Ex-Angels star Mark Teixeira announces

Slide over, Steve Garvey. It seems another former Major League Baseball slugger with Southland ties will run for political workplace.

Mark Teixeira, who batted a strong .358 in a two-month stint with the Angels in 2008 before signing a longterm profitable contract with the New York Yankees, announced his marketing campaign for Texas’ twenty first Congressional District in the U.S. House on Wednesday.

Teixeira, an avowed conservative who has lived in or close to Dallas a lot of his grownup life, said he’s “ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty.”

Garvey is also a Republican, and he misplaced in a landslide to Democrat Adam Schiff for California’s open seat in the U.S. Senate last November. Despite being a beloved former Dodgers great, Garvey, 75, held few public occasions and struggled to gain traction with voters in a state that has not elected a Republican to statewide workplace in practically 20 years.

Unlike Garvey, Teixeira, 45, is operating in a closely Republican district that Chip Roy received by 26% of the vote in November. Teixeira’s announcement follows Roy’s choice not to search re-election because he’s operating for the workplace of the Texas Attorney General.

Teixeira, a former first baseman, performed 14 seasons for 4 MLB groups — the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Angels and Yankees. He retired after the 2016 season with 409 profession home runs.

The Angels acquired him from the Braves in a commerce late in the 2008 season, and he helped them to the only 100-win season in franchise historical past by hitting 13 home runs and driving in 43 runs while batting .358 in 54 video games.

Teixeira also carried out properly in the American League Division Series, batting .467 with a .550 on-base share, although the Angels fell in 4 video games to the Boston Red Sox. He was a free agent after the season and Angels proprietor Arte Moreno supplied him $160 million over eight years before retracting the offer two weeks later.

Several other groups made comparable if not more profitable provides, and Teixeira signed with the Yankees for $180 million over eight years. The slugging switch-hitter helped New York to the 2009 World Series championship, main the AL with 39 homers and 122 runs batted in.

The Yankees defeated the Angels in the AL Championship Series before beating the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. The following season, Teixeira spoke extremely of the Angels despite leaving Anaheim for the greener pastures of New York.

“I hope there are no hard feelings between Arte and myself,” Teixeira told The Times’ Mike DiGiovanna. “I loved that organization. Arte, [Manager Mike] Scioscia, it’s first class, top to bottom. But your wife and kids being happy is more important than your personal desires.”