The Texas Rangers have re-signed right-handed pitcher Jason Jennings.

Don't freak out.

It's a one-year minor league contract. The deal does include an invitation to major league spring training camp, though.

Jennings, 30, joined the Rangers as a free agent last year after spending his first 8 campaigns in the Colorado Rockies organization.

He made 6 starts in his American League with the Rangers, including the club's Arlington home opener, before undergoing season-ending surgery on May 30 to repair a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow for a second straight year.

Jennings was born in Dallas and raised in Mesquite, where he graduated from Poteet High School in 1996. Jennings then played three years at Baylor, where he was the consensus 1999 National Player of the Year after his junior season.

With this move, Texas is now scheduled to have 55 players participate in major league spring training, including 16 non-roster invitees. The Rangers still have 39 players on the club's 40-man roster.

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