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News: OF Adolis Garcia is being non-tendered by the Rangers, sources tell ESPN. After hitting .227 with 19 home runs and a .665 OPS, the 32 year-old is set to become a free agent. Had a 1.108 OPS in the '23 postseason.
The Texas Rangers will proceed into the franchise’s next era without multiple key figures of its last. The Rangers non-tendered the contracts of outfielder Adolis García and catcher Jonah Heim before Friday night’s roster deadline,
Major League Baseball's offseason cleared another important threshold at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, when the deadline for teams to tender 2026 contracts to their arbitration-eligible and pre-arbitration players passed.
The Rangers did not offer contracts to Adolis Garcia and Jonah Heim after both stars struggled at the plate over the past two seasons.
Outfielder Adolis García was non-tendered by the Rangers on Friday and will now become a free agent. García, 32, will always hold a special place in Rangers history for what he did during the team’s run to the 2023 World Series title,
Friday’s deadline is for setting the roster ahead of the winter meetings and the Rule 5 draft. The Rangers also added three players to the 40-man roster: Right-handers David Davalillo and Leandro Lopez and first baseman/outfielder Abimelec Ortiz.
Brice Paterik discusses what the Taylor Ward trade means for Adolis Garcia's value, which teams might want Garcia, and if Texas would cut Garcia and Jonah Heim.