Energy Transfer will keep its logo on the sleeve of every Texas Rangers jersey for at least the rest of the decade. The Dallas-based company and the ballclub announced an extension of their jersey patch partnership in September 2025, and it isn’t just a marketing renewal. Two new community initiatives, stretching well beyond the ballpark, came with it. For Kelcy Warren, the company’s Executive Chairman, the renewed deal marks the latest chapter in a partnership that started small in 2018 and has since grown into one of the more visible sponsorships in Major League Baseball.
A Partnership That Keeps Adding Layers
Energy Transfer first partnered with the Rangers in May 2018, committing $1 million to the Texas Rangers MLB Youth Academy at the Mercy Street Sports Complex in West Dallas. That relationship expanded into ballpark signage and radio sponsorships over the following years, then into the jersey patch itself in March 2024, when Energy Transfer became the first company in franchise history to appear on a Rangers uniform. Today, 26 of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams carry a jersey patch sponsor, and Energy Transfer’s mark has appeared on every Rangers jersey, in-ballpark sale and national broadcast since the patch debuted.
The September 2025 extension keeps that visibility in place while adding two new commitments the companies plan to roll out starting in 2027. The first is a field-and-park refurbishment initiative: the Rangers and Energy Transfer, working with the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation, will select one Dallas baseball field or public park each year for renovation. The second ties the partnership to a different kind of Dallas milestone. Beginning in 2027, the Rangers and Energy Transfer, in partnership with Medical City Healthcare, will donate co-branded baby jerseys to newborns at hospitals across Dallas County, with employees from both organizations invited to help deliver them in person.
Executives Frame the Deal as Bigger Than the Ballpark
“Energy Transfer is pleased to continue as the official jersey patch partner of the Texas Rangers,” said Vicki Granado, Energy Transfer’s Vice President of Corporate Communications, in the companies’ announcement. “We are also proud to extend our relationship beyond the ballpark as we look forward to playing a role in helping create unforgettable memories in our Dallas community.”
Rangers Chief Business Officer Jim Cochrane described the extension in similar terms. “The Texas Rangers are proud to extend our partnership with Energy Transfer that pairs visibility with deep community impact,” Cochrane said in the same release. “Our shared vision for serving the community in our own backyard and inspiring future generations will help make a lasting impact beyond the field.”
Kelcy Warren rarely appears by name in Energy Transfer’s sponsorship announcements, and this one’s no exception. But the pattern behind it traces back to decisions Warren has made throughout his career at the company: a modest, targeted gift in 2018 to a youth academy in West Dallas has grown, seven years later, into a decade-long marketing and philanthropic commitment that now touches Dallas families who’ve never set foot in a ballpark. The new park refurbishment program will be administered jointly by Energy Transfer and the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation, which has invested more than $80 million in North Texas communities since 1991, once the initiative begins in 2027.
For a company whose core business involves moving natural gas and crude oil across a 140,000-mile pipeline network, the Rangers partnership remains an unusual, highly visible outlier. It’s also, by design, built to last well past the current jersey patch cycle.
