Former Texas Rangers in the 2025 MLB Postseason
As the 2025 MLB postseason begins, the Rangers are not a part of the festivities for the second straight year. Their last postseason game was Game 5 of the World Series when Texas clinched its first World Series.
But some former Rangers, including some from the 2023 World Series team, are suiting up for other clubs this October. If you want to pull for any of them this postseason, you’ve got many options.
Here is every former Texas player in the postseason.
Teams with Former Rangers
Several teams in the 2025 MLB postseason have former Rangers on their rosters. These players have made significant contributions to their current teams and will be looking to make an impact in the postseason.
Toronto Blue Jays
Rangers
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31) throws during the Game 3 of the World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, in Phoenix. Scherzer would leave the game with tightness in his back in the fourth inning.
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Max Scherzer, Dillon Tate, Isiah Kiner-Falefa
A couple of guys who were involved in notable Rangers trade deadline deals are on the Blue Jays this year.
Tate was the fourth overall pick for the Rangers in the 2015 MLB draft, but he never suited up for Texas. He was dealt to the Yankees for Carlos Beltran in 2016 as the Rangers pushed for the playoffs that year.
Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young winner, was acquired from the Mets as a key piece to the Rangers’ World Series run at the 2023 trade deadline.
Kiner-Falefa was drafted by the Rangers in 2013 and spent the first four years of his big-league career in Texas from 2018-21, winning the AL Gold Glove at third base in 2020. He was dealt to the Twins in a deal for Mitch Garver (more on him in a minute) in 2022.
Seattle Mariners
Luke Jackson, Mitch Garver
Jackson has had two stints with the Rangers, spending the 2015-16 seasons in Texas to start his career and spent part of the 2025 season with the Rangers before Texas designated him for assignment.
Rangers fans have much rosier memories of Garver, who spent 2022-23 in Texas was a key piece in the lineup during the 2023 World Series run. During the Rangers’ playoff run, he hit three home runs and notched 14 RBIs, including the go-ahead RBI single in the World Series-clinching game against Arizona.
Cleveland Guardians
Texas Rangers catcher Austin Hedges celebrates with friends during the World Series Victory Parade outside Globe Life Field in Arlington, Nov. 3, 2023. The Rangers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks, 4-1.
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Matt Festa, Austin Hedges
Festa’s career with the Rangers was brief, appearing in 18 games out of the bullpen for Texas in 2024, Hedges lives on in Rangers lore for Texas fans.
Hedges appeared in just 16 games for the Rangers in the 2023 World Series run, but was an all-time vibes guy in the clubhouse after he was acquired from the Pirates at the trade deadline.
“Every locker room needs an Austin Hedges,” then-Rangers outfielder Travis Jankowski said that October.
New York Yankees
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Boston Red Sox
