Texas Rangers To Let Colby Lewis Test Free Agency
By Ed Carroll
The Texas Rangers were hoping to extend starting pitcher Colby Lewis, but the two sides were unable to agree upon a deal, and Lewis is prepared to test MLB free agency.
The Texas Rangers had made retaining starting pitcher Colby Lewis a priority, but it doesn’t look like the veteran will return to the club for the 2015 season:
Rangers GM Jon Daniels said Colby Lewis will test free-agent market.
— Anthony Andro (@aandro) October 31, 2014
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The Rangers had made Lewis their
since settling on Jeff Banister as the team’s new manager. He missed all of the 2013 season, but Lewis returned in 2014 and was surprisingly solid other than an ugly 5.18 ERA. But Lewis gave the Rangers 29 healthy starts, which isn’t something many other Rangers pitchers could have claimed to do last season, when Texas was decimated by injuries.
Lewis will be 35 during the 2015 season, but he still has value as a back-of-the-rotation innings eater, assuming his health continues. He signed a one-year, $2-million-dollar deal with the Rangers prior to last season, and will likely get a slight pay raise for the next season, although it’s unclear if any MLB club would be willing to give him a multi-year deal at this point in his career.
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