{"id":110872,"date":"2025-06-17T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/110872\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:57:09","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-june-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/110872\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; June 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ffE4Gw\">Good morning.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FHad6m\">Evan Grant notes that Josh Smith was awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/06\/16\/texas-rangers-infielder-josh-smith-earns-al-player-of-the-week-honor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American League Player of Week honors<\/a> after sporting an OPS of 1.269 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarball.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LDHjNI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/1053thefan\/sports\/texas-rangers\/sandler-on-rangers-offense-kumar-rocker-bounce-back-trades\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Sandler was on 105.3 The Fan<\/a> chatting about the Texas bats and Kumar Rocker\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Q2pauu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/06\/16\/the-jacob-degrom-sequence-how-the-rangers-are-encountering-a-math-problem-with-their-ace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant writes<\/a> that math, not arm issues, might be the problem facing Jacob deGrom and the Rangers down the line.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7FaDgE\">Kennedi Landry lists acquiring an impact bat as <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2F2025-mlb-trade-deadline-needs-for-each-team&amp;referrer=sbnation.com&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lonestarball.com%2F2025%2F6%2F17%2F24450699%2Ftexas-rangers-news-update-june-17\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" has-subtag=\"true\" data-cdata=\"{\" rewritten_url=\"\">the target for Texas<\/a> with trade deadline season nearing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dxjnwP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/06\/16\/sherrington-should-texas-rangers-have-jumped-ahead-of-giants-for-rafael-devers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Sherrington ponders<\/a> if Rafael Devers should have been that impact bat acquisition for Texas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6qYOoG\">And, the Rangers generously land at 25th in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45525740\/mlb-2025-midseason-lineup-offense-rankings-dodgers-yankees-cubs-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the ESPN midseason lineup rankings<\/a>, signaling that they could perhaps use that impact bat.<\/p>\n<p id=\"oKcmn8\">Have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. Evan Grant notes that Josh Smith was awarded American League Player of Week honors after sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[686,2229,5,181,11220,7002,3243,4,169,149,3244,1567,69,9588,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-110872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-ball","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-june","13":"tag-links","14":"tag-lone","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-rangers","18":"tag-star","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-texas-rangers","21":"tag-texas_rangers_news_links","22":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114699530636384819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}