{"id":529269,"date":"2026-01-20T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529269\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:13:14","slug":"tuesday-morning-texas-rangers-update-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529269\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Morning Texas Rangers Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Good morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Evan Grant ponders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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=\"\">Jeff Wilson checks out <a href=\"https:\/\/alldlls.com\/texas-rangers-bullpen-jakob-junis-carter-baumler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:how the rebooted bullpen is shaping up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">how the rebooted bullpen is shaping up<\/a> after the Rangers make the signing of Jakob Junis official.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Shawn McFarland writes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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=\"\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:a \u201ctrying\u201d tier list;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a \u201ctrying\u201d tier list<\/a> where, as you might expect in his lean winter, the Rangers aren\u2019t listed particularly high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And, Matt Snyder predicts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/2026-baseball-hall-of-fame-voting-results-prediction-time-tv-channel-live-stream-how-to-watch-online\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:how things might shake out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">how things might shake out<\/a> tonight as the next Hall of Fame class is set to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. Evan Grant ponders how having a set every day position at second base could impact Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,20415,9391,9116,8640,26981,392,40390,4,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":["post-529269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-chad-jennings","tag-cody-bradford","tag-evan-grant","tag-jakob-junis","tag-jeff-wilson","tag-josh-smith","tag-matt-snyder","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115928315287868243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529269","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=529269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}