The Rangers were one of the more active clubs at the MLB trade deadline, landing three veteran pitchers to boost the best pitching staff in baseball.
Two of the pitchers they landed are bullpen arms, one of them being Danny Coulombe from the Minnesota Twins. Coulombe, a 35-year-old left-handed arm, is in the middle of a career-best year. He compiled a 1.16 ERA across 40 appearances in his second stint with the Twins in 2025.
He has a 2.11 ERA over the last three seasons, which is good for the lowest among qualified relievers in all of baseball. The veteran lefty is not easy to create a righty-lefty advantage against at the plate, as righties have hit just .164 against him in 2025.
Here are five things to know about Coulombe, the Rangers’ newest left-handed bullpen arm.
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1. The basics
Name: Daniel Paul Coulombe
Born: Oct. 26, 1989 in St. Louis, Mo.
Ht.: 5-10 Wt.: 190 lb
Throws: Left
College: Texas Tech
Draft: 25th round, 2012 (Los Angeles Dodgers)
2. How the Rangers landed him
With Chris Young primarily in search of bullpen help for the Rangers ahead of the deadline, Coulombe was the first of three arms acquired.
Texas sent LHP Garrett Horn, their sixth-round pick in the 2024 draft, to Minnesota in the deal. The 22-year-old Horn was selected while undergoing rehab from Tommy John surgery, but returned and posted a 3.24 ERA in nine starts and 24 innings at Class A Hickory and the Arizona Complex League in 2025.
The acquisition of Coulombe creates a quartet of lefties in the Rangers’ bullpen, joining Hoby Milner, Jake Latz and closer Robert Garcia.
3. Red Raider
Coulombe had a winding college baseball journey, but he ended up landing at Texas Tech.
The Dodgers drafted him out of high school in the 17th round of the 2008 draft, but he opted to not sign and chose to attend USC. After his freshman year, he left USC and went to South Mountain Community College, but immediately suffered an injury and was shut down for the rest of the season.
After briefly considering giving up baseball, he transferred to Texas Tech for his junior year and was the Red Raiders’ opening day starter in 2011.
In his first season with Texas Tech, he tore his ulnar collateral ligament and underwent Tommy John surgery before returning for his senior season in Lubbock. The Dodgers drafted him again in 2012, which is where he ultimately signed and began his professional career.
4. Big-time high school pitcher
Coulombe’s bumpy college career undersells his prolific high school career.
As a senior at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., he went 9-0 with a 0.75 ERA and 138 strikeouts. That campaign earned him Rawlings All-America team and Baseball America third-team All-American honors, as well as being named the State Player of the Year.
Coulombe was a part of two state championship squads and set school records for career strikeouts, single-season strikeouts and single-game strikeouts.
5. Late bloomer
As talented as Coulombe was as a high school prospect prospect, he didn’t blossom in the major leagues for a while.
He made his MLB debut in 2014 with the Dodgers, but bounced between the Dodgers, Athletics and Twins before carving out a consistent role with the Orioles in 2023. He did post a 3.48 ERA in a team-leading 72 appearances for the Athletics in 2017, but outside of that, struggled to stick anywhere in the big leagues until 2023 with Baltimore when he was 33 years old.
Since 2023, he has posted 3.7 bWAR in 112 innings with the Orioles and Twins.
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