{"id":498002,"date":"2026-01-18T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/rangers-bolster-bullpen-with-jakob-junis-for-one-season\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:54:55","slug":"rangers-bolster-bullpen-with-jakob-junis-for-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/rangers-bolster-bullpen-with-jakob-junis-for-one-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers bolster bullpen with Jakob Junis for one season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARLINGTON, Texas.\u2013<\/strong> The Texas Rangers have reached an agreement for one season and <strong>US$4 million<\/strong> with right-handed pitcher <strong>Jakob Junis<\/strong>, with the aim of strengthening their bullpen depth, according to a source at <strong>MLB.com<\/strong>. The club has not made the deal official.<\/p>\n\n\nYou may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/dodgers-acuerdan-con-kyle-tucker-por-cuatro-anos-y-us240-millones\/\">Dodgers agree with Kyle Tucker for four years and US$240 million<\/a>\n\nJunis, 33, reached free agency for the fourth time in his career, although for the first time after a season in which he performed exclusively as a reliever. In 2025, with the Cleveland Guardians, the right-hander responded to the coaching staff's confidence by recording <strong>66.2 innings<\/strong> with an <strong>ERA of 2.97<\/strong>, establishing himself as a reliable piece in intermediate situations.\n\nAfter presenting an average of 4.64 earned run average (ERA) before the 2024 season, Junis showed a notable improvement in preventing runs, with an 2.83 ERA in 133.2 innings over the last two campaigns, reflecting an evolution in his repertoire.\n\nHis main weapon continues to be the <strong>slider<\/strong>, a pitch he used in about <strong>45%<\/strong> of his deliveries during the last seasons. Rival batters barely hit <strong>.238<\/strong> against that pitch, with a strikeout rate of <strong>31.4%<\/strong>, thanks to its marked lateral movement type <em>sweeper<\/em>.\n\nThe most significant transformation in his arsenal came with the increase in the use of the <strong>changeup<\/strong>, which went from less than 10% to about <strong>20%<\/strong> of his pitches, an adjustment driven by Cleveland's coaching staff. With that pitch, Junis limited opponents to only <strong>three extra-base hits<\/strong>, without allowing home runs, and achieved <strong>15 strikeouts<\/strong>.\n\nAlthough his fastest pitches were not the most effective \u2014with high batting averages against\u2014, the right-hander managed to minimize the damage by allowing only one home run with both his four-seam fastball and his sinker.\n\nOne of the tracking points in his career is the <strong>decrease in speed<\/strong>, as his fastball has lost just over a mile per hour in recent years. Even so, Junis is shaping up to be a valuable option for the Rangers, who are looking for stability and experience in their bullpen heading into next season.\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas.\u2013 The Texas Rangers have reached an agreement for one season and US$4 million with right-handed pitcher Jakob Junis, with the aim of strengthening their bullpen depth, according to a source at MLB.com. The club has not made the deal official. You may be interested in:Dodgers agree with Kyle Tucker for four years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":{"0":"post-498002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-major-leagues","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}