{"id":350616,"date":"2025-12-17T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350616\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:33:44","slug":"rangers-to-re-sign-chris-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350616\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers To Re-Sign Chris Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rangers and veteran right-hander Chris Martin<\/a> are in agreement on a one-year deal, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>. The salary for the ISE Baseball client has not yet been publicly reported. Texas has a couple of 40-man vacancies and doesn\u2019t need to make a corresponding move.<\/p>\n

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Not so long ago, it seemed like Martin was on his way out the door. Just over a year ago, in September of 2024, he said<\/a> he was 95% sure that 2025 would be his final season. He turned 39 years old in June and made a few trips to the injured list during the campaign. The first IL stint was in May due to shoulder fatigue, followed by another in July due to a calf strain. Most ominously, his season was ended in late September due to a diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome.<\/p>\n

Taken all together, it was fair to assume he would be hanging up his spikes. But just a few days ago, it was reported<\/a> that he was planning to pitch in 2026. His current health status isn\u2019t known but presumably the Rangers feel good about what he can contribute next year.<\/p>\n

When he was healthy enough to be on the mound in 2025, his results were still good. He was still averaging in the mid-90s with his four-seamer and sinker, while also mixing in a cutter, splitter, slider and knuckle curve. Long one of the best control pitchers in the majors, he tossed 42 1\/3 innings while only walking 4.6% of batters faced. He also struck out 24.7% of opponents and got grounders on 42.6% of balls in play. Put that all together and he allowed 2.98 earned runs per nine innings for the year.<\/p>\n

The Texas front office has been given some budgetary constraints over the past few years. Last winter, they put together their bullpen primarily via a series of small one-year deals. In addition to Martin, they also signed Hoby Milner<\/a>, Luke Jackson<\/a>, Jacob Webb<\/a> and Shawn Armstrong<\/a>. That actually ended up working quite well, as the Texas bullpen was pretty good in 2025. But since they limited themselves to one-year deals, almost the entire bullpen hit free agency at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Going into 2026, they are looking to rebuild the relief corps but appear to again be working with limited<\/a> resources<\/a>. They recently signed lefty Tyler Alexander<\/a> to a modest one-year deal. They also reportedly have an agreement with Alexis D\u00edaz<\/a>. The numbers on that deal haven\u2019t been reported yet but it\u2019s surely on the low side as well. Martin made $5.5MM in 2025. Given his age and the injuries he dealt with in 2025, he shouldn\u2019t be in line for much of a raise, or any at all.<\/p>\n

RosterResource<\/a> currently projects the Rangers to have a 2026 payroll about $50MM lower than in 2025, but since they are expected to spend less on next year\u2019s team, they should have less than $50MM to work with. They are looking to bolster the rotation and add a righty bat<\/a>, but continuing to build out the bullpen is also on the to-do list.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Lon Horwedel, D. Ross Cameron, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers and veteran right-hander Chris Martin are in agreement on a one-year deal, reports Jeff Passan of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,5538,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-350616","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-chris-martin","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350616","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=350616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}