{"id":600809,"date":"2026-03-02T01:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600809\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:34:22","slug":"rangers-notes-jung-foscue-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600809\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Notes: Jung, Foscue, Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of injuries have hit the Rangers\u2019 infield mix, as both third baseman Josh Jung<\/a> and former top prospect Justin Foscue<\/a> will be out of action for at least the next 10 days.\u00a0 Manager Skip Schumaker told reporters (including MLB.com\u2019s Kennedi Landry<\/a>) that an MRI revealed that Jung has a Grade 1 adductor strain, while Foscue has a right hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

Neither injury is thought to be particularly serious, and Schumaker felt Jung in particular was going to be back on the field earlier than expected.\u00a0 In Foscue\u2019s case, while his hamstring isn\u2019t a major concern from a health perspective, the missed time is a setback in Foscue\u2019s bid to win a spot on the Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t change anything as far as [Foscue\u2019s] chances,\u201d Schumaker said.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s just gonna lose at-bats, which sucks for him. But\u2026hhe\u2019ll still have two weeks left of camp, really, to try to build up.\u00a0 He should get more at-bats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jung is penciled in as the Rangers\u2019 top choice at third base, and the former eighth overall pick is still looking to firmly establish himself as he enters his fifth Major League season.\u00a0 After making the All-Star team and helping Texas win the World Series in his 2023 rookie season, Jung was limited to 46 games due to a right wrist fracture in 2024.\u00a0 He was healthy last year, but struggled to a .251\/.294\/.390 slash line and 91 wRC+ over 511 plate appearances and was briefly demoted to Triple-A in July.<\/p>\n

Now that Jung has become eligible for salary arbitration, the clock may be ticking to some extent on his future in Texas.\u00a0 He is earning a modest $2.9MM salary in 2026, but if Jung doesn\u2019t take a notable step forward at the plate, he could be a non-tender candidate next offseason if the Rangers decide against giving him more chances at a higher price tag.\u00a0 Schumaker did praise Jung\u2019s development in camp, and felt the third baseman\u2019s work was \u201cabout to translate on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foscue has only three hits over 53 PA at the big league level, translating to a .192 OPS for his brief MLB career.\u00a0 While a small sample size, the rather extreme nature of these struggles has already raised doubts about whether or not Foscue (also a former first-round draft pick, selected 14th overall in 2020) can eventually even hold his own against Major League pitching.<\/p>\n

There have also been questions about Foscue\u2019s ability to stick at second base, and the Rangers have been experimenting with Foscue as an outfielder this spring in an effort to increase his versatility.\u00a0 Being able to handle a corner outfield spot as well as first or second base would help Foscue\u2019s chances of sticking on the 26-man roster, but everything will be on hold until he is healed up from his hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

In other injury news from the Texas camp, Marc Church<\/a> has been sidelined due to a teres major strain, but the right-hander is slated to throw a pair of live bullpen sessions this week, Shawn McFarland of the Dallas Morning News<\/a> writes.\u00a0 Assuming his throwing progression goes as planned, Church should probably get in some game action before Spring Training is over, and he might still have a chance to break camp as a member of the Rangers\u2019 pen.<\/p>\n

The teres major strain is another unwelcome setback for Church, as he has been limited to just 38 2\/3 total innings (33 in the minors, 5 2\/3 in the majors) over the 2024-25 seasons.\u00a0 He missed a big chunk of the 2024 minor league season due to a rotator cuff injury, and he dealt with elbow inflammation, lat problems, and an oblique strain in 2025.\u00a0 If he can finally get healthy, Church is an intriguing candidate for a relief role, as he has a plus slider and splitter to go along with a fastball in the mid-to-high 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of injuries have hit the Rangers\u2019 infield mix, as both third baseman Josh Jung and former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,395,27639,20332,4],"class_list":["post-600809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-josh-jung","tag-justin-foscue","tag-marc-church","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116157015432393017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600809","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=600809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}