After the Texas Rangers acquired Max Scherzer at the 2023 deadline, a number of their players were unsure of how to act, and almost distanced themselves out of respect for the future Hall of Famer.
Catcher Austin Hedges, who joined the Rangers two days later in a separate trade, took the opposite approach.
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“He was like, I’m just going straight at this guy’s chin,” former Rangers first baseman Nathaniel Lowe recalled.
Hedges, 32, could not be further from Scherzer in career accomplishments. His .186 lifetime batting average is the second lowest in AL-NL history among players with 2,000 at-bats, according to STATS Perform, ahead of only Bill Bergen, who batted .170 from
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