In baseball, you hardly stay on top of the world for long. The amount of parity in the sport is pretty astounding. Some years the expected worst teams end up being the best and vice versa. Which really shows how impressive the period from 2009 to 2016–where they averaged 88 wins per season–was and it’s only that low because of the injury-ridden 2014 season. Heartbreak season after heartbreak season you quickly learn that the window for a championship doesn’t stay open for long, and sadly the Rangers window got slammed shut in 2017.
The last two seasons haven’t gone so well, as things got stale very fast.