The Texas Rangers’ 2024 tailspin was briefly halted yesterday when the Rangers stomped the Baltimore Orioles by an 11-2 score, putting an end to a six game losing streak and allowing Texas to start their home series this week on a more positive note.
Nonetheless, Texas is now eight games back of the Seattle Mariners for first place in the American League West, eight games out of the third Wild Card spot (nine games out of the second Wild Card spot), and increasingly looking like sellers at the July deadline. Not where we expected to see things play out for the defending champion Texas Rangers in 2024, but whatevs, they won it all last year, and so I’m generally more chill about the situation than I would be otherwise.