{"id":529167,"date":"2026-01-20T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529167\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:49:12","slug":"texas-rangers-news-and-links-january-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529167\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers News and Links &#8211; January 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/01\/19\/texas-rangers-josh-smith-second-base-questions-2026-mlb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Grant ponders<\/a> how having a set every day position at second base could impact Josh Smith and the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/01\/19\/cody-bradford-texas-rangers-injury-rehab-2026-progress-mlb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn McFarland writes<\/a> that rehabbing lefty Cody Bradford is aiming to be an early-season addition to the rotation for the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At The Athletic, Chad Jennings has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6984114\/2026\/01\/20\/mlb-offseason-tiers-teams-trying\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a \u201ctrying\u201d tier list<\/a> where, as you might expect in his lean winter, the Rangers aren\u2019t listed particularly high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Grant ponders how having a set every day position at second base could impact Josh Smith and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3622,4,149,39144,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-529167","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-morning-links-posts","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-rangers","15":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115927984854084859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529167","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=529167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}