Texas Rangers sign catcher Danny Jansen, relievers Alexis Diaz and Tyler Alexander

Texas Rangers sign catcher Danny Jansen, relievers Alexis Diaz and Tyler Alexander

After an eerily quiet winter meetings, the Rangers are on the board with three major league signings. But how much better do they make this team? You are Locked On Rangers, your daily Texas Rangers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. You are locked onto the Texas Rangers, the first and best daily Rangers podcast. I’m Bryce Patrick, a cripplingly addicted Texas Rangers fan covering this team for 12 seasons, including all seven as the founder and host of this podcast. Thank you so much for making Lockdown Rangers your first listen every single day. Part of the lockdown podcast network, now the number one podcast sports podcast network. If you’re not already, you can follow me on Twitter at Bryce Patrick. You can follow the show at lockdown rangers. Hit subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and on YouTube where the best we can help grow the show is to comment nearly any single thing below. On today’s show, we’re talking about the three major league signings that the Rangers made this weekend, how much better they make this Rangers team, and why these guys in particular. But before we get into all that, today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit FanDuel.com and place your NFL live bets all season long. Now, the Rangers did a whole lot of basically nothing during these winter meetings. Just some rumorings, some rumblings, not even all that many credible rumblings about what the Rangers were doing during the first and only three days of the winter meetings, Monday through Wednesday. And then late on Friday night, as is want to do, the Rangers announced some or I guess were leaked that they had some signings. I don’t think the official announcement has been made as of yet, but Texas made three signings late on Friday night, signing a catcher, Danny Jansen, to a 2year 14.5 million deal. They also signed right-handed reliever Alexis Diaz to a one-year deal and left-handed reliever Tyler Alexander to a one-year deal. The money on those last two deals has not yet been reported. So, we’re not exactly sure. But I I can imagine I can imagine it is all that expensive. But I want to focus primarily on Danny Jensen. Not just because it’s the only multi-year deal here, but because it’s the biggest deal because I think Danny Jansen is going to be the Rangers everyday catcher. Now, what does Danny Jensen bring offensively? He’s at least a league average bat. He brings on base percentage. Now, for me as a catcher, a catcher offense is just such a difficult thing to capture. It is such a difficult thing to have. There are not that many catchers who can hit well. And if you do have a catcher who can hit well, having them hit well for multiple multiple seasons, that’s a very, very rare thing. That’s what made this season by Cal Raleigh just so incredibly special. And heck, the last few years by Cal Raleigh so incredibly special. why he got that big old extension is because catchers who can hit like that are one in a million. Even catchers who can hit above average are pretty pretty uncommon at this point. And so for me as a catcher, if you are a good defender at catcher, maybe not Austin Hedges, but if you are a good defender at catcher, you got to give me one thing you can do offensively, one thing you can really bring to the plate offensively to make yourself a decent player. If you’re at least a league average hitter and you have one elite skill or even just pretty darn good skill at the plate, then that’s fine. I think that’s truly fine for a catcher. And this is not some big old deal. It’s $14.5 million for two years. So basically $74 million per year for a catcher. That’s about what the starting rate for these catchers was going to be. I believe this means Victor Keratini will probably get a bigger deal than this. Keratini is coming off of a better season than Danny Jansen. But Jansen last year a 720 OPS and on base at 321. And last year you look at his baseball savant page and it’s it’s got a lot of blue. But in the very very bright red is his chase percentage and his walk rate. So what Danny Jansen does is he pulls the ball in the air with authority or as much authority as he can muster and he does not chase outside the strike zone and he walks. So that is a good good combination. Last year 14 home runs for the backs stop splitting time between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers. And if you want a fun fact about Danny Jansen that you haven’t heard this one already, he is the first and only catcher to switch teams midame. Now technically it’s because he was a part of the Toronto Blue Jays. The game was cancelled or at least postponed halfway through it and then he got traded to the Red Sox. The Red Sox and the Blue Jays played. So Danny Jensen played in the second part of that game when