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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Veteran left-hander Austin Gomber has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that includes an invitation to major league spring training.<\/p>\n

The Rangers announced Gomber’s deal on Thursday while also extending spring training invites to nine players from within the organization, including their top prospect, 19-year-old infielder Sebastian Walcott.<\/p>\n

Gomber missed the first 2 1\/2 months last season after left shoulder soreness in spring training<\/a>, then went 0-7 with a 7.49 ERA in 12 starts for Colorado after his return in mid-June until being released in late August. The 32-year-old lefty is 35-47 with a 5.08 ERA in 168 career games (124 starts) over seven major league seasons, two with St. Louis and the last five with the Rockies.<\/p>\n

Colorado acquired Gomber<\/a> in the six-player trade before the start of spring training in 2021 that sent third baseman Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals. Gomber was a fourth-round draft pick by St. Louis out of Florida Atlantic in 2014.<\/p>\n

Walcott will be in his second consecutive big league spring training as a non-roster invitee. He hit .255 with 13 home runs, 59 RBIs, 70 walks and 32 stolen bases in 124 games for Double-A Frisco last season.<\/p>\n

The first workout for Rangers pitchers and catchers is Feb. 10 in Surprise, Arizona. The first full-squad workout in Feb. 15.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Veteran left-hander Austin Gomber has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[4704,635,4705,4706,4707,5,4708,1004,1487,3995,167,52,4316,4703,4,168],"class_list":["post-545937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-aaron-munoz","tag-alan-trejo","tag-andy-gonzalez","tag-anthony-molina","tag-austin-gomber","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-bud-black","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-elias-diaz","tag-mlb","tag-rockies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115984568538233201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545937","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=545937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}