{"id":415920,"date":"2026-01-19T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:12:07","slug":"source-rangers-signing-reliever-jakob-junis-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415920\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Rangers signing reliever Jakob Junis to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alden GonzalezJan 18, 2026, 07:04 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n

The Texas Rangers<\/a>, looking to solidify their bullpen depth, are bringing in right-handed reliever Jakob Junis<\/a> on a one-year, $4 million contract, a source confirmed to ESPN on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Junis, 33, excels at throwing strikes and avoiding hard contact. With the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> last season, he put up a 2.97 ERA in 57 appearances, striking out 55 batters and issuing only 18 walks in 66\u2154 innings in his first season working exclusively out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

Junis came up as a starting pitcher with the Kansas City Royals<\/a> and remains capable of pitching multiple innings. For his nine-year career, he has put up a 4.36 ERA in 847 innings while walking just six percent of the batters he has faced.<\/p>\n

Junis is one of several relievers added to a Rangers bullpen that has undergone a lot of turnover the last two years, joining the likes of Alex Diaz, Tyler Alexander<\/a>, Carter Baumler, Zak Kent<\/a> and Chris Martin, the latter of whom returned on a similar one-year, $4 million deal.<\/p>\n

The Athletic first reported Junis’ agreement with the Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alden GonzalezJan 18, 2026, 07:04 PM ET CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-415920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415920","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=415920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}