{"id":522427,"date":"2026-01-15T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522427\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:50:15","slug":"rosario-leads-rangers-ifa-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522427\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosario leads Rangers IFA class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today starts this year\u2019s signing period for international free agents, and the Texas Rangers have inked a number of prospects to deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The headliner for the class is 17 year old Dominican outfielder Elian Rosario. Listed at 6\u20192\u201d, 195 lbs., Rosario is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/2026-mlb-international-prospects-bonus-board\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#9 on the Baseball America top 100 international prospect list<\/a>. His power is considered his carrying tool, and he projects as a corner outfielder as a professional. He received a $2.5 million signing bonus, which is over a third of the Rangers\u2019 $6.679 million bonus pool for this signing period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rangers have also signed outfielder Jesus Chavez, catcher Santiago Ramirez, righthanded pitcher Frandel Pineda, catcher Frainker Benitez, outfielder Victor Rodriguez, outfielder Carlos Done, and outfielder Ariel Abreu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chavez received the largest bonus of that group, at $600,000. He is ranked #82 on the BA top 100 international prospect list. The other Ranger signee who is on the BA list is Abreu, who is at #100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You can check out Ben Badler\u2019s write-up of the Rangers\u2019 signing class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/texas-rangers-2026-international-class-scouting-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today starts this year\u2019s signing period for international free agents, and the Texas Rangers have inked a number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3622,4,149,38866,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-522427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rangers","12":"tag-rangers-prospects-and-minor-league-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-rangers","15":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115901565190015034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522427","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=522427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}