According to Gerry Fraley, the Texas Rangers could lose Austin-Bibens Dirkx after he rejected an outright minor-league assignment. Bibens-Dirkx has decided to take minor league free agency over heading to Triple-A Round Rock.
General manager Jon Daniels is open to bringing Bibens-Dirkx back in 2018, but it needs to be for the right price. If the Rangers would’ve kept ABD on the 40-man roster, Texas would’ve had to pay him an annual rate of $340,000 for his time in the minors.
The 2017 season was ABD’s first season in the MLB and it went fairly well.