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    Texas Rangers Franchise Information

    Have a read on below at some quick stats and facts on the Texas Rangers to get you started:

    Established:1961
    Stadium:Globe Life Field
    Colours:Blue, red & white
    Hall of Famers:Nellie Fox, Ted Williams, Harold Baines, Ivan Rodriguez & Nolan Ryan
    Hall of Fame General Managers: None
    Rivals:Houston Astros
    Legends:Ivan Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, Adrian Beltre, Buddy Bell, Jim Sundburg, Charlie Hough, Juan Gonzalez, Kenny Rogers, Elvis Andrus, Frank Howard, Michael Young, Alex Rodriguez, Josh Hamilton, Rusty Greer, Ferguson Jenkins, Ruben Sierra, Julio Franco & Pete O’Brien
    Retired Numbers:7, 10, 26, 29, 34 & 42
    League: American League
    Division:West Division
    World Series Championships: None

    Texas Rangers History

    The Texas Rangers are among a handful of Major League Baseball teams that have never won the World Series. But the team has seen some success over the years, although it took relocation from the District of Columbia and a few decades for them to reach the playoffs.

    The Texas Rangers began playing in 1961 as the Washington Senators. The team was the second iteration of the Senators, as the original club relocated to Minneapolis to become the Minnesota Twins. 

    Major League Baseball created the new Senators and the California Angels as expansion clubs in 1961. MLB was no longer exempt from the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the proposal of a third major league called the Continental League proved to be too much of a threat to MLB.

    The Senators were consistently at the bottom of the American League standings. The team’s worst season came in 1963, when the club went 56-106, a mark that is still the worst in franchise history. The team had three managers that season, with Gil Hodges going 42-79. Future New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays coach Don Zimmer went .248 at third base.

    The Senators lost at least a hundred games in each of their first four seasons. Their best record in their DC era was an 86-76 mark in 1969, putting them in fourth place in the six-team AL East. Outfielder Frank Howard had 48 home runs in the second of three straight seasons where he had forty dingers.

    The club struggled to bring in fans and would relocate in 1972 after no one bothered to purchase the Senators. But the team eventually moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex following a proposal from Arlington Mayor Tom Vandergriff.

    The Senators would move after the 1971 season. The team’s final home game at RFK Stadium ended in a forfeit. Hundreds of fans stormed the field in the ninth inning and tore up the field in protest, with one person literally stealing a base.

    The team took the Texas Rangers moniker in honor of the Texas Rangers, a law enforcement group formed by Stephen F. Austin while Texas was a part of Mexico in the 1820s. The team also settled on Arlington Stadium as their new home. The ballpark is in Arlington, a city located between Dallas and Fort Worth as part of the DFW Metroplex.

    The club didn’t make it to the playoffs in the 1970s or 1980s. The club surprised people in 1974 with an 84-76 record. The team had at least a hundred losses in the two seasons prior to 1974. 

    The club won multiple awards, with outfielder Jeff Burroughs being the AL MVP and first baseman Mike Hargrove being the AL Rookie of the Year. Ferguson Jenkins also won 25 games in 1974, a team record that still stands today.

    The Rangers went 83-79 in a 1989 season marked by two noteworthy points. The season was Nolan Ryan’s first year with the Rangers. The 42-year-old Ryan pitched his final five years with the Rangers, tallying 301 strikeouts in 1989. 

    He threw 939 of his 5,714 strikeouts with the Rangers. He also had two of his seven no-hitters with the Rangers. He would eventually go on to co-found Rangers Baseball Express, the organization that purchased the Rangers in 2010.

    The other prominent part of the 1989 season came when the team was sold to a local investment group for $89 million. Among the members of that group were George W. Bush, the son of United States President George H.W. Bush. 

    Bush sold his stake in the team in 1998 and eventually became the Governor of Texas and soon the President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. The Rangers moved to the Ballpark at Arlington in 1994. The ballpark would be renamed Globe Life Park in Arlington a few years later.

    While the new ballpark was popular among Rangers fans, the team still dealt with issues surrounding intense heat during home games. Two home games at Arlington Stadium hold the record for the hottest game in MLB history, as the team had one game each in 1980 and 1988 where the temperature was 109 degrees Fahrenheit.

    The club had a game in 2018 where the temperature was 107 degrees at first pitch. The team also had two games in 2011 when the temperature was 106.

    The Rangers finally made it to the playoffs in 1996. The 90-72 Rangers won the AL West title, but they lost to the New York Yankees in the ALDS. The Rangers also won the AL West title in 1998 and 1999, but they were swept by the Yankees in the ALDS in both those seasons.

