MLB: Will they get him off the boat? Giants, Rangers show interest in Mariners All-Star outfielder

The gardener Mitch Haniger is drawing attention from the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers on the free agent market. Rangers outfielders hit a combined .226/.287/.353 average in 2022 while ranking last in the majors with an 83 wRC+.

The Giants outfielders fared better than the Rangers last season, but the lefties Mike Yastrzemski and LaMonte Wade Jr. They come from bad years. Haniger hit .246/.308/.429 with 11 home runs and 34 RBIs in 57 games for the Seattle Mariners last seasonmissing much of the season with an ankle injury:

The only All-Star and first-time free agent, he is an effective player when healthy, slashing .261/.335/.476 with 112 home runs, 109 doubles and 323 RBIs in 564 career games.

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Haniger’s best season came in 2018 when he posted an .859 OPS (139 OPS+), finishing 11th in AL MVP voting. He isn’t tied to draft pick compensation because the Mariners didn’t make him a qualifying offer.


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I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover big events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), important players’ signatures. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as an amateur. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but baseball is in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it took almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to radio, providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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MLB: Will they get him off the boat? Giants, Rangers show interest in Mariners All-Star outfielder