it was restarted later on in the season after he was a member of the Red Sox. the only team to appear in the box, the only player to appear in a box score for both teams in the same game. That is Danny Jensen. And just a fun little fact that I think got blown a little out of proportion of how fun it was. I I truly delighted in that fun fact, but I I hope the Rangers don’t have to have that kind of a thing happen for them this season because that would mean they’re trading Danny Jensen, who is a competent bat. He is a competent bat. He is exceptional at blocking pitches. That is a thing that he does incredibly well behind the plate. He is a good receiver. He is not a great pitch framer. He is not great at controlling the running game, something the Rangers were really, really bad at defensively last year. I think part of this because his framing numbers have been so bad for the last couple years. Maybe it’s partly the Rangers thinking, okay, there’s going to be automatic balls and strikes, so if he’s a bad framer, it doesn’t really matter as much. I think that’s part of the reasoning. or if it’s not going to be a thing in 2026, then it’s probably going to be a thing in 2027. The ABS system is coming for Major League Baseball eventually. I just don’t know exactly when. And I think this signing kind of shows a little bit of that. But the main thing is that Danny Jensen is an adult in the room. The Rangers are not going to go with Willie Macyver as their primary backup catcher and ask Higgy to catch 120 games in 2026. That did not feel like a feasible plan. That did not feel like a smart plan. It did not feel like a plan that you could go into the season and expect to win a lot of baseball games or at least even a decent number of baseball games. You have a guy who’s not really tested back there as your backup catcher. It just did not feel like a move that a team that is pretending to be a contender, might actually be a contender, but is at least giving the look of being contender. You cannot go into the season without just legit dudes, fine big leaguers at every single position. You just can’t do it. And while I love Kyle Hagasha, he’s heading into his age 36 season. He is getting a little bit on the older side. Last year overall offensively, according to OPS Plus, he was an above league average hitter. And that’s what Danny Jansen was last year as well. Much better in 25 games with the Milwaukee Brewers than he was with the Tampa Bay Rays, at least offensively. A 117 OPS in 25 games in Milwaukee versus a 96 OPS plus with the Tampa Bay Rays in 73 games there. Overall, above average, 101 OPS plus player. That’s solid. That’s fine. That’s good. If he’s closer to what he was in Milwaukee, that would be a really great signing. In the past, he has been a pretty darn good hitter. His best season coming in 2022. He had 15 home runs that year and 855 OPS, a 142 OPS plus on base for his career at 311. That’s solid. That’s fine. That’s pretty decent for a catcher who is just going to be another adult in the room. This is Rangers showing, hey, we know that we had a hole at catcher last season. Jonah, as much as he is beloved for that World Series run, that all-star season in 2023, he has been awful for the last couple of seasons. It’s why the Rangers not tendered him. It’s why the Rangers needed to go and get a different catcher to back up or start ahead of Kyle Hagashi this season. And it’s why they went and got Danny Jensen. He is a big boy in the room. He is going to control the pitching staff. He is going to be a veteran back stop, he is going to be here for multiple seasons to the point where maybe Malcolm Moore, who was the Rangers first round pick back in 2024. Maybe by the time that deal is expired, Malcolm Moore is knocking on the door of the big leagues, he’s still quite a ways away. He was in high this season. It was a rough rough year for the former Stanford boy. Just a tough year on catchers in general in this farm system. There’s not a whole lot of guys you look up and down this farm system and say, “Hey, that guy could be a major league catcher one day.” There’s just not a whole lot there. Catchers are unicorns. They are difficult to find. They are very difficult to have good homegrown catchers. And so, the Rangers give themselves a little bit of time with Malcolm Moore to kind of find out is he going to be that next guy? Are the Rangers going to have to go and and find some other avenue for a long-term catcher? But catcher has just kind of been a revolving door for the Rangers for for a while. Jonah was thought to be the long-term solution. And after a decent season in 2022 and a very good season in 2023, he has just been nowhere close to that the last couple years. And Danny Jansen provides that adult in the room at catcher that the Rangers desperately needed. But what does this mean for the Rangers offense just as a whole of what they’re bringing in in general to replace some of these guys? Talk about