{"id":258216,"date":"2025-11-03T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258216\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:01:08","slug":"rangers-losing-an-mlb-high-12-players-to-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258216\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers losing an MLB-high 12 players to free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> didn&#8217;t have the 2025 season they would&#8217;ve wanted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the roster might look a decent amount different.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB season ended on Saturday night when the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays in Game 7 of the World Series. That means the start of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the MLBPA put out a list of the veterans who are now free agents.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/clayton-kershaw-retirement-dodgers-historic-clutch-world-series-moment\/33e8277ff419c5b32449b755\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clayton Kershaw&#8217;s retirement from Dodgers ends with historic pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no more on one team than the Rangers have on theirs.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen Rangers are set to hit the open market:<\/p>\n<p>Shawn ArmstrongPatrick CorbinDaniel CoulombeJonathan GrayMerrill KellyTyler MahleChristopher MartinPhil MatonHoby MilnerDylan MooreDonovan SolanoRowdy Tellez<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-controversy-game-7-wrongly-overshadowed-unprecedented-world-series\/54b738888f361b42a5898fed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s clock controversy wasn&#8217;t worth it on a historic night<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, almost none of those guys feel like players the Rangers have to bring back.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bunch of starting pitching on the list, but not much current production.<\/p>\n<p>The bullpen arms are more solid, but even they aren&#8217;t must-haves.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Solano and Tellez and Moore can still be platoon bats, at best.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, it&#8217;s an underwhelming class. The Rangers will have a lot of gaps to fill for next season, but most of it will come on the fringes of the roster anyway, so the new-look team could depend on which shrewd pickups this month work out.<\/p>\n<p>More World Series news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers didn&#8217;t have the 2025 season they would&#8217;ve wanted. In 2026, the roster might look a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-258216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}