MLB Rumors: The Texas Rangers and Jordan Lyles are in agreement on a contract, according to multiple folks on Twitter, pending a physical. Reports say the deal is 2 years, $16 million. Lyles, a righthanded pitcher who turned 29 in October, split the 2019 season between the Pirates and the Brewers.
Lyles was ranked by Fangraphs as the #45 free agent of the offseason, with Kiley McDaniel projecting he would get $7 million per year over 2 years, so he was more or less on target here. Lyles has seemingly been around forever — he was a supplemental first round pick of the Houston Astros in 2008, the same year the Rangers drafted Justin Smoak, and spent his first three years in the majors with the Astros on their terrible, tanking teams in 2011-13, and pitching terribly for Houston.