{"id":307115,"date":"2025-11-26T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307115\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:41:08","slug":"rangers-jonah-bride-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307115\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers, Jonah Bride Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers are in agreement with infielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bridejo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonah Bride<\/a> on a minor league contract, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1993475869156032919\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>. The Paragon Sports International client will be in MLB Spring Training as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n<p>Bride reunites with Texas manager Skip Schumaker. Bride had his best season with Schumaker\u2019s Marlins in 2024, when he connected on 11 homers with a .276\/.357\/.461 batting line. That earned him the Opening Day designated hitter job going into this year. Bride didn\u2019t stick on the roster for long, as he batted .100 without an extra-base hit over his first 12 games and was designated for assignment. Miami flipped him to the Twins for cash a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old didn\u2019t find any more success in Minnesota. Bride hit .208\/.275\/.236 in 80 trips to the plate, leading to a second DFA on the year. He went unclaimed on waivers that time around and spent the rest of the season with Triple-A St. Paul. Bride hit well against minor league pitching, batting .281\/.423\/.453 with an equal number of walks and strikeouts in 43 games. A retooling Minnesota team never had much reason to give him another look, though, and he played out the season in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>Bride is a righty bat who plays mostly on the corner infield. The majority of his experience has come at third base, though he has a decent amount of reps at both positions on the right side. He doesn\u2019t have plus power but has a generally patient plate approach that has led to an impressive .294\/.430\/.498 slash over four Triple-A seasons. His major league track record (.221\/.311\/.313 in nearly 700 plate appearances) is limited, but he\u2019s a capable depth piece.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has questions at both corner infield spots with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jungjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Jung<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burgeja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Burger<\/a> coming off disappointing seasons that could make them trade candidates. Bride isn\u2019t going be a regular but would have a better chance of nabbing a job as a bench bat if one or both of those players \u2014 each of whom also hits from the right side \u2014 are dealt this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers are in agreement with infielder\u00a0Jonah Bride on a minor league contract, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,137470,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-307115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jonah-bride","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}