Rangers land backstop Heim in veteran swap.
Texas also scored a catching prospect as part of the five-player trade.
Jonah Heim, who entered the weekend as the Athletics’ ninth-ranked prospect, headed to Texas, joining a catching stable that also includes Jose
Trevino, No. 78 overall prospect Sam Huff and No. 15 Rangers prospect David Garcia.
In all, Texas netted a designated hitter in Davis who hit .200 last year and is entering his ninth Major League season; Heim and right-hander Dane
Acker, Oakland’s fourth-round pick out of the University of Oklahoma in last summer’s draft. Oakland received Andrus and catcher Aramis Garcia.
The trade marks Heim’s third time being dealt. The Orioles selected Heim out of a New York high school in the fourth round of the 2013 Draft and
The 25-year-old made his Major League debut in August of the shortened 2020 season and spent all of September with the big league club, hitting .211 in 12 starts.
In 2019, Heim hit .310/.385/.477 with 35 walks to 45 strikeouts in 85 games between Double-A Midland and Triple-A Las Vegas.
That season was a step forward for the 6-foot-4, 220-pound backstop. During his first year with the A’s organization in 2018, Heim batted .258
with strikeouts in more than 18 percent of his at-bats over 118 games between Class A Advanced Stockton and Midland.
Heim lowered that mark to 15.6 percent the following summer.