I Can’t Stay With The Texas Rangers For Two Reasons: The Rangers’ most seasoned player explains why he is unable to stay with the team.
A former outfield prospect for the San Francisco Giants signs a huge three-year contract with the NPB
After making his Texas Rangers debut in 2024, former SF Giants outfield prospect Sandro Fabian is currently on the move. According to Francys Romero and Mike Rodriguez, he will sign a three-year, $5.8 million contract with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball league (NPB).
A former outfield prospect for the San Francisco Giants signs a huge three-year contract with the NPB
Rodriguez adds that $600,000 in incentives are part of Fabian’s agreement. The Rangers have already freed the outfielder to seek the chance abroad, but it is a formality.
Fabian was originally signed by the Giants in 2014 as a Dominican Republic international free agent. With a $500,000 signing bonus, he topped the Giants’ contingent during that cycle.
Curiously, the Giants signed Cuban outfielder Daniel Carbonell to a four-year, $3.5 million contract at around the same time. His signing was exempt from the team’s bonus pool as MLB labeled him a free agent. Carbonell only had a fleeting stint above Double-A before being cut by the Giants organization in 2018.
However, in the late 2010s, Fabian emerged as one of the organization’s best prospects, and in 2017, Baseball America ranked him as the eighth best prospect. He treaded water against more experienced opponents and was typically promoted rapidly up the minor league ladder.
This includes a strong 2019 season with the San Jose Giants, when he recorded a.766 OPS with five home runs and 33 RBI in 187 plate appearances. For a player in his age-21 season, this was seen as good productivity because San Jose was in High-A at the time.
Like many athletes, Fabian missed a year of growth when the 2020 minor league season was canceled. In 2021, he came back to Double-A and recorded 313 plate appearances with 15 home runs and a.763 OPS. As Fabian grew older, his power started to develop, which was surprising for an outfield prospect whose profile leaned more on hit than power.
After that season, though, the right-handed hitter became a free agent, and he has been in the Rangers organization for the past three years. In 2023, while playing for Texas’ Triple-A club, he had his finest minor league season, hitting.288/.331/.523 with 23 home runs and 78 RBI in 480 plate appearances.
After he finished the 2024 season on the 40-man roster and recorded five hitless at-bats, the Rangers gave him a temporary promotion as a reward. The young outfielder will now travel abroad after being released, where he will earn a substantial salary over the course of the following three seasons.