that and more right after this. This show is brought to you by FanDuel. NFL Sundays move fast. One big play and suddenly everything feels feels so different. That’s what makes live betting with FanDuel so exciting. You’re not just watching the game, you’re reacting to it in real time. With FanDuel, you can place bets as the action unfolds. Every drive, every momentum swing, every single highlight moment. Let’s look at some of these odds for FanDuel right now for the World Series right now. Somehow these signings did not propel the Rangers up higher in these uh World Series odds. They are still tied with the Rays at plus 5,000 behind the likes of the Reds, the Royals, the Giants, the Tigers, the Guardians as well. Way down there in the middle of the pack. Danny Jansen signing not putting FanDuel over the top on the Rangers World Series odds in 2026. So, if you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit fanuel.com and place your NFL live bets all season long. FanDuel, the game moved fast and so can you. Shout out to making lock on Rangers your first every single day. On tomorrow’s show, I’ll talk a little bit more about what these two relief signings mean for this bullpen. What do the Rangers still need to do in their bullpen on tomorrow’s episode of Locked on Rangers. Now, part of the reason that the Rangers moved on from several guys on their roster, including Marcus Simeon, including the likes of Jodahheim, including the likes of Adul Garcia, is that they were not getting on base. They were very bad at getting on base. And now the replacements for those guys are just a little bit better, in some cases, pretty significantly better at getting on base. The Rangers did not score enough runs last season. And the thought, according to their logic, is apparently four base runners equals a run. Now, with the Rangers lack of hitting with runners in scoring position last year, I’m a little more skeptical that four base runners always equals a run. That was not the case last year. There were so many base runner. The Raiders had their opportunity runners in scoring positions last year and they did not capitalize. But offensively on base wise, these guys were not good. Jonah especially was pretty terrible at getting on base last year. Just would not work a walk. Just 32 walks in 433 plate appearances while also hitting 213 led to an on base percentage in the 270s. That is just not good. Same with Garcia. A 271 on base percentage. Both him and Jonah just truly not anywhere near good enough in terms of the onbass department. And Marcus Simeon also not particularly great as an on-base guy. wasn’t the really the Rangers leadoff hitter basically from what was it May on I mean he started as the Rangers leadoff hitter had been the Rangers leadoff hitter basically since he signed and the on base just was not good enough for a guy at the top of this lineup a 305 on base percentage for him and now with Brandon NMO they bring in a guy who has a career on base percentage in the 360s with Danny Jansen his on base percentage last year at 346 if you just look at the 25 games in Milwaukee overall a 321 on base percentage, a guy with an elite walk rate. And then Josh Smith probably taking over every day at second base. He had a 335 on base percentage last year. So the Rangers getting on base a lot more is a big priority for them this off seasonason. And they took some drastic change to changes to go and do it. Getting rid of Adolles Garcia, getting rid of Jonah, getting rid of three starters on that World Series championship team. three guys who were allstars just two years ago and saying this isn’t good enough. The last two years has been really rough and we need to make some dramatic changes. And that’s exactly what they did. They also made some not so dramatic changes in the bullpen, signing Tyler Alexander and signing Alexis Diaz to some deals. There’s a quote that just made me scratch my head just a little bit by Ross Fstermaker who is the Rangers general manager under Pobo Chris Young. He said, quote, “Last year we wanted to get back to dominating the strike zone. So, we targeted pitchers with a historical track record of throwing strikes and attacking the zone.” He said, “I think it’s going to be much more the same going forward, but that is a kind of fundamental truth and a through point for us in terms of our pitching philosophy.” Kennedy Landry in her article said yes, both Diaz and Alexander both fit the build of guys who attacked the strike zone. And while Tyler Alexand Tyler Alexander, that’s just a lot of words all there all together. The former South Lake Carol boy, the former TCU boy, he is a guy who does attack the strike zone last year. His walk rate in the top oneird of baseball of just not walking guys, not allowing hard contact. a soft tossing lefty who overall did not have the best season with the Chicago White Socks. 