{"id":419039,"date":"2026-01-19T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419039\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:38:10","slug":"texas-rangers-signing-reliever-jakob-junis-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419039\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers signing reliever Jakob Junis to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Rangers<\/a>, looking to solidify their bullpen depth, are bringing in right-handed reliever Jakob Junis<\/a> on a one-year, $4 million contract, a source confirmed to ESPN on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Junis, 33, excels at throwing strikes and avoiding hard contact. With the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> last season, he put up a 2.97 ERA in 57 appearances, striking out 55 batters and issuing only 18 walks in 66\u2154 innings in his first season working exclusively out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

Junis came up as a starting pitcher with the Kansas City Royals<\/a> and remains capable of pitching multiple innings. For his nine-year career, he has put up a 4.36 ERA in 847 innings while walking just six percent of the batters he has faced.<\/p>\n

Junis is one of several relievers added to a Rangers bullpen that has undergone a lot of turnover the last two years, joining the likes of Alex Diaz, Tyler Alexander<\/a>, Carter Baumler, Zak Kent<\/a> and Chris Martin<\/a>, the latter of whom returned on a similar one-year, $4 million deal.<\/p>\n

The Athletic first reported Junis\u2019 agreement with the Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers, looking to solidify their bullpen depth, are bringing in right-handed reliever Jakob Junis on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,175828,462,82,175829],"class_list":["post-419039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jakob-junis-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-602414","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-237"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419039","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=419039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}