{"id":16835,"date":"2014-03-28T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-sign-baker-to-minor-league-deal-claim-gimenez\/"},"modified":"2014-03-28T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:36:00","slug":"rangers-sign-baker-to-minor-league-deal-claim-gimenez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-sign-baker-to-minor-league-deal-claim-gimenez\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sign Baker to minor league deal, claim Gimenez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Texas Rangers signed pitcher Scott Baker to a minor league contract and claimed catcher Chris Gimenez off waivers from Oakland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Baker is expected to open the season with Triple-A Round Rock. The 32-year- old spent the entire spring in Seattle&#8217;s major league camp as a non-roster invitee, going 1-1 with a 6.75 ERA in four games for the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Baker, who had Tommy John surgery in 2012, returned in September 2013 to make three starts with the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>He has a career record of 63-48 with a 4.15 ERA over 163 games in the major leagues with Minnesota (2005-11) and Chicago-NL (2013).<\/p>\n<p>Gimenez, 31, was in major league spring training camp with the A&#8217;s, batting .242 with three RBI in 25 games. He has seen action in 143 major league games with Cleveland (2009-10), Seattle (2011), and Tampa Bay (2012-13), batting .199 with six homers.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Gimenez on the 40-man roster, the club has designated left- handed pitcher Michael Kirkman for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Texas Rangers signed pitcher Scott Baker to a minor league contract and claimed catcher Chris Gimenez off waivers from Oakland on Friday. Baker is expected to open the season with Triple-A Round Rock. The 32-year- old spent the entire spring in Seattle&#8217;s major league camp as a non-roster invitee, going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,15,14],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}