97 and two/3 innings, 82 strikeouts. Did start a few games for the White Sox, but an RA of 498. That is a little less than ideal, but he attacked the strike zone. He did not walk, guys. Think a little bit of a a bo Hobie Milner type of signing. I have a problem with them saying yes, Alexis Diaz, that is a guy who stays in the strike zone because he’s flat out not. He has never been a guy who stays in the strike zone. Now, don’t get me wrong, this was an awful year for Alexis Diaz and in the past, he has been a very good reliever and he has been a very good closer at times with the Cincinnati Reds. Spent the first three seasons of his career in Cincinnati. Last year, started the season with Cincinnati. was awful. Went to the Dodgers for nine games, was not good there, and then finished the season with the Atlanta Braves, and was also not very good there. But in his best season was 2023, finished the year with 37 saves with the Reds, a .307 RA, an RA plus of 152, because it is hard to have a very good erra as a member of the Cincinnati Reds because that is a very, very homer friendly ballpark. The year before he had a 184 erra in 59 games as a member of the Cincinnati Reds. That is a really difficult thing to do. He had 28 saves in 2024 with Cincinnati an RA below four by just a tick. Um so 75 career saves in four career seasons. Still on the right side of 30 heading into his age 29 season. But in terms of guys who attack the strike zone and do not walk guys, that’s not him. He has a career walk walks per nine of 4.9. 4.9 walks per nine. A batter walked every other inning. That is not a guy who was attacking the strike zone. You look at his walk rate last year, 14.1%. That is significantly worse than league average. League average walk rate is 8.4%. So that’s not quite double, but pretty darn close to being double what the career average walk rate is last year. This is not a guy who attacks the strike zone. It wasn’t just last year either. I mean, his 12.8% walk rate in 2024. That was in the bottom 3% of baseball, bottom 6% of baseball the year before that, and then the bottom 2% of baseball in his rookie season in 2022. So even when he was at his best, this is not a guy who is staying in the strike zone. And he is a two- pitch pitcher. A forseam fast ball and a slider. Those are his two pitches. That is what he sticks with. Last year a little bit mechanically got out of whack with a hamstring injury in spring training. And that kind of led to maybe everything going downhill. Maybe the Rangers think, okay, this guy is is really really talented. He has been exceptional in the past. It’s been a little while. It’s been a couple of seasons since he’s been an all-star, but maybe we see something in his mechanics or in his delivery, or maybe we see some extra pitch that he could be throwing that he’s not that could make him a successful reliever. I’m not entirely sure what they see, but they see something. And as of right now, for the last couple years, they they’ve kind of earned the benefit of the doubt for the most part on some of these B low signings. They have earned the benefit of the doubt because of how many good signings they had last year in their bullpen. Not all of them were good. Not every single one of them was good, but for the most part, they were pretty darn solid. I mean, getting Shawn Armstrong to be that level of reliever on a deal for less than $1.5 million, that’s an absolute steal. Getting that kind of value out of Hobie Milner at 2 and a half mil, that was a steal. Jacob Webb being a fine middle reliever for one and a half $2 million. Also great deal. Robert Garcia smart trade. Chris Martin was about what Chris Martin has been. Luke Jackson, eh, not great, but overall that was a really, really solid bullpen that the Rangers built last year and get after you have that much success, especially even the year before of buying that low on Kirby Yates and getting the second best reliever in all of baseball out of him. But after a couple of seasons, after many, many seasons spent on the IIL and a season before he was just kind of okay with the Braves, a little bit better than some of these other signings have been the last couple of years, but they’ve earned the benefit of the doubt on these guys. But what do these guys bring this team in terms of their bullpen? And what do we do about the Rangers missing out on one of their key starting rotation pieces going back to the team the Rangers traded for last year? Talk about all that and more right after this. This show is brought to you by Game Time. The World Cup is coming back to North America for the first time since 1994. 