After turning down a contract offer, the Texas Rangers formally announced the signing of another highly regarded star.
Three players remain eligible for salary arbitration after the Texas Rangers signed right-handed pitchers Josh Sborz and Dane Dunning to one-year contracts prior to the Friday night contract tendering deadline.
In 2025, Dunning’s $2.66 million contract includes $985,000 in performance bonuses that are determined by the number of innings he pitches. This is less than his $3,325,000 pay from the previous season, when he missed two games due to issues with his right shoulder.
Pitching 30, 40, 50, and 60 innings may make him $50,000; 70, 80, and 90 innings can earn him $75,000; and 100, 105, 110, 120, 130, 140, and 150 innings can earn him $80,000.
Sborz received a $1.1 million contract with $250,000 in incentives depending on innings pitched after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder earlier this month. This year, he made $1,025,000. Pitching five innings may earn Sborz $25,000, ten innings can earn $50,000, fifteen innings can earn $75,000, and twenty innings can earn $100,000.
All 27 eligible players received contract offers from Texas for 2025.
After recording the final seven outs in Game 5 of 2023’s World Series championship-winning victory against Arizona, Sborz was put on the disabled list four times this season and missed 107 games.
On Friday, the Rangers revealed that Sborz underwent a debridement treatment on November 13 in Los Angeles, performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache. The squad anticipates that Sborz will play again in the first half of 2025.
Sborz finished the season with a 2-2 record and a 3.86 ERA despite only pitching 16 1/3 innings in 17 appearances.
Dunning was sent down to Triple-A Round Rock at one point during the season and missed 29 games while on the disabled list. He split his time between the starting rotation and the bullpen, like he did during the World Series season, and finished 5-7 with a 5.31 ERA in 26 games (15 starts) with the Rangers.
TaggedMLB on its roster of major league teams. Among those eligible for salary arbitration were center fielder Leody Taveras, switch-hitting catcher Jonah Heim, and first baseman Nathaniel Lowe.
