{"id":128441,"date":"2026-01-18T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128441\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:05:07","slug":"texas-rangers-agree-to-one-year-deal-with-right-hander-jakob-junis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128441\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers agree to one-year deal with right-hander Jakob Junis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\">Texas Rangers<\/a> aren\u2019t done making free agency moves yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The team is signing right-hander Jakob Junis to a one-year deal, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Dallas Morning News. Junis could be another experienced bullpen option for the Rangers in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Junis, 33, appeared in 57 games for the Cleveland Guardians in 2025, posting a 2.97 ERA. He spent just one season in Cleveland, joining the Guardians after pitching for the Cincinnati Reds in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young recently told reporters that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/01\/09\/texas-rangers-position-players-offseason-adding-offense\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/01\/09\/texas-rangers-position-players-offseason-adding-offense\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cpitching is the main focus\u201d<\/a> as the club continues to fortify its roster with spring training approaching quickly. The Rangers have spent the winter rebuilding their relief staff, adding players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/12\/12\/texas-rangers-free-agents-danny-jansen-alexis-diaz-tyler-alexander\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/12\/12\/texas-rangers-free-agents-danny-jansen-alexis-diaz-tyler-alexander\/\" target=\"_blank\">right-hander Alexis D\u00edaz<\/a> in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Rangers fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This post will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Rangers coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click or tap here to sign up for our Rangers newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers aren\u2019t done making free agency moves yet. The team is signing right-hander Jakob Junis to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,6812,154,27,29,28,429],"class_list":{"0":"post-128441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-rangers","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}