{"id":468375,"date":"2026-02-11T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468375\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:30:08","slug":"report-rangers-bring-back-pitcher-jordan-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468375\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rangers bring back pitcher Jordan Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-hander <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"e96d88f5-3593-48fb-b1fd-840b41c08cc5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/jordan-montgomery\/e96d88f5-3593-48fb-b1fd-840b41c08cc5\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jordan Montgomery<\/a> signed a one-year, $1.25-million contract with the AL West club, Evan Grant of Dallas News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/11\/texas-rangers-sign-jordan-montgomery-elbow-surgery-2023-world-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery, 33, returns to Arlington after winning the World Series as a member of the Rangers in 2023. During that post-season, he etched his name in franchise lore, appearing in six games (five starts) with a 2.90 ERA over 31 innings.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the past two seasons on a two-year, $45-million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks after his standout performance, but he struggled amid injuries and did not take the mound in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery is also set to miss the start of the 2026 season as he recovers from a second Tommy John surgery last March.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, the Sumter, S.C., native holds a 4.03 ERA over 166 games mostly as a starter over stints with the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Rangers and Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left-hander Jordan Montgomery signed a one-year, $1.25-million contract with the AL West club, Evan Grant of Dallas News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-468375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468375","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=468375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}