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Now, the Rangers have added some pieces to this bullpen, signing both Tyler Alexander and Alexis Diaz, guys. So, I think we’ll slot in there maybe in the sixth, seventh inning. Not exactly high leverage guys. And Alexander has been a guy who he’s had a couple of good seasons. But overall, I think this is just the Rangers buying pretty darn low on their bullpen piece pieces, which you know, they’ve they’ve been fine at for the last couple of seasons. And I just I had another quote from Roster F Ross Fster Maker that I just had a little bit of an issue with because it’s not it’s not true. He said that he didn’t think that the Rangers were focused on some bargains. He said stuff is valued in the game. quote, I don’t think nec that necess we’re necessarily looking for bargains by any means. We’re just looking for the focused fits for the Texas Rangers. End quote that. Yes, you are. Yeah, Ross. Yes, you are. You are shopping in the bargain bin for these guys. Tyler Alexander had nearly a five RA the last three seasons. If that’s not shopping in the bargain bin, I don’t particularly know what is. With Alexis Diaz having an erra north of eight with three different teams last year, none of them giving him even 10 games to figure things out. I think yeah, you’re shopping a little bit in the bargain bin. The entirety of your offseason plan so far has been we poor, we can’t spend money. And it has been advertised over and over and over and over and over again. And if that’s your plan, that’s your plan. You can do good things on a budget. You can build successful baseball teams on a budget if you have the right infrastructure in there. And seems like maybe the Rangers do. It’s not quite to the Rays or Brewers level, but still the Rangers have had some success with some of these under the radar signings, but they are buying low. It would have been much easier to say, “Hey, Alexis Diaz, yeah, you’re good, but your brother’s a whole lot better. Let’s go give Edwin Diaz 3 years, $70 million. Go beat out the Dodgers to a reliever and spend a whole bunch of money on the guy who has been exceptional for basically the entirety of his big lewig career. It would have been much easier to go and throw a whole bunch of money at JT Rialuto and say, “Hey, yeah, this guy’s been a very, very successful catcher at the big lew for quite some time. Let’s go throw some money at that.” or hey, let’s go throw, you know, $45 million at Robert Suarez, throw him in the back end of this bullpen. It would have been much easier to go and do that. Maybe much smarter because it’s not my money, but if you’re on a budget, say you’re on a budget. Don’t beat around the bush. Everybody knows that this team is not wanting to spend a whole lot of money or really they’d rather not spend any money this off season if ownership had their way. But you do have to spend money on some baseball players occasionally. And so far, the Rangers have done that. They still have some holes in their bullpen. I would still like them to sign another reliever or two that are actually good. Not just by low, but actually good, solid relievers. If Shawn Armstrong doesn’t come back, that is going to be, I think, a pretty colossal failure by this Rangers team to not bring back a guy that was so incredible last year. And the Rangers also missed out on bringing back Mel Kelly. I don’t mind that so much. He is going back to Arizona for two years, $40 million. And I don’t think anybody else was willing to match that price point price point for Mel Kelly. He is now going back to the team. The Rangers traded two of their top 20, top 15 prospect, depending on who you ask, for half a season of okay baseball. He was fine. He was not great. He had some really terrible starts at some really key moments for the Rangers. But giving two years and $20 million per year to a guy heading into his age 37 season, I think more says things about the Diamondbacks than it does about Mel Kelly. They love Mel Kelly. I’m sure it broke their hearts a little bit to trade him away at the deadline, especially since down the stretch it seems like they could have used one more extra starting pitcher and maybe they would have been sneaking into that final spot in the wild card instead of those Reds maybe having some kind of a chance against the Dodgers. probably not with how good the Dodgers ended up being this postseason. But, uh, that is going to look like a really frustrating trade for the Rangers. And the Diamondbacks are just in desperate, desperate, desperate need of pitching, especially with both of their, you know, for the last couple of seasons, their co-aces hitting the free agent market. Well, one of them they traded away and then is still a free agent and Mel Kelly. They’re bringing him back. Zack Gallon is a free agent this year as well. And they are just in desperate need of any kind of starting pitching. They’ve got a really good offense. They are still listening to trade talks on Catal Morte. I’m sure they are looking for big league ready starting pitching because right now their rotation is uh maybe Eduardo Rodriguez as their opening day starter. Maybe it’s Ryan Nelson. Maybe it’s Brandon Thought. I’m not really sure exactly what it looks like. At some point Corbin Burns is going to come back there. But I think it more says that the Diamondbacks were super