{"id":506316,"date":"2026-03-06T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:51:09","slug":"texas-rangers-former-nl-mvp-andrew-mccutchen-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506316\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers, former NL MVP Andrew McCutchen agree to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Rangers<\/a> have dug into their change pocket again to find some more money to spare for a potential right-handed outfield bat, agreeing to a minor league deal with former NL MVP Andrew McCutchen, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The deal is still subject to a physical. <\/p>\n

McCutchen, 39, spent the last three seasons with Pittsburgh where he also began his career and enjoyed his most success. He was durable last year, playing 135 games almost exclusively as a DH. He slashed .239\/.333\/.367\/.700 with 13 homers. More importantly, McCutchen, a right-handed hitter, had a .799 OPS against left-handed starters last year, making him a viable candidate as a platoon DH.<\/p>\n

McCutchen would earn $1.5 million in base salary if he makes the team. He could push it up to $2.5 million with performance bonuses. <\/p>\n

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The move comes a day after it was revealed that Atlanta\u2019s Jurickson Profar had been suspended for the full season<\/a> for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. It had been rumored that McCutchen might then end up with the Braves as a replacement. <\/p>\n

The Rangers already have signed one veteran right-handed hitter as a potential part-time DH: Mark Canha. The 37-year-old is 4 for 14 in spring training with all four hits being singles. Joc Pederson, the primary DH, is a left-handed swinger coming off a poor year. Pederson is 3 for 12 this spring, all singles. <\/p>\n

At the very least, McCutchen provides a little more competition and some depth from which the Rangers can choose.<\/p>\n

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Find more Rangers coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers have dug into their change pocket again to find some more money to spare for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[14537,9895,99,2330],"class_list":["post-506316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brief","tag-rangers","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}