2021 Year in Review: Andy Ibanez

With the 2021 season having come to a close, we are looking back at the year that was for members of the Texas Rangers.

Today we are looking at infielder Andy Ibanez.

This coming season is Andy Ibanez’s eighth year with the Rangers’ organization.

Weird, isn’t it?

Ibanez was signed by the Rangers on July 7, 2015. That was before the Cole Hamels trade. Less than a year after Ron Washington resigned. When Yu Darvish was recovering from Tommy John surgery and the Rangers were bobbling around .500, before their unlikely surge to win the division that year, then follow it up with the best record in the A.L. in 2016.

Ibanez was signed as a 22 year old out of Cuba, older than most international free…