{"id":397249,"date":"2026-08-04T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397249\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:16:23","slug":"rangers-dfa-veteran-reliever-chris-martin-on-mlb-trade-deadline-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397249\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers DFA veteran reliever Chris Martin on MLB trade deadline day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He last pitched for the big league team July 11 and had spent the previous two weeks on a minor league rehab assignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/12\/16\/texas-rangers-chris-martin-deal-free-agents-bullpen\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was signed to a one-year, $4 million contract this winter <\/a>after an injury-riddled stint with the team last year and was once considered a candidate to close games for the Rangers earlier this season before it became clear that he&#8217;d lost a step. The Rangers are on the hook for what&#8217;s left of his contract unless another team claims him off waivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He last pitched for the big league team July 11 and had spent the previous two weeks on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1638,7677,89744],"class_list":["post-397249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brief","tag-mlb","tag-tp-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397249","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=397249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}