    Catcher Ivan Rodriguez proved to be a star with the Rangers from 1991 to 2002. Rodriguez won the 1999 AL MVP honor with a .332 average and 35 home runs. 

    Pudge had thirteen Gold Gloves and seven Silver Slugger awards in his career, and he also reached the All-Star Game fourteen times. He eventually won the World Series with the Florida Marlins in 2003 and led the league in catching base stealers nine times.

    The Rangers made one of the most significant free agency splashes in the sport’s history in 2001. The team signed Seattle Mariners shortstop Alex Rodriguez to a ten-year contract worth $252 million, the most valuable contract at the time.

    The A-Rod deal didn’t work out well for the Rangers, as the team failed to make the playoffs from 2001 to 2009. The team finished in third or fourth place in the AL West in all but two seasons in that time frame. 

    Rodriguez won the 2003 AL MVP honor with 47 home runs and a .298 average. But he only lasted for three years in Arlington, although he had a .305 average with 156 home runs. The Rangers traded him to the New York Yankees in 2004, where he would win two more MVP awards and a World Series.

    Ron Washington joined the team as their new manager in 2007. He would go on to be the longest-tenured manager in franchise history, staying with the Rangers until 2014. He went 664-611 with the team and led them to two American League pennants.

    Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton made history in the 2008 MLB Home Run Derby, as he hit 28 home runs in one round at the original Yankee Stadium in New York. He finished in second place to the Minnesota Twins’ Justin Morneau. 

    Hamilton’s record was broken by Joc Pederson and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in 2019. Hamilton went on to hit 32 home runs and tally 130 RBI in 2008. He also once intentionally walked with the bases loaded.

    The team saw its fortunes change in 2010, the same year Rangers Baseball Express acquired the team. The 2010 club went 21-6 in June and had an eleven-game winning streak. 

    The team defeated Tampa Bay and the New York Yankees to reach the World Series, where they lost in five games to San Francisco. Hamilton won the AL MVP honor with a .359 average and 32 home runs.

    The team made it to the World Series once again in 2011, as they went 96-66. But the team lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games, as the Cardinals came from behind on their final strike twice in the sixth game of the World Series.

    The Rangers reached the Wild Card round in 2012, and they won the AL West in 2015 and 2016. The club hasn’t reached the playoffs since. Washington also departed the team after the 2014 season, where he went 53-87 and was temporarily replaced by Tim Bogar midway through the season.

    Adrian Beltre proved to be highly successful with the Rangers in the 2010s. He was a four-time All-Star in his eight seasons with the club. He also had 1,277 hits, which is more than what he had with each of the three other teams he played for in his career. Beltre had 3,166 hits and 477 home runs in twenty-one seasons in the sport.

    The club went 22-38 in 2020, with Lance Lynn being the only starting pitcher with a winning record at 6-3. He also had a 3.32 ERA, making him the only regular starter with an ERA under 5.00. The team also moved to Globe Life Field in 2020. The new ballpark features a retractable roof, a necessity for the intense summer heat in the Metroplex.

    The 2021 season was no kind to the Rangers, and they finished with a season record of 60-102. They were one of four teams in the league to endure 100+ losses in a season. The Rangers finished dead last in the AL West, 35 games behind the Astros, who won the division.

    The Texas Rangers finished the 2022 Major League Baseball season with a record of 68-94, which put them in fourth place in the American League West Division. They did not qualify for the playoffs in 2022. The Rangers spent a ton of money over the offseason however they never seemed like they were able to put it all together and it led to a disappointing season.

    Expert 2023 Picks & Preview on Texas Rangers

    If you are a fan of the Texas Rangers, then you know that the only thing that matters right now is how they are expected to perform in the 2023 season. Do the Texas Rangers have the star power to make it all the way to the World Series in 2023?

    The 2023 season of MLB is here, and our experts have gone through the Texas Rangers and found some key picks to note. Have a read below as we preview the Rangers upcoming season. 

    Preview on the Texas Rangers’ Manager: Bruce Bochy

    Bruce Bochy will be managing his first season with the Texas Rangers. This is his first managerial job in sometime and he is most notable for leading the San Francisco Giants to several World Series during the 2010s. Prior to managing the San Francisco Giants, he was the manager of the San Diego Padres for eleven seasons. Prior to that he had a decade long playing career in the major leagues as a catcher.

    He was named the 1996 national league manager of the year, and if somehow he wins the American league manager of the year he’ll become one of the rare few to win the award in both leagues. He has won over 2000 games in his managerial career and is one of the oldest active managers in the league.

