Tyler Kinley:
Tyler Kinley is an arm I have come to like since the Rangers were reportedly interested in him at the deadline. He has a mix of 4 pitches including a slider, 4-seam fastball, curveball and changeup. I would also like to mention that in the TJstats.com pitching summaries he threw two splitters and one cutter. The splitter scored well on the summary with a 110 Stuff+. I’m really not sure if he actually has a splitter or if he’s trying to develop one.
In my opinion, his slider is his best pitch, and that is his primary pitch. Kinley has a 34.9% chase rate on his slider and he does a good job of staying in the zone with it. That’s why hitters tend to go after it. His slider doesn’t have much horizontal or vertical movement, and he gets about 2,500 RPM on it. Hitters also batted .194 against it and batted .297, so hitters aren’t picking it up as well. Kinley’s slider rotates on a similar axis to deGrom’s slider.
His second best pitch is his curveball. It scores at 106 Stuff+ and has a touch of 43.5. Kinley’s curveball doesn’t tend to find the zone often, but hitters chase it 37.9% of the time. Opponents struggled to get hits against Tyler Kinley’s curveball offering. They hit just .054 against it and also hit .054.
In 2025, Tyler Kinley posted a 3.96 ERA in 72.2 innings and also had an FIP of 3.69. While he has a problem with walks at times, I think the Rangers should definitely consider signing him. Even though they have said they want strike pitchers in the pen, Kinley would be a good arm to add to the Rangers bullpen and I think he could pitch well for them. I don’t think it will cost more than $5 million a year. His market value is 2.8 million per year according to Spotrac, so if they’re right that could certainly work for Chris Young and Co.
Taylor Rogers:
Taylor Rogers may not be the sexiest name around, but he has been closer to his career, having two seasons with 30+ saves. At this point, the Rangers would most likely have a bullpen by committee, and I think a lot of fans would love to have a guy in the ninth inning who can get it done. Rogers has done it in his career. I don’t think it will come for a high price either. Spotrac has a market value of 3.49 million. If the Rangers can get him in there, I think they should try to sign him.
Rogers doesn’t have a big arsenal, he only throws two pitches, a sweeper and a sinker. His sweeper isn’t very fast, averaging about 75 miles per hour, but the spin and break on it causes hitters to chase pitches out of the zone 33.3% of the time and whiff 33.6% of the time. Opponents posted a .168 batting average against Rogers’ sweeper in 2025. His sinker didn’t fare well last year, hitters posting a .326 batting average and a .537 slugging percentage against. Rogers stayed in the zone quite well with his sinker.
In his 10 years in the league, Rogers has a career ERA of 3.34 and his FIP is the same. I think he could be pretty good at Rangers, with the margin helping him. Maybe offer him 2.75 million with a $1 million signing bonus and maybe some incentives.
Danny Coulombe:
Danny Coulombe is an arm I’ve liked for a while, and liked that we acquired him at the deadline even though he was a rental. He wasn’t great when he came to the Rangers, but he’s definitely better than how he performed. Sometimes pitchers need time to adjust to a new catcher and coach, but Coulombe clearly has the stuff to be a good arm for the Rangers. It has a 4-pitch mix, but will also mix into a knuckle curve about 3% of the time. His pitch repertoire consists of a cutter, 4-seamer, sinker and a sweeper.
Coulombe’s cutter is his best pitch, scoring a 107 Stuff+. Hitters chase the pitch 47.2% of the time and whiff 35.8% of the time. Even though his cutter doesn’t have much of a break or doesn’t come in very quickly, he still produces very good results. In 2025, hitters batted .200 against it and batted .307. Since he developed the pitch with the Baltimore Orioles, it has been one of his best pitches.
The sinker is also a good throw for Coulombe since he started throwing it more with the Orioles. Even though batters hit it a little better last year, they still didn’t hit it as well. Hitters hit .308 against the pitch in 2025. In 2023 and 2024, hitters hit less than .150 against Danny Coulombe’s sinker. He didn’t get guys to strike out in 2025, but he did provide weak contact
His next two best offerings are the sweeper and knuckle curve. Both score a 103 Stuff+ and 107 Stuff+. Coulombe doesn’t throw his knuckle curve often, but when he does, he gets good results. He allows opponents to chase 43.8% of the time. His sweeper, on the other hand, is thrown 18% of the time and also causes hitters to chase at a high rate of 45.9% of the time. Opponents don’t get many hits against it either, hitting just .125 and hitting .250 against the sweeper.
