ARLINGTON, Texas — Two-time All-Star pitcher Johnny Cueto opted out of his minor league contract with the Texas Rangers and was launched Tuesday from Triple-A Spherical Rock.
Cueto was 2-1 with a 5.71 ERA in 9 begins for Spherical Rock, together with a win Sunday when he allowed three runs over six innings in opposition to El Paso. He had 34 strikeouts and eight walks in 41 innings since agreeing to a minor league cope with the Rangers on April 24.
The 38-year-old Cueto was 1-4 with a 6.02 ERA in 10 begins and three reduction appearances for Miami Marlins final season, when the right-hander was on the injured record for greater than three months with a biceps damage. He was left off the workforce’s postseason roster.
Cueto was a part of Kansas Metropolis’s World Sequence title in 2015, when he was teammates with present Rangers common supervisor Chris Younger. Cueto spent the following six seasons after that in San Francisco, the primary 4 with supervisor Bruce Bochy, who’s now in Texas. Cueto was an All-Star in 2016, when he was 18-5 with a 2.79 ERA in 32 begins for the Giants.
He’s 144-111 with a 3.50 ERA in 368 video games (363 begins) over 16 massive league seasons with Cincinnati (2008-15), Kansas Metropolis (2015), the Giants (2016-21), the Chicago White Sox (2022) and the Marlins. Cueto was the Nationwide League Cy Younger Award runner-up behind Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2014, when he was 20-9 with 242 strikeouts in 243 2/3 innings for the Reds.
