ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Veteran reliever Ryan Brasier has agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that features an invite to main league spring coaching for the Texas native.
The deal was introduced by the Rangers on Tuesday, the identical day because the staff’s first exercise for pitchers and catchers in Surprise, Arizona. Braiser is certainly one of 25 non-roster invitees going to camp with the Rangers.
Brasier was 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA in 28 appearances final yr in his solely season with the Chicago Cubs. The 38-year-old right-hander has a 10-9 report with a 3.90 ERA in 325 profession appearances — all however six of them in aid — for 4 totally different groups over 9 huge league seasons. He has pitched for 2 World Series-winning groups, Boston in 2018 and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024.
After making his huge league debut with the Los Angeles Angels in 2013, Brasier missed all of 2014 due to elbow surgical procedure. He pitched a season in Japan in 2017 earlier than lastly returning to the majors with Boston in 2018. The Red Sox launched him in May 2023, and he signed with the Dodgers, who traded him to the Cubs simply earlier than spring coaching final yr.
Brasier was born and raised in Wichita Falls, about 130 miles from the Rangers’ residence ballpark. He attended Weatherford College and was taken by the Angels within the sixth spherical of the 2007 newbie draft.