The Texas Rangers have dug into their change pocket again to find more money 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.<\/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
The move comes a day after it was revealed that Atlanta\u2019s Jurickson Profar had been suspended for the full season for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. It had been rumored that McCutchen might 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 hitter coming off a poor year. Pederson is 3 for 12 this spring, all singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers have dug into their change pocket again to find more money for a potential right-handed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[1151,2309,5,2316,2314,2317,2313,2325,2413,5021,813,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2327,2321,185,2311,1039],"class_list":["post-609423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-designated-hitter","tag-jurickson-profar","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-baseball","tag-sports","tag-team-sports","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}