Texas Rangers select the contract of former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher

Edwards' 2025 season has consisted of two big league games with the Angels, a brief stint in the Mexican League, and 15 games (and 50 2/3 total innings) at the Triple-A level with the Angels' and Rangers' top affiliates.

His time in Mexico ended when the Rangers inked Edwards to a minor league contract in July, and today's selection is something of a full circle moment in the veteran's career.

Texas drafted Edwards in the 48th round of the 2011 draft, but he has never appeared in a big league game in a Rangers uniform, as the team dealt him to the Cubs in advance of the 2013 trade deadline.

After making his MLB debut with Chicago in 2015, Edwards became a staple of the Cubs' bullpen during the 2016-18 seasons, but success has been much more sporadic for Edwards in the intervening years.

Since Opening Day 2019, Edwards has pitched for seven different teams at the Major League level, with a 4.28 ERA over 124 innings in that nomadic stretch.

The righty's contributions to the last two seasons consisted of just a single game with the Padres in 2024, and then his two games with the Angels earlier this year.

Edwards' 5.31 ERA over 39 innings at Round Rock doesn't jump off the page, but his 26% strikeout rate, 7.7% walk rate, and 53.6% grounder rate are more palatable.

The grounder-heavy arsenal has contributed to that inflated ERA, as Edwards has an unlucky .362 BABIP with the Rangers' Triple-A club.

Though Edwards is best known as a reliever, he has been trying to reinvent himself as a starter during his time in the Mexican League and in the minors, and he has started seven of his eight games in Round Rock.