11:33am: Garcia is assured $14MM over the two-year time period, stories Jon Heyman of the New York Submit. The contract incorporates a sequence of escalators based mostly on MVP voting that might additional improve his wage in yr two of the deal.
10:58am: The Rangers have agreed to a two-year contract with star outfielder Adolis Garcia, stories Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning Information. The deal remains to be pending completion of a bodily, and there are nonetheless some particulars to be finalized, however the normal framework is in place. Garcia is represented by Octagon.
The settlement comes on the identical day that Garcia and the workforce had been slated to go to an arbitration listening to. Garcia’s camp had filed for a $6.9MM wage for the upcoming season, whereas the workforce had countered at $5MM. That listening to will now now not be mandatory, and the two-year time period on the deal eliminates the possibility of a listening to subsequent offseason as nicely. Garcia will nonetheless be beneath membership management for one remaining yr after this two-year pact attracts to a detailed, so the 2 sides will once more need to take care of a possible arb listening to within the 2025-26 offseason.
Garcia, 31 subsequent month, has emerged as a late-blooming star and one of many driving elements behind the Rangers’ 2023 World Sequence title. He’s been a key presence within the lineup and within the outfield for Texas in every of the previous three seasons, hitting .246/.305/.472 (110 wRC+) with plus protection and baserunning.
Garcia’s 2023 marketing campaign, nevertheless, was far and away his greatest total season thus far. Garcia posted a career-best 10.3% stroll charge and career-low 27.7% strikeout charge whereas hitting .245/.328/.508 with 39 house runs — second-most within the American League and tied for seventh-most in all of MLB. That efficiency earned Garcia an All-Star nod, and his premium protection resulted in his first profession Gold Glove Award. His heroics continued into the postseason, the place he hit .323/.382/.726 with a staggering eight house runs in simply 15 video games and 68 plate appearances. Garcia was on one other stage through the ALCS, when he clocked 5 house runs and slugged simply shy of .900 en path to ALCS MVP honors.
An ill-timed indirect pressure suffered on a swing throughout Sport 3 of the World Sequence prompted the Rangers to take away Garcia from their World Sequence roster, however Texas soldiered on with out their star proper fielder and toppled the upstart Diamondbacks in a 4-1 sequence victory. By all accounts, Garcia has lengthy since healed up from that damage and is a full-go for spring coaching.
Extra to come back.