SURPRISE, Ariz. — You don’t get many, if any, shots at a do-over in professional baseball. There aren’t a whole lot of second chances for a first start....
that had hampered him since his first spring training with the Rangers and limited him largely to a designated hitter role before his season ended after just 54 games. His rehab lasted seven-and-a-half months. He spent the first eight weeks in an arm brace, and by November, had rehabbed his shoulder and began “semi long toss.”
“I was traded 24 hours after the lockout ended,” Garver said. “Going into a foreign clubhouse, meeting new guys, pretty much knowing I was [hurt], but not knowing the extent of my injury. I knew something was up with my elbow, but I didn’t know if it was ‘just getting into shape’. He hit just .207 in an interrupted debut season with the Rangers, posted an OPS of .702 and slugged just .404. Outside of his 2020 season — in which he played just 23 games due to injury and the COVID-19-shortened schedule — those were career lows across the board since he became Minnesota’s starting catcher in 2018. It was a sharp drop-off from his .256/.358/.
His peripheral numbers might’ve been a giveaway. In Garver’s best seasons as a Twin — in 2021 and 2019 — he had barrel percentages of 17.4 and 15.5, respectively, and hard hit percentages of 53.6 and 50. His first season in Texas came with a barrel percentage of 8.8 and a hard hit percentage of 38.7, the latter of which marked a career low.
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