The Rangers do not have a big budget to spend on the bullpen for 2026. Last winter, in 2024, the Rangers didn’t spend much at all on the bullpen. In fact, they spent around 10 million on it, and the bullpen was good except for one weakness, the closer. The Rangers had a closer by committee last year and it was a little rough to watch at times. With that being said, there are still some solid arms out there to round out the 2026 Rangers bullpen. Here are some arms I would like the Rangers to consider adding to their bullpen.
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 4 pitch mix that includes a slider, 4-seam fastball, curveball, and changeup. I would also like to include that on TJstats.com season pitching summaries he threw two splitters and 1 cutter. The splitter graded out well on the summary at a 110 Stuff+. I’m really not sure if he actually has a splitter or if he is trying to develop one.
In my opinion his slider is his best pitch, which is his primary pitch. Kinley gets 34.9% chase rate on his slider and he does a good job staying around the zone with it. Hence why hitters tend to chase it. His slider doesn’t have a lot of horizontal or vertical movement, and he gets about 2,500 RPMs on it. Hitters also hit .194 against it and slugged .297, so hitters don’t pick it up very well. Kinley’s slider spins on a similar axis as deGrom’s slider.
His second best pitch is his curveball. It grades out at 106 Stuff+, and has a whiff% of 43.5. Kinley’s curveball doesn’t tend to find the zone a lot, but hitters chase 37.9% of the time. Opponents struggled to get hits against the curveball offering from Tyler Kinley. They only hit .054 against it and slugged .054 as well.
In 2025 Tyler Kinley posted a 3.96 ERA in 72.2 innings and also had a 3.69 FIP. While he does have an issue with walks sometimes, I think the Rangers should definitely consider signing him. Even though they have said they want strike throwers 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 he’ll cost more than 5 million dollars per year. His market value according to Spotrac is at 2.8 million a year, so if they are correct that could definitely work for Chris Young and Co.
Taylor Rogers:
Taylor Rogers may not be the sexiest name out there, but he has been a closer in his career and has two seasons with 30+ saves. Right now as the bullpen stands the Rangers would have a bullpen by committee most likely, and I think lots of fans would like a guy in the ninth inning that can get it done. Rogers has been able to get it done in his career. I don’t think he will come at a high price either. Spotrac has a market value of 3.49 million. If the Rangers could get him around that 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, it averages about 78 MPH, but the spin and break on it gets hitters to chase pitches out of the zone 33.3% of the time and whiffed 33.6% of the time. Opponents posted a .168 batting average against Rogers’ sweeper in 2025. His sinker didn’t get good results last year, hitters posted a .326 batting average and a .537 slugging percentage against. Rogers did stay in the zone with his sinker pretty well.
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 decently good with the Rangers with the ballpark helping him out. Maybe offer him 2.75 million with a 1 million dollar signing bonus and maybe some incentives.
Danny Coulombe:
Danny Coulombe is an arm I have 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 over to the Rangers but he is definitely better than how he performed. Sometimes pitchers take time to adjust to a new catcher and coach, but Coulombe clearly has the stuff to be a good arm for the Rangers. He has a 4 pitch mix but will also mix in 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, it grades at a 107 Stuff+. Hitters chase the pitch 47.2% of the time, and whiff 35.8% of the time. Although his cutter doesn’t have a lot of break or doesn’t come in very fast, it still gets him very good results. In 2025 hitters hit .200 against it and slugged .307. Ever since he developed the pitch with the Baltimore Orioles it has been one of his best pitches.
The sinker is also a good pitch for Coulombe since he started throwing it more with the Orioles. While hitters did hit a little better against it last year, they still didn’t hit it very well. Hitters slugged .308 against the pitch in 2025. In 2023 and 2024 hitters hit under .150 against Danny Coulombe’s sinker. He didn’t get guys to strikeout against it in 2025, but he induced weak contact
His next two best offerings are the sweeper and knuckle curve. Both grade out at a 103 Stuff+ and 107 Stuff+. Coulombe doesn’t often throw his knuckle curve but when he does he gets good results. He gets opponents to chase 43.8% of the time. In contrast, his sweeper is thrown 18% of the time and also gets hitters to chase at a high rate of 45.9% of the time. Opponents also don’t get many hits against it, they are only hitting .125 and are slugging .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, then include incentives maybe a deal can be made and the Rangers get a solid lefty arm in the bullpen. Maybe offer him 2.75 million with a 1 million dollar signing bonus, and 1.25 million if he reaches 45 innings, so that’s 3.75 million guaranteed and can max out at 5 million.
