Arlington, Texas – The Texas Rangers today announced the recipients of the club’s 2025 team awards as selected by the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. The winners will be presented with their awards during Texas Rangers Fan Fest presented by Comerica Bank on Saturday, January 24, 2026 at Globe Life Field.
Tickets to the 38th annual Texas Rangers Fan Fest, which will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., are now on sale at rangers.com/fanfest.
Player of the Year – Wyatt Langford: Langford, who turned 24 on November 15, becomes the first Ranger to claim the Player of the Year award in an age-23-or-younger season since Ivan Rodriguez did it in his 1995 age-23 campaign. The outfielder paced Texas batters with 22 home runs, 74 walks, and 22 stolen bases, while his 5.6 wins above replacement (Baseball-Reference) trailed only Corey Seager’s 6.1 mark for most on the club. Langford became the youngest player in Washington/Texas franchise history to notch a 20-homer, 20-stolen base campaign, besting the previous record set by Ian Kinsler, who turned the trick in his 2007 age-25 campaign. This marks the second consecutive season for Langford to claim a Rangers team award after he was tabbed as Texas’ 2024 Rookie of the Year.
Co-Pitcher of the Year – Jacob deGrom: The 37-year-old deGrom returned to form in 2025 following injury-shortened 2023 and 2024 campaigns, going 12-8 with a 2.97 ERA (57 ER/172.2 IP), 0.921 WHIP, .196 opponent batting average, and 185 strikeouts over 37 walks in 30 starts. He garnered A.L. Comeback Player of the Year honors in both the annual MLB Awards and the Players Choice Awards by the MLB Players Association. The right-hander’s 0.921 WHIP figure was the lowest by a qualified pitcher in franchise history, besting Nolan Ryan’s 1.006 WHIP in 1991, while also becoming just the 8th pitcher in franchise annals to make 30 starts and post an ERA under 3.00 in a season. deGrom was selected to the American League roster for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta via player voting as Texas’ lone representative, marking his 5th career selection and first with the Rangers.
Co-Pitcher of the Year – Nathan Eovaldi: After re-signing with the Rangers in December 2024, the 35-year-old Eovaldi went 11-3 with a career-best 1.73 ERA (25 ER/130.0 IP) across 22 starts in 2025. Texas won 15 of his 22 outings, including each of Eovaldi's last 9 starts in which the right-hander went 7-0 with a 1.56 ERA. Eovaldi's .786 win percentage ranked 2nd in club history to only Steve Comer's .800 (8-2) mark in 1981 (min. 10 decisions), while his ERA paced the Majors (min. 100.0 IP) and was the lowest by a Texas hurler since Jim Kern (1.57) in 1979. Among MLB pitchers with 130.0-or-more innings in 2025, Eovaldi ranked 1st in ERA, WHIP (0.85), and opponent OBP (.239), 2nd in opponent OPS (.546) and strikeout-per-walk ratio (6.14), and 5th in FIP (2.71).
Rookie of the Year – Jack Leiter: The 25-year-old Leiter finished 7th in A.L. Rookie of the Year voting in 2025, going 10-10 with a 3.86 ERA (65 ER/151.2 IP) in 29 starts. His 10 victories were tied with Baltimore's Tomoyuki Sugano for the most by an A.L. rookie pitcher, and he also ranked highly among A.L. newcomers (min. 100.0 IP) in opponent slugging percentage (2nd, .361), strikeouts (2nd, 148), innings pitched (3rd), and baserunners-per-9.0 innings (3rd, 11.81). Leiter's 29 starts and 148 strikeouts were the most by a Rangers rookie pitcher since Yu Darvish (29 GS, 221 SO) in 2012, and he led Texas qualifiers with a 3.34 ERA from June 29 through the end of the season.
Jim Sundberg Community Achievement Award – Corey Seager: Seager, 31, batted .271/.373/.487/.860 (103-380) with 21 home runs, 19 doubles, and 50 RBI over 102 games in 2025, his fourth season with Texas. After devastating floods severely impacted the Central Texas region last summer, Corey and his wife, Mady, made a significant financial donation to support relief and recovery efforts throughout the area. Since 2024, the Seagers have hosted an annual “Uncorked for a Cause” charity wine event that has raised more than $130,000 in total, directly supporting the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation. Corey has also hosted several hitting clinics for athletes from the Texas Rangers Youth Academy throughout his Texas tenure, working closely with members of the Rangers’ coaching staff to provide participants with personalized instruction to enhance their batting skills.
The Harold McKinney Good Guy Award – Jake Burger: In his fifth Major League season and first with the Rangers, Burger hit .236 (84-356) with 16 home runs, 15 doubles, and 53 RBI over 103 games. The 29-year-old infielder ranked 4th on the club in homers and 5th in RBI while tallying a team-high 91 games/86 starts at first base. Burger's two games with two home runs (May 21 at NYY, Sept. 10 vs. MIL) matched Corey Seager for the most multi-homer efforts by a Ranger in 2025.
Richard Durrett Hardest Working Ranger – Jacob Latz: The 29-year-old southpaw set new career highs in innings (85.2), starts (8), and strikeouts (76) in his fourth Major League campaign, going 2-0 with one save and a 2.84 ERA (27 ER/85.2 IP) in 33 games/8 starts in a dual role. Latz was the only MLB pitcher last season to post a sub-3.00 ERA and record at least one save over at least 30 games with 8-or-more starts, becoming the fifth pitcher in franchise history to accomplish the feat. He permitted just 7 home runs in 85.2 innings pitched for a 0.74 home runs per 9.0 mark, which ranked 11th among A.L. pitchers with at least 80.0 IP.
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