Re-signing Danny Coulombe won’t be super expensive, and if the Rangers offer him a little less than his market value, which is around 4 million, add incentives, maybe a deal can be made and the Rangers get a solid left arm in the bullpen. Maybe offer him 2.75 million with a $1 million signing bonus, and 1.25 million if he makes it to 45 innings, so that’s 3.75 million guaranteed and could max out at 5 million.
Victor Vodnik (Trade):
Victor Vodnik also reportedly attracted interest from the Rangers at the trade deadline. He is under control until after the 2029 season, so if the Rangers were to trade for him, they would have him for four seasons. Vodnik mainly throws a fastball, change-up, slider and will occasionally throw in a cutter 5% of the time. All of his pitches rank well in TJstat’s season pitching summaries. Vodnik’s fastball rates a 103 Stuff+, and his change-up and slider rate a 107 Stuff+. The Rangers have said they want guys who throw strikes, but Vodnik has a problem with walks.
His best pitch is easily his changeup. Opponents in 2025 hit just .105 against them and hit .130. Vodnik also makes hitters whiff on the field 44.2% of the time. The changeup dives away from left-handed hitters and has a horizontal movement of approximately 14 inches toward a right-handed hitter. Vodnik tends to keep his changeup low in the zone and in the middle to outer half of the plate for a right-handed hitter.
Vodnik’s primary pitch is a hard fastball that opponents have had considerable success against. Hitters have a batting average of .283, but the pitch does score a 103 Stuff+, so it’s not a terrible pitch. He seems to leave the fastball around the middle of the zone and into the upper part of the zone. Perhaps if he could locate the fastball away from the center of the plate, there would be more success with it.
He has had considerable success with Vodnik’s other two pitches, a slider and a cutter. His bullet spin slider, which the Rangers seem to like, doesn’t have much horizontal movement. Opponents are hitting .250 against the field. Finally, Vodnik’s last throw in his arsenal, the cutter. The pitch scores a 110 Stuff+, which is the highest of his four pitches. He also makes opponents whiff 35.7 percent of the time, but he only throws it 5% of the time. Vodnik also excels at inducing ground balls, ranking in the 92nd percentile in ground ball %.
I’m not sure if Vodnik would be available because the Rockies have hired a new President of Baseball Operations and a new General Manager. We’ll have to see how Paul DePodesta proceeds.
Greg Weissert (Trade):
I have no idea if the Red Sox would trade Greg Weissert or what it would cost to get him, but I certainly wouldn’t mind adding him to the Rangers bullpen. It would also give them an arm in the bullpen with control. He is under contract through the 2030 season. Weissert has a 6-pitch mix that consists of a 4-seamer, sinker, slider, change-up, sweeper and a curveball.
His fastball was his best pitch in terms of run value at a positive 5. Weissert also held his opponents’ batting averages against the fastball to .190. He also makes hitters chase it 31% of the time. The pitch doesn’t have a great Stuff+ rating, only at 95, but the pitch still produces very good results and batters chase it. Weissert also gets 12.6 iVB on the field. His sinker also gives him good results. In 2025, Weissert’s sinker had a positive value of 3 runs, and hitters were hitting just .338. The opponent’s batting average is .269, but he doesn’t seem to be putting up much hard contact there. The sinker also has a horizontal break of 16.9 inches. Weissert tends to fill the zone with both offers and doesn’t get hit very hard.
Weissert’s changeup and slider rate just above 100 Stuff+, giving him decent results. The changeup is the better of the two, batters recorded a batting average of .190. Weissert makes hitters whiff 31.9% of the time and has a chase rate of 31.5. The field also has a horizontal break of 14.2 inches. On the slider, opponents hit .281 against and hit .469 against. Weissert’s slider normally lands down in the zone and lands in both quadrants of the plate, as well as in the middle of the plate. If he can tighten the command on it, he could achieve better results with the field.
Finally, his sweeper and curveball. The Sweeper actually has the best Stuff+ of all his pitches, at 113. However, when he lands it in the zone, it usually lands in the middle of the zone. This is probably why opponents had success with it: they hit .412 and hit .824 against the sweeper in 2025. If Weissert can get command of it, I think it could be a good pitch for him, as it hits almost 3000 RPMs. In contrast, his curveball had great results in 2025. Weissert only throws it 4% of the time, but hitters do chase and swing and miss often.
(All stats courtesy of BaseballSavant.com and TJStats.com)
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