{"id":48129,"date":"2025-11-22T01:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48129\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:15:04","slug":"rangers-non-tender-two-time-all-star-adolis-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48129\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers non-tender two-time All-Star Adolis Garc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adolis Garc\u00eda is no longer a Ranger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The franchise non-tendered Garc\u00eda ahead of Friday\u2019s deadline after a disappointing 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda slashed a career-worst .227\/.271\/.394 with 19 home runs last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he wasn\u2019t much better the year before, hitting .224\/.284\/.400 with 25 long balls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37734309\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP_Rangers_Athletics_Baseball_78314-e88b8-0.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball player Adolis Garc\u00eda of the Texas Rangers running.\" class=\"wp-image-37734309\"  \/>Texas Rangers\u2019 Adolis Garc\u00eda runs to first base after hitting an RBI single during the seventh inning against the Athletics, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. AP<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers also non-tendered catcher Jonah Heim and right-handers Josh Sborz and Jacob Webb.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to express the club\u2019s sincere appreciation for the efforts of each of the four players included in today\u2019s announcement,\u201d Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said in a statement after the moves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless 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. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As recently as two seasons ago, Garc\u00eda, 32, was one of the best hitters in baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37734337\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20250823_jpm_an4_M26802.jpg\" alt=\"Adolis Garcia of the Texas Rangers celebrating after hitting a home run.\" class=\"wp-image-37734337\"  \/>Texas Rangers right fielder Adolis Garcia (53) rounds the bases after he hits a two run home run against the Cleveland Guardians during the fifth inning at Globe Life Field. Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Garc\u00eda, who has spent his entire seven-year big league career with Texas, posted an .836 OPS with 39 home runs and 107 RBIs en route to his second All-Star appearance and his first and only Gold Glove award.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda was the hero of the Rangers\u2019 championship run that year, winning the American League Championship Series MVP and hitting .323\/.382\/.726 with eight homers and 22 RBIs overall that postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was projected to make about $12 million in arbitration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers are apparently retooling this offseason after two straight disappointing campaigns since that World Series win, finishing outside the playoff picture and in third place in the AL West in both seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adolis Garc\u00eda is no longer a Ranger.\u00a0 The franchise non-tendered Garc\u00eda ahead of Friday\u2019s deadline after a disappointing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,3473,9,11,10,319,24627],"class_list":{"0":"post-48129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-mlb-free-agency","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}