Right-handed pitcher Tyler Mahle, a free agent, inked a two-year, $22 million deal with the Texas Rangers. $16.5 million in 2025 and $5.5 million in 2024 will be given to Mahle.

There are 38 players on the Rangers’ 40-man roster as of right now.

Mahle, who is 29 years old, will likely miss the start of the 2024 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery that he had in May of 2023. Dr. Keith Meister, the team surgeon for the Rangers, carried out the surgery.

Before being placed on the 15-day injured list on May 3, Mahle had a 1-2 record, a 3.16 ERA, and 28 strikeouts in five starts for Minnesota in 2023. The cause of his injury was a right arm posterior impingement and a flexor pronator strain. Later, on May 5, he was placed on the 60-day injured list, and on May 22, he had surgery to repair his throwing elbow, which would end his season.

Mahle has a record of 22-18 with a 3.90 ERA and 424 strikeouts in 71 games (70 starts) since the beginning of the 2020 season. He is ranked in several statistical categories among Major League pitchers with at least 350 innings pitched in that period, such as opponent batting average (27th,.228), strikeout percentage (20th, 27.1%), and strikeouts per nine innings (17th, 10.20).

In the last four seasons, opponents have batted.223 against Mahle’s four-seam fastball, according to Baseball Savant (Statcast). Among MLB pitchers who have thrown at least 2,500 four-seamers in that time, this is the 13th-lowest opponent batting average allowed.

Mahle played parts of two seasons with the Reds that were cut short by injuries before joining the Twins. He had a 2-3 overall record in 2022–2023 for Minnesota, with a 3.64 ERA, 40 strikeouts, and nine walks in nine starts.

Mahle spent his first ten years of his professional career with the Reds. In 114 MLB appearances (113 starts) during that time, he had a 31-38 record, a 4.35 ERA, and 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings.

Mahle had his best season to date in 2021, setting career highs in innings pitched, strikeouts (210), starts, wins, and quality starts (12). He was among the National League leaders in starts (tied for first), strikeouts per nine innings (7th, 10.50), strikeouts (9th), and wins (tied for 10th) with a record of 13-6 and a 3.75 ERA. That year, he struck out 10.5 times per nine innings, which is still the fifth-highest single-season total in Reds franchise history.

Playing for the Cincinnati Reds (2017–22) and Minnesota Twins (2022–23), Mahle has a seven-year MLB career record of 33–41, a 4.30 ERA, and 677 strikeouts (9.6 SO/9).

The Reds selected him in the seventh round of the 2013 MLB Draft, following his graduation from Westminster High School in California.