Is Alejandro Osuna quietly solving the Rangers' biggest offseason question?

Alejandro Osuna didn't have a fantastic 2025 season, but it might have been good enough to convince the Texas Rangers he's their starting right fielder in 2026.

Osuna was called up in the middle of the summer and played sparingly. He posted just a .211/.314/.272/.586 slashline with just 2 homeruns. However, the young outfielder played better as the season went on. Once one of the top prospects in the system, he might have earned a chance to replace Adolis Garcia, who seems all but gone this winter.

Why Alejandro Osuna could be the Texas Rangers’ next starting right fielder

In September, things click for the Texas Rangers prospect. Osuna slashed .300/.364/.383/.747, which included his second Major League home run on Friday against the Cleveland Guardians.

Osuna's manager certainly thinks the rookie made some serious strides towards the end of his first Major League season.

"He just keeps getting better," Bruce Bochy said after Friday's win. "He is throwing out quality at-bats."

Osuna, who turns 24 in two weeks, was called up a little earlier than he should have been. But he had impressed the Rangers - and anybody who watched the club - in spring training, gotten out to a hot start at Double-A Frisco, and earned a promotion to Triple-A just a week before his eventual call-up.

Not surprisingly, he struggled. However, the outfielder thinks he also learned from those struggles. He was sent down and called up two other times before his September surge.

"I learned to control my emotions more," Osuna said. "When they sent me down, at Triple-A, I wasn’t trying to do too much. I was in Triple-A, I was playing easy. I was taking good at-bats, swinging at good pitches, everything. It helped me to realize that."

Now, with big questions as to whether Adolis Garcia will be retained, the Texas Rangers may look to Alejandro Osuna to be a cheap replacement so they can spend money elsewhere, on a pitching staff that will lose a lot to free agency.