desperate for starting pitching than that anybody else was going to give Mel Kelly two years. let alone $20 million per year. Maybe some other team would have seen Melro Kelly in his track record of being healthy, making a start every fifth day for the most part. And even though he’s hitting heading into his late 30s, still saying, “Yeah, that’s valuable. A guy who is a mid-rotation starter who can go and take the ball every fifth day, who can go and be serviceable, and a guy who you can throw out there in a postseason game to start as your game three or game four starter. And if things go, you know, poorly with gradation, he could be a game two starter, depending on how good of a season he’s having. I don’t think that this is just a case that, uh, every starting pitcher now now on the market is going to be super super expensive. I think that this was more of a, you know, a fitbased crazy overpay for the Diamondbacks. I really do think it was a huge, huge overpay for them because I mean, real Kelly is fine. He is a solid mid- rotation starter, but two years $40 million for any guy who is 37 years old, unless you’re paying Barry Bonds age 37, which I’d feel pretty good about paying Barry Bonds $20 million for a two-year deal at his age 37 season. But, uh, still, I mean, there there’s a lot of guys that are still out there. I don’t know exactly what the kind of market is going to look like for Robert Frober Valdez. I’m sure Diamondback’s at least, you know, checked in on that. There’s still some really really good starting pitchers that are available in Ranger Suarez, in Michael King, in Shoto Imanaga. Um, I think those guys are uh at least, you know, interesting, but I don’t think that this means that the Rangers are going to have to spend a whole lot of money on whatever starting pitcher that they’re going to sign. Don’t know how this would necessarily influence the deal for Tyler Mi, what kind of a deal he might be looking for, but I mean the most most valuable thing that Mel Kelly does is he posts. And for the guys that the Rangers are looking at in their rotation, or at least who I think they’re looking at because right now I don’t really necessarily know who they’re looking at in their rotation. If they are looking at bringing back Tyler Mi, that is not the skill that he brings to the table. That’s why I think he’ll get a little bit lesser of a deal than Mel Kelly because not just last year, but the year before that, the year before that, and and just for the vast majority of Tyler Mau’s career, he has not been the most durable pitcher. But overall, with these three signings, I’m a little annoyed that it happened on Friday night and not, you know, on on, you know, late Sunday night, early Monday morning. To me, that would have been particularly ideal. But at least this shows the Rangers aren’t going to go the entirety of this off seasonason without signing a legit adult in the room. It it shows that they still probably have some money to spend on the free on the free agent market for a starting pitcher. Whether that’s just one, whether that’s two starting pitchers, I still think there is a move left to be made in the bullpen. I still think the Rangers could use an extra right-handed bat that could just mash left-handed pitching. I would really, really, really love if that was Rob Snder coming off of a great season with the Red Sox where basically all he did was annihilate left-handed pitching and he was one of the best in the league at it. I think right now adding Danny Jensen gives the Rangers a little bit more depth in this lineup of just a guy who’s going to be at least fine. Not having black holes in this lineup is important. is something the Rangers desperately need cuz at times last year the Rangers had multiple different just offensive black holes in their lineup. For long stretches, if not the vast majority of the season, Jonah was kind of a black hole offensively. For the first half of the season, Jock Peterson when he was healthy was a black hole in this lineup at times. For the month of June, Josh Young was awful offensively. And Danny Jensen, while it’s not sexy, it’s not flashy, it’s not all that exciting, he is a legitimate adult in the room, a competent hitter, a good defender, and someone who is at least going to start probably 80 to 90 something games at catcher, give Kyle Hagashio a couple more days off of his feet, and just be one more guy in this lineup that isn’t just a free out. And for an offense that was full of them last year, that’s a pretty nice upgrade. That’s going to do it for today’s show. Thank you’all so much for listening and subscribing. And until next time, don’t forget to enjoy baseball.

The Texas Rangers bolstered their offense and their catching tandem by signing Danny Jansen to a two-year deal. Jonah Heim struggled mightily the last two seasons and Jansen gives Texas a solid starting catcher and a decent bat.

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