The Rangers are outperforming projections, which has led to people fighting about what that means
The Texas Rangers were underdogs heading into the season. Many prognosticators expected them to finish in last place in the A.L. West, and the general consensus was that they were a .500 team at best, especially once Yu Darvish went down for the season. And even mediocrity seemed ambitious in mid-May, when Texas was 9.5 games back in the A.L. West with a 16-23 record.
Yet, here we are, with two and a half weeks to go in the season, Texas has a 78-67 record, is 1.