{"id":540818,"date":"2026-01-27T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/540818\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:02:13","slug":"rock-falls-native-jakob-junis-signs-with-texas-rangers-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/540818\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Falls native Jakob Junis signs with Texas Rangers \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Jakob Junis, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/rock-falls-preps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/rock-falls-preps\/\">Rock Falls<\/a> native who spent last season pitching for the Cleveland Guardians, recently signed with the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The right-handed pitcher, who spent last year in relief, agreed to a one-year contract worth $4 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/jakob-junis-rangers-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/jakob-junis-rangers-contract\">according to MLB.com.<\/a> The 33-year-old appeared in 57 games, finishing with a 2.97 earned-run average and 4-1 record in 66.2 innings pitched. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">It was the first season in his nine-year MLB career he did not make a start. Junis made six starts in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The Rangers had the best team ERA in the American League last season at 3.47. The Guardians were second at 3.70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Junis made his MLB debut with the Kansas City Royals in 2017, where he played for five seasons. He\u2019s also played for the Giants, Brewers and Reds before joining Cleveland last season. He has a career record of 46-46 and a 4.36 ERA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Junis graduated from Rock Falls in 2011 and was drafted by the Royals in the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakob Junis, a Rock Falls native who spent last season pitching for the Cleveland Guardians, recently signed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3263,19390,4,4043,4044,149,71543,39267,1567,69,3240],"class_list":["post-540818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-ihsa","tag-mlb","tag-premium","tag-prep-sports","tag-rangers","tag-sauk-valley","tag-sauk-valley-front-headlines","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115968144030522676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540818","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=540818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}