{"id":426714,"date":"2026-01-21T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426714\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:54:09","slug":"junis-finalizes-4-million-deal-with-rangers-who-give-minor-deal-to-world-series-reliever-sborz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426714\/","title":{"rendered":"Junis finalizes $4 million deal with Rangers, who give minor deal to World Series reliever Sborz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Right-hander Jakob Junis finalized a $4 million, one-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/texas-rangers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers<\/a> on Tuesday that includes a mutual option for 2027, and Texas signed 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/josh-sborz-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Sborz<\/a> to a minor league contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Junis was 4-1 with with a 2.97 ERA in a career-high 57 appearances with Cleveland last season, when he allowed only five home runs over 66 2\/3 innings. He will make $2.75 million this year, and the 2027 option is at $5 million with a $1.25 million buyout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">In his nine-year big league career, the 33-year-old Junis is 46-46 with two saves and a 4.36 ERA with 768 strikeouts in 249 games, including 116 starts, with Kansas City (2017-21), San Francisco (2022-23), Milwaukee (2024), Cincinnati (2024), and Cleveland (2025). He is among four active pitchers with at least 100 starts and 100 relief appearances since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/dominic-hamel-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dom Hamel<\/a> designated for assignment to open a roster spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Sborz spent all of last season on the injured list after right shoulder surgery in November 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">He got the final seven outs in the Rangers&#8217; World Series-clinching victory at Arizona in Game 5 in 2023, then was limited to 16 1\/3 innings over 17 appearances in 2024, when the right-hander was on the injured list four times for right shoulder issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">He never pitched for the Rangers last year, making 12 appearances during a minor league rehab assignment, the last on Aug. 30. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Right-hander Jakob Junis finalized a $4 million, one-year contract with the Rangers on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-426714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}