Victor Vodnik (Trade):
Victor Vodnik reportedly garnered interest from the Rangers at the trade deadline as well. He is under control until after the 2029 season, so if the Rangers traded for him they would have him for 4 seasons. Vodnik mainly throws a fastball, change-up, slider, and will occasionally sprinkle in a cutter 5% of the time. All of his pitches grade out well on TJstats season pitching summaries. Vodnik’s fastball grades out at a 103 Stuff+, and his change-up and slider grade out at a 107 Stuff+. The Rangers have said they want guys who throw strikes, but Vodnik has an issue with walks.
His best pitch is easily his change-up. Opponents in 2025 only hit .105 against it and slugged .130. Vodnik also gets hitters to whiff 44.2% of the time on the pitch. The change-up dives away from left-handed hitters and has about 14 inches of horizontal movement towards a right-handed hitter. Vodnik tends to keep his change up low in the zone and in the middle to outer half of the plate to a right-handed hitter.
Vodnik’s primary pitch is a hard fastball that opponents have decent success against. Hitters have a .283 batting average, but the pitch does grade at a 103 Stuff+ so it’s not a terrible pitch. He seems to leave the fastball around the middle of the zone and in the upper part of the zone. Maybe if he can locate the fastball away from the middle of the plate there would be more success with it.
Vodnik’s other two pitches, which are a slider and a cutter, he has had decent success with. His bullet spin slider, which the Rangers seem to like, doesn’t have a lot of horizontal movement. Opponents are hitting .250 against the pitch. Lastly, Vodnik’s final pitch in his arsenal, the cutter. The pitch grades out a 110 Stuff+ which is the highest of his 4 pitches. He also gets opponents to whiff 35.7 percent of the time, but he only throws it 5% of the time. Vodnik also excels at inducing ground balls, he is in 92nd percentile in ground ball%.
I’m not sure if Vodnik would be available because the Rockies hired a new President of Baseball Operations and a new GM. We will have to see how Paul DePodesta operates.
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 definitely 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 until 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 by run value at positive 5. Weissert also kept opponents batting averages against the fastball at .190. He also gets hitters to chase it 31% of the time. The pitch doesn’t have a great Stuff+ grade, only at 95, but the pitch still gives him very good results and hitters chase it. Weissert also gets 12.6 iVB on the pitch. His sinker nets him good results too. In 2025 Weissert’s sinker had a positive 3 run value, and hitters only slugged .338. The opponents batting average is .269, but he doesn’t seem to give a lot of hard contact on it. The sinker has 16.9 inches of horizontal break as well. Weissert tends to fill up the zone with both offerings and doesn’t get hit very hard.
Weissert’s change-up and slider grade just above 100 Stuff+, and give him decent results. The change-up is the better of the two, hitters posted a .190 batting average against it. Weissert gets hitters to whiff 31.9% of the time and a chase percentage of 31.5. The pitch also has 14.2 inches of horizontal break. On the slider, opponents hit .281 against it and slug .469 against it. Weissert’s slider normally ends up down in the zone and ends up in both quadrants of the plate, also ending up in the middle of the plate. If he can tighten up the command on it he could get better results with the pitch.
Lastly, his sweeper and curveball. The sweeper actually has the best Stuff+ of all of his pitches at 113. However, when he does land it in the zone it mostly ends up in the middle of the zone. This is likely what caused opponents to have success against it, they hit .412 and slugged .824 vs. the sweeper in 2025. If Weissert can get the command on it I think it can be a good pitch for him because it almost gets 3000 RPMs. In contrast, his curveball got great results in 2025. Weissert does only throw it 4% of the time, but hitters do chase and they do swing and miss often.
(All stats are from BaseballSavant.com and TJStats.com)