 year ago

    Will Dallas play in Arlington?

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    • lady1959

      1 year ago

      No. Dallas and Tarrant county don’t like each other. ⚾️

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      Reply
  7. Joe It All

    1 year ago

    Will the Dallas suburb make this Dallas superb?

    Reply
    • Groucho

      1 year ago

      Arlington isn’t a suburb of Dallas. It’s a city of 400,000+ in a different county.

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  8. PaulSimon

    1 year ago

    Ah, whoops, first game he pitches Rangers 3 Other team 15

    2
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    • Dumpster Divin Theo

      1 year ago

      Would be great if the sport were like golf where low score wins

      Reply
  9. Highest IQ

    1 year ago

    Giving up more runs than innings pitched is cy young level greatness.

    3
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  10. I Like Big Bunts

    1 year ago

    Hot turd. Pass it around the league!

    3
    Reply
  11. desertbull

    1 year ago

    Why?

    Reply
  12. Rsox

    1 year ago

    Dallas in Arlington

    Reply
  13. justinkm19

    1 year ago

    Could be a filler to call up Ragans, Winn, or White.

    Reply
    • ButchAdams

      1 year ago

      Possibly ragans. Winn and Owen’s aren’t ready. Winn has bombed at aaa, and white has 4 games under his belt at aa.

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      • theprofessor1981

        1 year ago

        I’m expecting Ragans to get the September call-up. Winn will probably start in Round Rock next spring, and White should join him by then.

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  14. IronBallsMcGinty

    1 year ago

    At least nobody is calling it a depth signing.

    2
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    • StudWinfield

      1 year ago

      It’s a depth signing.

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      Reply
  15. astros_fan_84

    1 year ago

    DK will sell tickets in Round Rock.

    Reply
  16. cwsOverhaul

    1 year ago

    Gotta love guaranteed contracts. 37mil for last 2yrs of very poor performance and IL stints. This is the other side when rabid anti-owner posters bemoan certain players are so underpaid. Clubs simultaneously have some relative bargains and bad deals to absorb (usually veteran FAs like this).

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  17. solaris602

    1 year ago

    KOOCH!!!!!

    Reply
  18. nottinghamforest13

    1 year ago

    Hopefully his wife partakes in some of the BBQ offerings. She needs to start eating.

    1
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  19. Bigtimeyankeefan

    1 year ago

    Stick a fork in him he’s done

    Reply
  20. SchnauzerFace

    1 year ago

    This only makes sense if Texas is planning to unload a couple starters at the deadline. Even then, it’s hard to understand. He’s known for being a poison in the clubhouse, so why would they want their young arms in AAA to learn from him? Strange move, but historically speaking, pitching has always been an afterthought out here.

    Reply
  21. RG1 4

    1 year ago

    It’s time to fire Woodward’s ass! What’s it gonna take??? This guy sucks!!!!

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  22. TheRealMilo

    1 year ago

    Dumpster diving and paying above market to 30 year olds are really the only things in the Rangers’ front office bag of tricks. And to preemptively address the usual tired Rangers’ arguments, the dumpster diving hasn’t resulted in success:

    Lance Lynn – traded for the underwhelming Dane Dunning. Poster boy of a 4.50 ERA back of rotation cannon fodder for a pretend contender. Lynn traded with an additional year of control left – one that would see him finish 3rd in AL Cy Young voting.

    Kyle Gibson, Ian Kennedy – they had to send Hans Crouse out with these two guys to get back…Spencer Howard. Howard has a career 7 ERA. Crouse may actually be good away from Texas.

    Mike Minor – gets back Dustin Harris.

    So all that dumpster diving, time wasted, wheels spinning, losing seasons gets back Dustin Harris. bravo JD, bravo.

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