4:18pm: The Rangers announced that they’ve non-tendered Garcia, Heim, and relievers Josh Sborz and Jacob Webb. All four are now free agents.
3:57pm: The Rangers will not tender a contract to outfielder Adolis Garcia, reports Jesse Rogers of ESPN. He’d been arbitration-eligible for the final time and was set to enter his final year of club control. Garcia will instead immediately become a free agent without needing to pass through waivers. Both Garcia and catcher Jonah Heim were being shopped by the Rangers throughout the early stages of the offseason. It’s not yet clear whether Heim will be tendered a contract or traded, but no takers emerged for Garcia, it seems.
Garcia’s hold on his roster spot has appeared tenuous for months. While he was a focal point of the offense that helped the Rangers capture their first World Series title in 2023, the slugging right fielder’s bat has cratered over the past two seasons. He’s also become emblematic of the type of undisciplined, boom-or-bust offensive approach that the Rangers have openly voiced a desire to change since the season ended.
More to come.
His defense alone makes him better than anything Pittsburgh has currently
He’s not a LHH but wouldn’t mind the Astros taking a flier. 1 year, $10M w/ performance incentives?
He does own Houston
meh not really
Absolutely not. I wouldn’t want him in an Astros jersey, if he played for free.
i’m tired of the meyers/mcormick/leon/melton/trammell/etc clown show
But Jake Meyers is a solid player, this Mariner fan has always thought he was an undervalued/underrated player. I hope he can keep progressing & stay healthy.
McCormick and Leon are gone. Trammell is likely gone, Meyers might be traded, so will Melton. The one you will most likely see long term is Jacob Melton.
He didn’t progress though. Look at his batted ball profile. His “career year” had him league average at best
Trammell was tendered a contract. Jacob Melton sucks.
The Astros don’t want Adolis Garcia. They can spend their 10MM elsewhere. (In starting pitching)
That’s fine, but they still need outfielders who can hit. among guys with at least 20 PA’s, 8 of 12 had either 0 or negative fWAR. Fortunately 4 of those guys are gone. But Jake Meyers and his pool noodle bat are still here, and we’re basically relying on Cam Smith to become a solid player, and for Alvarez to be healthy, and for Zach Cole to be productive despite a high K rate.
They should get Martin Maldonado out of retirement if they did sign Garcia. That would make for some interesting clubhouse dynamics.
lol
Maldonado is going to be a manager someday.
Hopefully an Astros catching coach first.
mlb.com/news/astros-catching-coach-tim-cossins
Not very many people saw this. I caught it while browsing for Astros news yesterday.
Remember when this guy thought he was good
2021-2023 he was good, though
He is good and I believe the Rangers will regret not signing him. Too bad the team is cash strapped.
Tell me you’re stuck in the 90’s without telling me you’re stuck in the 90’s. His OPS+ has been below league average each of the last 2 seasons. Yes, he’s still put up decent HR & RBI totals, but the argument for tendering him a 12 million dollar (arb proj.) contract is a purely emotional one. This has nothing to do with money and everything to do with age and declining performance.
he’s 32 and 73rd percentile for barrel rate, 89th percentile for avg exit velo. he’ll sign a major league deal somewhere for $8-10 million, easily.
In 2023, he was 14th in MVP voting at the ALCS MVP, maybe the issue is in your mind, not his.
He will get a solid one year deal from someone.
future San Francisco Giant
I wish the Royals took him instead of keeping India.
I’ll miss you Bombi. Thanks for everything in 2023.
What a travesty.
As a Mariners fan, this guy was fun to watch in 2023. He had his mojo working when it counted. Will have fond memories of him putting the Astros away.
What do you think the Ranger’s divison rivals did?
What do I think who did what? Come again?
The A’s Angels, Astros, Mariners, and Rangers. It’ll be a tight race if the Astros and Rangers really did lose as many wins to injures as the paper said, the Mariners (it’s obvious to anybody), the A’s, who have are pretty much done with their rebuild, and the Angels (who MIGHT compete).
I think you over-estimate Anaheim.
Yeah Rangers are losing 9 pitchers to free agency. Astros need to build out a starting rotation after Hunter Brown, right now it’s just reclamation projects and injury risks. Astros always somehow piece things together though. Can’t judge anything now at the start of the offseason of course. Both Texas teams may be taking a step back though. Lot of holes to fill. Angels will Angel and A’s will hit good but…West Sacramento and stuff.
Wait actually! The Rangers are losing NINE pitchers.
Lemme say they’ll be around .500 at best.
Seattle is in good shape, they’ll upgrade parts of it to create a World Series team.
Houston, unless it uses it’s money and isn’t injured as much, is dead.
Texas is declining, they need to do something to stay .500
A’s might need some extra resources?
Angels have less than 25% chance to compete.
Steroid crash
Dodgers there’s your outfield depth you’ve been asking for
I don’t understand what happened to Jonah Heim.
Decline alert
Reds blew it not acquiring Garcia for peanuts on a bloated one year deal. He has better bounce back potential than Hayes or most the guys they grab. He fills OF and HR needs too. Doubt they do better
Braves could sign Garcia for DH slot
Nah. They’re gonna have Acuna/Baldwin/Murphy rotate that.
Garcia is a player I wouldn’t mind seeing the Braves take a look at, too, depending on the cost. I don’t think they’re going to sign anyone to exclusively DH, but Garcia could find playing time between the OF and DH, since I think they’ll DH Acuna Jr occasionally to spell him a little. I think it’d be a good fit for Atlanta; although Garcia might prefer somewhere he’s an everyday starter.