The Texas Rangers have agreed to one year contracts with righthanded reliever Alexis Diaz and lefthanded reliever Tyler Alexander, per reports. This news broke literally as I hit publish on the post regarding the Rangers agreeing to a deal with Danny Jansen. No financial terms on the deals with the pitchers, which I assume are major league deals, and for probably not a whole lot more than the league minimum.

Diaz, 29, came up with the Cincinnati Reds, and had three successful seasons for them in the pen from 2022-24 before having an awful 2025 season which saw him put up an 8.15 ERA in 17.2 IP for the Reds, Dodgers and Braves. His struggles in 2025 were due to not missing bats and giving up bombs — 6 homers in 17.2 IP, a 3.1 HR/9 ratio. Even in his 25 innings in AAA, he had problems, allo

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