{"id":562598,"date":"2026-02-09T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/562598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:48:28","slug":"rangers-reacts-results-the-fifth-starter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/562598\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Reacts Results: The Fifth Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">We asked in the Rangers Reacts Survey who should be the Texas Rangers\u2019 fifth starter to start the 2026 season. With the results having come in, there is a pretty clear preference for lefthander Jacob Latz.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/446a1b0a2b3d5b6de415fc9129d1d7ea.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The most likely candidates currently appear to be Latz, who spent the bulk of 2025 in the bullpen but with a few starts mixed in, and Kumar Rocker, who started all year, with both pitchers spending some time in the minors as well as the majors. Latz, with a 2.84 ERA and 3.72 FIP, outperformed, Rocker, who had a 5.74 ERA and 4.88 on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We asked in the Rangers Reacts Survey who should be the Texas Rangers\u2019 fifth starter to start the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,19541,360,4,149,1567,69,3240,74156],"class_list":{"0":"post-562598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jacob-latz","10":"tag-kumar-rocker","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-rangers","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-rangers","15":"tag-texasrangers","16":"tag-the-rangers-reacts-survey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116041699895011277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562598","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=562598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}