The Texas Rangers won 95 games last season, and the rest of the baseball world said they were lucky.
Something about run differential. The stats experts wouldn’t take Tom Wilhelmsen and Kyle Lohse as an excuse.
And now here come this year’s preseason baseball magazines, washing their hands of a team that led the American League in victories.
Key personnel losses, they’re calling it.
The Rangers, they point out, lost Mitch Moreland, Ian Desmond and Carlos Beltran.
Yeah. So?
Free agency happens in baseball. Sometimes you tell them to deal you in, sometimes you don’t.