{"id":143213,"date":"2026-01-29T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143213\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:32:07","slug":"austin-gomber-signs-minors-contract-with-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143213\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Gomber signs minors contract with Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Veteran left-hander Austin Gomber has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that includes an invitation to major league spring training.<\/p>\n

The Rangers announced Gomber’s deal on Thursday while also extending spring training invites to nine players from within the organization, including their top prospect, 19-year-old infielder Sebastian Walcott.<\/p>\n

Gomber missed the first 2 1\/2 months last season after\u00a0left shoulder soreness in spring training<\/a>, then went 0-7 with a 7.49 ERA in 12 starts for Colorado after his return in mid-June until being released in late August. The 32-year-old lefty is 35-47 with a 5.08 ERA in 168 career games (124 starts) over seven major league seasons, two with St. Louis and the last five with the Rockies.<\/p>\n

Colorado acquired Gomber<\/a>\u00a0in the six-player trade before the start of spring training in 2021 that sent third baseman Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals. Gomber was a fourth-round draft pick by St. Louis out of Florida Atlantic in 2014.<\/p>\n

Walcott will be in his second consecutive big league spring training as a non-roster invitee. He hit .255 with 13 home runs, 59 RBIs, 70 walks and 32 stolen bases in 124 games for Double-A Frisco last season.<\/p>\n

The first workout for Rangers pitchers and catchers is Feb. 10 in Surprise, Arizona. The first full-squad workout is Feb. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Veteran left-hander Austin Gomber has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[556,555,150,152,151,557,102,223,558,154,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-143213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-arlington","11":"tag-arlington-headlines","12":"tag-arlington-news","13":"tag-associated-press","14":"tag-dallas","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-professional-baseball","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143213","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=143213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}