{"id":731486,"date":"2026-06-21T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/731486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:09:13","slug":"former-top-prospect-jarred-kelenic-takes-his-latest-big-league-swing-with-the-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/731486\/","title":{"rendered":"Former top prospect Jarred Kelenic takes his latest big league swing with the Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"L6LVRRJSORBDPD75BUN3QO3TUY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Jarred Kelenic is on his fourth team in four seasons, appearing in the big leagues for a second franchise this year after joining each club on a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YPQNGLA5VRFBNODGUZNKJADSME\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">If that sounds a bit like a 30-something journeyman, it\u2019s not. Kelenic made his first start for the Texas Rangers in left field in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a0e34b771a6bfe249c85037efa28d771\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-4 loss in 10 innings to San Diego<\/a> on Saturday, a little less than a month before his 27th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Jarred Kelenic is on his fourth team in four seasons, appearing in the big leagues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[43179,5,91190,4,76331,256,39931,76332,76333,6179,3537,149,185,1567,69,3240],"class_list":["post-731486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-baseball","tag-bbo-rangers-kelenic","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-2026-news","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-highlights","tag-mlb-latest-news","tag-mlb-schedule-2026","tag-mlb-scores","tag-mlb-news","tag-rangers","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116786375130751734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731486","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=731486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}