{"id":730305,"date":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/730305\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","slug":"rangers-option-josh-smith-select-jarred-kelenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/730305\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Option Josh Smith, Select Jarred Kelenic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/darragh\" title=\"Posts by Darragh McDonald\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh McDonald<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at June 19, 2026 3:05pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Rangers announced that they have selected the contract of outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kelenja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jarred Kelenic<\/a>. Infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithjo11,smith-030jos&amp;search=Josh+Smith&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Smith<\/a> has been optioned to Triple-A Round Rock as the corresponding active roster move. Infielder\/outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/helmami01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Helman<\/a> has been transferred to the 60-day injured list to open a 40-man spot.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Darragh McDonald | at June 19, 2026 3:05pm CDT The Rangers announced that they have selected the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1043,43377,10942,4],"class_list":["post-730305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-jarred-kelenic","tag-josh-smith-1997","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116778601271053012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730305","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=730305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}