This May Be the Year It Falls into Place for the Texas Rangers

Posted: 16th April 2010 by Tom Au in MLB
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The Texas Rangers have always been prominent on one side of the baseball equation—hitting. This was the team, after all, that signed A-Rod and drafted Mark Teixiera (who are now playing for tonight's opponent, the high-budget Yankees). This year is starting out a bit differently. Vladimir Guerrero, Nelson Cruz and Elvis Andrus are hitting well. Others, like Michael Young and Julio Borbon are not—so far. But the Rangers have, in the past, been weak on the other side of baseball—pitching. In 2008, for example, they scored 901 runs, the most in baseball. However, they gave up 967, which is why they did not have a winning season. Pitching is not a problem this year. At least not so far. The Rangers have five starters with ERAs below 3.00 in the year to date—C.J. Wilson, ...

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