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The Texas Rangers lost their series against the Toronto Blue Jays earlier this week and decided to sign former Blue Jays outfielder Billy McKinney to a deal right after the series.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays ended up walking away with the series win earlier this week against the Rangers in an extremely low scoring series where a total of 7 runs scored between both teams.<\/p>\n
Rangers sign former Blue Jays outfielder Billy McKinney<\/p>\n
The Rangers announced that they decided to sign former Blue Jays outfielder Billy McKinney to a minor league deal as he has already been assigned to the minor league team in Round Rock.<\/p>\n
The Rangers signed Alan Trejo and Billy McKinney to minor league contracts. Both moves were initially reflected on the MiLB.com transaction log, and they’ve each already appeared for Triple-A Round Rock. -Franco<\/p>\n
McKinney<\/a> was recently released by the New York Mets after struggling with their minor league affiliate team in which he had a .184 batting average with a .285 on base percentage and 3 homeruns on the season.<\/p>\n He’d been out to a rough start for the Mets’ top farm team, hitting .184\/.285\/.307 with 34 strikeouts over 33 games. -Franco<\/p>\n Since landing in Texas, McKinney has already been playing much better in his first few games as he currently has a .300 batting average with a .417 on base percentage and .817 OPS which is on a small sample size but is still much better.<\/p>\n McKinney<\/a>‘s best season in the MLB came back in 2019 with the Blue Jays in which he played in 84 games as he finished the season with a .215 batting average, .274 on base percentage and 12 homeruns with 28 RBIs.<\/p>\n The chances of McKinney seeing anymore time in the MLB if he does figure out a way to dominate in Triple-A are very slim as his numbers over the last few years between the majors and minors.<\/p>\n Previously on Blue Jays Insider<\/p>\n POLL<\/p>\n 19 MINUTES AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 ANSWERS<\/p>\n The Texas Rangers acquired former Toronto Blue Jays outfielder after series loss to Toronto<\/p>\n Was signing Billy McKinney a desperate move by the Rangers?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tBLUEJAYSINSIDER.COM
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