{"id":677364,"date":"2026-04-17T04:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677364\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:24:43","slug":"rangers-121-hr-hitter-asked-for-release-and-texas-let-him-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677364\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; 121-HR hitter asked for release, and Texas let him go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> brought aboard Mark Canha this offseason in hopes that the veteran utility man could win a spot on the MLB roster.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Canha missed out, and he hasn&#8217;t made it out of Triple-A yet.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably because of a clause in his contract allowing for this if he wasn&#8217;t in MLB yet, Canha was granted his release on Thursday night, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kennlandry\/status\/2044969281952346577\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Rangers announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canha will become a free agent, able to sign with any team.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year old is a career .248 MLB hitter with 121 home runs out of 879 hits.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\/news\/parker-messick-no-hit-bid-guardians-magic-mlb-night\/7763054b76b0e3d984b418d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A magical no-hit bid for the Cleveland Guardians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He played in 46 MLB games for the Royals in 2025 but really struggled with just a .537 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>At his peak, Canha was particularly known for his ability to hit well against left-handed pitching and play multiple positions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if Canha has much left in the tank this late in his career, but it seems like someone would at least give him a chance.<\/p>\n<p>He has played for the A&#8217;s, Mets, Tigers, Brewers, Giants and Royals.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\/news\/brewers-aaron-ashby-chasing-impossible-feat\/d4b91ddb97287b1fe1f85f64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This second-generation relief pitcher is on an absurd wins pace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canha had yet to appear in a game this regular season, not even down at Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever a release like this happens, there&#8217;s always some wondering about retirement. Canha can&#8217;t have that much more baseball to play.<\/p>\n<p>But at least right now, him requesting and being granted his release suggests he&#8217;s looking for another chance. It just won&#8217;t happen with Texas.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers brought aboard Mark Canha this offseason in hopes that the veteran utility man could win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-677364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rangers","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-rangers","13":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116418148609553689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677364","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=677364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}