{"id":526073,"date":"2026-01-18T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/526073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:18:09","slug":"rangers-sign-jakob-junis-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/526073\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Sign Jakob Junis &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers have signed right-hander <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/junisja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jakob Junis<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year, $4MM contract, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2013008694527869416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal<\/a>.\u00a0 The move will become official once Texas makes a corresponding move on its 40-man roster.\u00a0 Junis is represented by the Wasserman Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2013009364039209085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">adds<\/a> in a follow-up note that Texas will indeed use Junis as a reliever, coming off Junis\u2019 first bullpen-only season of his nine-year MLB career.\u00a0 Junis has started 116 of his 249 career games, and still made some spot starts and swingman-esque appearances in 2023-24 even as he took on larger relief roles.\u00a0 In 2025, however, Junis signed a one-year, $4.5MM deal with the Guardians and worked only as a reliever over his 57 appearances and 66 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers have signed right-hander Jakob Junis to a one-year, $4MM contract, according to The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":526074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[233618,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-526073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-jakob-junis","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115918425582134277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}