The Texas Rangers will have LHP Andrew Heaney and RHP Jose Leclerc back on the roster for the 2024 season.
The team said this week that Heaney exercised a player contract option for the 2024 season and that the team exercised a club option on Leclerc.
Both players are now under contract with the team for the 2024 campaign.
Here's more from the Rangers on the players' 2023 stats.
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Heaney went 10-6 with a 4.15 ERA (68 ER/147.1 IP) over 34 games/28 starts in his first season with Texas in 2023, posting a career-high in wins (10) with his 2nd-most innings (147.1), starts (28) and strikeouts (151). He was also 1-0 with a 4.09 ERA (5 ER/11.0 IP) over 5 games/3 starts for the Rangers in the club's 2023 World Series championship run in the postseason. His lone career playoff win came in World Series Game 4 at Arizona (5.0 IP, 1 R-ER), a victory which gave Texas a 3-games-to-1 lead in the Fall Classic.
Leclerc was 0-2 with 4 saves and a 2.68 ERA (17 ER/57.0 IP) over 57 relief outings for Texas in the 2023 regular season. He went 1-1 with 4 saves and a 3.29 ERA (5 ER/13.2 IP) over 13 relief appearances for the Rangers in the 2023 playoffs, as his 13 outings in the club's World Series title run, tying the 3rd-highest total of games ever in a single postseason.
