The Rangers have definitely exceeded expectations going into June. Not only are they above .500, but they are contending for the playoffs. There’s still a lot of baseball left with 103 games to go, but not many predicted the Rangers would be where they are more than one-third of the way through the season.
The biggest reason the Rangers are where they’re at is their offense. No one would dispute that the 2019 Rangers’ lineup had serious potential. Joey Gallo’s breakout into an MVP-caliber season along with Hunter Pence’s finding of the fountain of youth has catapulted this lineup into one of the most dangerous in baseball.