The Rangers announced Friday afternoon that four players — reliever Matt Bush, first basemen Ronald Guzmán and Curtis Terry and infielder Anderson Tejeda and reliever — have cleared outright waivers. All four will be eligible for minor-league free agency.
Guzmán came up as a well-regarded prospect and served as Texas’ regular first baseman for a good chunk of his first two MLB seasons. He didn’t hit for enough power to offset high strikeout rates, however, posting just a .229/.307/.415 line that checked in 16 percentage points below the league average by measure of wRC+ from 2018-19. Guzmán hasn’t played much over the past couple seasons, missing almost all of the 2021 campaign after tearing the meniscus in his right knee in April.
Like Guzmán, Bush also barely pitched this past season because of injury. The 35-year-old suffered a flexor strain in April and missed almost the entire year, although he did return after a long rehab to pitch on the season’s final day. It has now been three years since Bush’s last extended action, as he also missed all of the 2019 and 2020 campaigns because of an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery.
Tejeda and Terry are career-long members of the organization with scant big-league experience. The former has tallied 94 MLB plate appearances over the past two years, spending most of this past season at Double-A and Triple-A. The latter earned a 13-game major-league cameo at the end of 2021 after hitting .275/.349/.533 with the Rangers’ top affiliate in Round Rock.
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