{"id":66054,"date":"2025-11-23T04:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66054\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:28:15","slug":"rangers-move-on-from-2023-world-series-hero-adolis-garcia-c-jonah-heim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66054\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers move on from 2023 World Series hero Adolis Garcia, C Jonah Heim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Item 1 of 4 Aug 27, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA;  Texas Rangers right fielder Adolis Garcia (53) reacts after hitting a three-run home run during the first inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>[1\/4]Aug 27, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA;  Texas Rangers right fielder Adolis Garcia (53) reacts after hitting a three-run home run during the first inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/item\/mlb-los-angeles-angels-at-texas-rangers\/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjU6bmV3c21sX01UMVVTQVRPREFZMjY5NDExMzQ%3D\/?utm_medium=rcom-article-media&amp;utm_campaign=rcom-rcp-lead\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC link-module__with-icon__qlg76 collapsible-caption-module__license__CPQvV\">Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>November 22 &#8211; The Texas Rangers parted ways with 2023 World Series hero Adolis Garcia and catcher Jonah Heim on Friday to kickstart a revamping of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers non-tendered both players before Friday&#8217;s deadline as part of the plan to reduce payroll. The players immediately became free agents.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia and Heim were both All-Stars in 2023 when the Rangers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games in the World Series. Garcia was MVP of the American League Championship Series and famously belted a 11th-inning walk-off homer to win Game 1 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Right-handers Josh Sborz and Jacob Webb were also non-tendered and became free agents. Sborz also was a member of the 2023 squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of what happens moving forward, Adolis, Jonah, and Josh will always be remembered for their contributions to the first World Series title in franchise history,&#8221; Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said in a statement. &#8220;Those memories will forever hold a special place in the hearts of Rangers fans. We are grateful for their time in Texas and the mark they have left on this franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, 32, had 141 homers and 458 RBIs in 745 games over five-plus seasons with the Rangers. The two-time All-Star outfielder had career-best figures of 39 homers and 107 RBIs in 2023 but had just 19 homers and 75 RBIs last season.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia batted .323 with eight homers and 22 RBIs in 15 games during his stellar 2023 postseason run.<\/p>\n<p>Heim, 30, has career bests of 18 homers and 95 RBIs in 2023, his lone All-Star season. Last season, he batted .213 with 11 homers and 43 RBIs in 124 games.<\/p>\n<p>Sborz, 31, missed the 2025 season due to right shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Webb, 32, was 5-4 with a 3.00 ERA in 55 relief appearances in 2025 in his lone season with Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Texas agreed to a one-year deal with outfielder Sam Haggerty on Friday to avoid arbitration. The 31-year-old batted .253 with two homers and 13 RBIs in 64 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has four other arbitration-eligible players: First baseman Jake Burger, third baseman Josh Jung and infielders Ezequiel Duran and Josh Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers and manager Bruce Bochy mutually parted ways after the 2025 season. Skip Schumaker is the new manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">Our Standards: <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__medium__2Rl30 text-module__small__sph8i link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC link-module__with-icon__qlg76\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersagency.com\/en\/licensereuterscontent\/?utm_medium=rcom-article-media&amp;utm_campaign=rcom-rcp-lead\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"button-module__link__A3sD0 button-module__secondary__70gBu button-module__round__QDFgq button-module__w_auto__Sem-F\" data-testid=\"LicenceContentButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Item 1 of 4 Aug 27, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; Texas Rangers right fielder Adolis Garcia (53) reacts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7203,7204,691,1263],"class_list":["post-66054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-base","tag-bbo","tag-destousspm","tag-spo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}