Times long past, I think it means.
A year ago, it sort of felt — possibly — like that perennial World Series chase was a time long past for the Rangers. We were all pretty sure those 95 losses were freakishly anomalous, due in large part to record-setting injury numbers, but then again there were healthy veterans whose numbers had cratered, too, plus a first-time manager coming in, a couple division rivals who had what appeared to be impact winters, and then, in March, the loss of Yu Darvish for the year.
Instead, it’s now that brutal 2014 that feels like an outlier, an aberration, a time long past.