{"id":604873,"date":"2026-04-15T03:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:51:24","slug":"josh-sborzs-deal-with-rangers-has-upward-mobility-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604873\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Sborz’s Deal With Rangers Has Upward Mobility Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rangers may have an upcoming roster decision. Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News<\/a> reports that\u00a0Josh Sborz\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0minor league contract contains an assignment clause that goes into effect tomorrow. Texas will need to make him available to every other team. If another club is willing to carry him on the MLB roster, the Rangers would either need to call him up themselves or let him go.<\/p>\n

Sborz has spent the past six seasons in the Texas organization. The Rangers non-tendered him at the end of the 2025 campaign after he missed the entire season rehabbing shoulder surgery. They brought him back on a minor league contract over the offseason. Sborz did not break camp but has had a strong first few weeks at Triple-A Round Rock.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old reliever has worked seven innings of one-run ball in the minors. Sborz has recorded eight strikeouts against four walks while hitting a batter. His fastball was in the 94-95 mph range during tonight\u2019s Triple-A appearance, in which he fired a perfect inning with a pair of strikeouts. Sborz has used the heater around half the time while mixing a curveball and slider as his secondary offerings.<\/p>\n

Sborz\u2019s performance has been inconsistent throughout his big league career. He has a near-5.00 earned run average over 154 appearances, but he has an above-average 27.7% strikeout rate. Sborz was also a pivotal late-game weapon for Bruce Bochy during the 2023 World Series run, firing 12 innings of one-run ball en route to the only championship in franchise history.<\/p>\n

If no other team is willing to carve out a bullpen spot for Sborz, he\u2019ll remain in Triple-A with Texas. That\u2019d be the easiest outcome for the Rangers. If another club expresses interest and they don\u2019t want to lose him, they\u2019d need to create active and 40-man roster space. The former wouldn\u2019t be difficult, as they could option Luis Curvelo<\/a> back to Triple-A.<\/p>\n

The Rangers\u2019 40-man roster is at capacity.\u00a0Cody Freeman<\/a> and\u00a0Cody Bradford<\/a> are on the injured list and the only candidates for a move to the 60-day IL, which would keep them out of MLB action until the final week of May.<\/p>\n

Shawn McFarland of The Dallas Morning News<\/a> provided updates on both players over the weekend. Freeman is beginning baseball activities after suffering a lower back injury at the beginning of camp. Bradford, who is working back from elbow surgery, made a Triple-A rehab start a couple weeks ago but encountered some general soreness. The Rangers aren\u2019t especially concerned but have halted his rehab work for an indeterminate period so as not to push him too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers may have an upcoming roster decision. Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News reports that\u00a0Josh Sborz\u2019s\u00a0minor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,71490,8618,135790,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-604873","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-cody-bradford","11":"tag-cody-freeman","12":"tag-josh-sborz","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604873","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=604873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}