ARLINGTON -- As part of a flurry of roster moves, the Rangers designated outfielder Willie Calhoun, who has been with Triple-A Round Rock, for assignment on Sunday. They also selected outfielder Steele Walker from Round Rock and optioned infielder Andy Ibáñez to Round Rock.

Texas now has seven days to either trade Calhoun or put him on outright waivers. He recently was on record as having requested a trade.

President of baseball operations Jon Daniels said Calhoun’s trade request had nothing to do with the front office’s decision to DFA him.

The move concludes a multiyear process between the Rangers and Calhoun, as he never quite reached the ceiling the club wanted or expected out of him. With a plethora of Minor League prospects waiting at Triple-A, the writing seemed to be on the wall.

“The biggest thing is the depth we have on the roster with left-handed-hitting corner bats,” Daniels said. “We felt Steele was doing well and wanted to give him an opportunity here against right-handed pitching. It's an area of depth for us, so that was probably the biggest piece of [the decision to DFA Calhoun].”

Calhoun said after getting optioned that he would go down to Round Rock with the intention of putting himself in a position to get traded. With the Express, Calhoun was slashing .221/.267/.397 with four home runs and 15 RBIs in 17 games.

Acquired from the Dodgers as part of the Yu Darvish trade in July 2017, Calhoun made his Major League debut later that summer and entered '18 as the Rangers’ No. 2 prospect, per MLB Pipeline.

Calhoun hit 21 homers in 83 games in 2019, but he hasn’t sustained that level of production in the big leagues, recording a .223/.288/.339 slash line with a 75 OPS+ in 404 at-bats since the start of '20. He’s also missed significant time during that span with multiple injuries.

Calhoun said in May, when he was first optioned to Triple-A, that he understands that it’s a performance-based industry, but he was still disappointed in his limited number of big league at-bats this season.

“We talked to Willie this morning,” Daniels said. “I’m fond of him as a person, and for the business part of it, you know, at some point the opportunities run out. I’m wishing the best for him. I'd be happy to put in a good word for him with other clubs. But just at this moment in time, the opportunity wasn't going to be here.”