{"id":445921,"date":"2026-01-29T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445921\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:13:08","slug":"austin-gomber-signs-minor-league-contract-with-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445921\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Gomber signs minor league contract with Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; Veteran left-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34897\/austin-gomber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Gomber<\/a> has signed a minor league contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> that includes an invitation to major league spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers announced Gomber&#8217;s deal on Thursday while also extending spring training invites to nine players from within the organization, including their top prospect, 19-year-old infielder Sebastian Walcott.<\/p>\n<p>Gomber missed the first 2 1\/2 months last season after left shoulder soreness in spring training, then went 0-7 with a 7.49 ERA in 12 starts for Colorado after his return in mid-June until being released in late August. The 32-year-old lefty is 35-47 with a 5.08 ERA in 168 career games (124 starts) over seven major league seasons, two with St. Louis and the last five with the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado acquired Gomber in the six-player trade before the start of spring training in 2021 that sent third baseman Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals. Gomber was a fourth-round draft pick by St. Louis out of Florida Atlantic in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Walcott will be in his second consecutive big league spring training as a non-roster invitee. He hit .255 with 13 home runs, 59 RBI, 70 walks and 32 stolen bases in 124 games for Double-A Frisco last season.<\/p>\n<p>The first workout for Rangers pitchers and catchers is Feb. 10 in Surprise, Arizona. The first full-squad workout in Feb. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; Veteran left-hander Austin Gomber has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-445921","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\/445921","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=445921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}