With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025.
Today we are looking at Kyle Higashioka.
Fun fact: Kyle Higashioka got the most guaranteed money of any free agent catcher last offseason.
Seriously. You can see MLB.com’s free agent track from last offseason here. Aside from Higashioka, here’s the catchers who were free agents at the end of 2024 who got major league deals last winter:
Travis d’Arnaud
Danny Jansen
Carson Kelly
Austin Hedges
Elias Diaz
Jacob Stallings
Gary Sanchez
Jared Young
Kelly and d’Arnaud, like Higashioka, got two year deals. Everyone else got a one year deal. Jansen did the best in annual value, at $8.5 mil