    Preview on the Texas Rangers’ Key Player: Corey Seager

    After spending the entirety of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Seager now makes the jump from the National League West to the American League West to play for the Texas Rangers. 

    Seager was the key piece for the Texas Rangers this off-season. As they spent a ton of money to retool their team to be competitive in what should be a three team race in the American League West between themselves, Houston, and Los Angeles. 

    It should be another big year for Corey Seager this season and it will be interesting to see how he does against American League pitching for a full season for the first time in his career. 

    He was very productive for the Rangers last season, as he belted 33 homeruns and drove in 83 runs batted in. In total he had 145 hits and hit for an average of .245 in 151 games. Those 33 long balls in a career high for Corey Seager to the change in the environment shows that the power has always been there, he is just in a hitter friendly park now.

    Preview on the Texas Rangers’ Next Best: Marcus Semian

    Marcus Semian is the other key piece for the Texas Rangers that they added this off-season. Semian is heading into his tenth Major League season after spending time with Chicago, Oakland, and Toronto.

    His huge season last year with the Blue Jays in just one of the reasons why he got a 7 year 175 million dollar contract from the Rangers in the off-season. After he hit 45 home runs drove in 102 runs and led the league with 86 extra base hits.  

    It’ll be another big year for Semian in Texas as he returns to a division he is familiar with. He could easily even surpass his numbers from last season as well. 

    However, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t productive last season as he produced 163 hits and drove in 83 runs batted in. Now they will be hoping that he can replicate is 2021 production with the Toronto Blue Jays.

    Texas Rangers Betting & Odds Preview 2023

    The Texas Rangers were given +1000 odds to win the 2023 American League West division this season. Their odds to win the American League Pennant were +2500 prior to the season starting. 

    While their odds to take home the Commissioner’s Trophy and win the World Series were set at +5000. Their total over/under for victories this season is set at 81.5, With odds of (-110) for the over and (-110) for the under. Last season they managed to finish the season with a record of 68-94.

    Their odds to win their division are the second lowest odds out of the five teams. While their odds to win the American League pennant is 10th out of 15 teams. They rank 18th in total odds among the entire league to win the World Series this season out of thirty teams.

    Texas Rangers FAQ

    Still got some burning questions about the Texas Rangers? Well, we have answered some of the most common questions people have, hopefully, you will find the answer you are looking for below!

    Where do the Texas Rangers play?

    The Texas Rangers play at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. The ballpark opened in 2020 and is not to be confused with Globe Life Park, the team’s former stadium in Arlington. The ballpark is named for Globe Life, a financial services company based out of McKinney.

    Who owns the Texas Rangers?

    The Rangers Baseball Express organization runs the Rangers. Ray Davis and Bob Simpson are the chairmen of the group.

    Have the Texas Rangers won an MLB World Series?

    Although the team did reach the World Series in 2010 and 2011, the Rangers have never won a World Series.

    Who is the Texas Rangers general manager?

    Chris Young is the general manager of the Texas Rangers. He played for the team as a pitcher from 2004 to 2005.

    Do the Texas Rangers play tonight?

    Check with SportsTips to see what the Texas Rangers are doing tonight and every night throughout the baseball season.

    What is the Texas Rangers record?

    The Texas Rangers went 68-94 in 2022 and this was one of the worst records in the league.

    Did the Texas Rangers win last night?

    Fans of the Texas Rangers are all wanting to know if they won the game last night. You can find more information in relation to the team’s recent form in games on the page at the top.

    How much are the Texas Rangers worth?

    The Rangers are worth $2.05 billion as of 2022. Ray Davis and Bob Simpson acquired the team in 2010 for about $600 million.

    Who do the Texas Rangers play tonight?

    Like a lot of things in the MLB, things change pretty quickly. So, if you are looking for more information about who the Texas Rangers play tonight, you have come to the right place. We have all this information for you in detail, you can find these details for upcoming games at the top of the page.

    How to watch the Texas Rangers?

    The team’s games air on Fox Sports Southwest, which is available throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and the eastern end of New Mexico. You can also watch the Rangers on MLB.tv if you are outside their coverage area.

    Will the Texas Rangers make the playoffs this year?

    The Rangers finished in 4th place in the AL West in 2022.

    When do the Texas Rangers play?

    Texas Rangers fans are always looking for more information about when their team plays the next game. For all the information you have been craving and more, be sure to check the top of this page. Here at SportsTips, we list all the information you need like the time of the first pitch, location of the game and the all important MLB odds.

    Where did the Texas Rangers finish the season?

    The Rangers were in 4th place in the AL West in 2022.

    How many games did the Texas Rangers win?

    The Rangers won 68 games in 2022.