{"id":18996,"date":"2025-07-18T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18996\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:19:09","slug":"texas-rangers-honor-nathan-eovaldi-with-all-star-bonus-despite-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18996\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers honor Nathan Eovaldi with All-Star bonus despite snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers are still giving Eovaldi a $100,000 bonus, as outlined in his contract for making an All-Star team.<\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Texas Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi didn&#8217;t make the American League All-Star team in one of the more confounding snubs in recent memory. Seriously, Eovaldi &#8212; who missed time with injury earlier this year but is still only a few innings from qualifying for league stat categories &#8212; has a 1.58 ERA and 94 strikeouts through 91 innings.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Rangers are doing right by their clubhouse leader: They&#8217;re still giving Eovaldi a $100,000 bonus, as outlined in his contract for making an All-Star team.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1945530749639131268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to ESPN insider Jeff Passan<\/a>, who broke the news Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As Passan noted, Eovaldi has been brilliant in 2025, despite missing some time with injury in June. And also as Passan noted, Eovaldi is one of the most respected players in the game, and he&#8217;s been a consistent leader for the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Jacob deGrom and Tyler Mahle (who remains on the shelf, at the moment), Eovaldi has powered the Rangers pitching staff to a league-leading ERA. More importantly, the club&#8217;s top arms have kept Texas in the playoff race, despite a brutal start from the offense.<\/p>\n<p>deGrom, the Rangers&#8217; lone official All-Star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/sports\/mlb\/rangers\/mlb-all-star-game-bonus-money-pay-jacob-degrom-texas-rangers\/287-d50aa22e-ef2d-45ca-a112-72779169d42a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">also received a $100,000 bonus<\/a> from the team, per his contract, according to Spotrac. deGrom carried a 2.32 ERA across 112.1 innings pitched before the All-Star break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool gesture: The Texas Rangers gave starter Nathan Eovaldi the $100,000 All-Star bonus in his contract even though he didn\u2019t make the American League team. Eovaldi has been brilliant this season, posting a 1.58 ERA over 91 innings. He\u2019s one of the most respected players in MLB.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1945530749639131268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>deGrom is third in the American League in ERA. Eovaldi would be the runaway leader if he had enough innings, and he almost does. Starting pitchers need to have at least one inning pitched for every game played to qualify for league-leading stats. The Rangers have played 97 games, and Eovaldi has thrown 91 innings. If he stays healthy the rest of the way, he&#8217;ll easily eclipse the mark needed to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers are still giving Eovaldi a $100,000 bonus, as outlined in his contract for making an All-Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-18996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}