{"id":192431,"date":"2026-03-05T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:24:08","slug":"texas-rangers-sign-former-nl-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192431\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers sign former NL MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers have some new faces going into the 2026 MLB season. On Thursday, they added another one with former Pittsburgh Pirates star and one-time National League MVP Andrew McCutchen signing a minor league deal with the club, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Evan_P_Grant\/status\/2029571743073931647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spring training is already underway, so McCutchen doesn\u2019t have much time to get acclimated as he hopes to land a spot on the Opening Day roster. <\/p>\n<p>The Rangers have been busy, <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/baseball\/mets-marcus-semien-brandon-nimmo-trade-rangers\/728320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquiring Brandon Nimmo in a trade<\/a> that sent Marcus Semien to the New York Mets. <\/p>\n<p>Manager Bruce Bochy and the Rangers parted ways after the season, and <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/baseball\/rangers-manager-skip-schumaker-bruce-bochy\/720442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skip Schumaker was promoted <\/a>to the position. And, the Rangers landed Washington Nationals All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/baseball\/texas-rangers-pitcher-mackenzie-gore-trade\/737547\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pitcher MacKenzie Gore in a blockbuster trade<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>McCutchen spent the first nine seasons of his MLB career with the Pirates, making the All-Star team five times, winning four Silver Slugger awards, one Gold Glove, and being named the NL MVP in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>McCutchen then spent time with the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies (3 seasons), and Milwaukee Brewers before returning to the Pirates for the past three seasons. <\/p>\n<p>In 2025, McCutchen hit .239 with 13 home runs and 57 RBIs in 135 games, but the Pirates\u2019 signing of Marcell Ozuna all but signaled the end of his time in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Langford, Evan Carter and Nimmo figure to be the starting outfield for Texas, but McCutchen should have a chance to make the roster as a reserve. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers have some new faces going into the 2026 MLB season. On Thursday, they added another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[76304,150,152,151,429],"class_list":{"0":"post-192431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-andrew-mccutchen","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-arlington-headlines","11":"tag-arlington-news","12":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}