The Rangers lost 102 games, then 94. This year, they won the first title in franchise history.
PHOENIX -- There is no one way to rebuild a baseball team, and there is no one way to exit that rebuild and ramp up to contention. There is perhaps a sentiment common to the start of any such project, though, one expressed nine months ago in four words by the general manager of baseball's newest champions, the
Now, after all of those requited summers baking in the hot Arlington sun, that title thirst has finally been quenched. In the aftermath of seasons with 102 and 94 losses, the Rangers are champs. How did this Texas-sized turnaround happen so fast?by former lead exec Jon Daniels, the Rangers had in essence started to put the finishing touches on a work on which the outlines were not year clear.
If anything, if there is a takeaway for other teams from the Rangers' sudden success, it's that if you believe in your system, you don't have to wait to invest in the roster. "A few guys go down, but you'll have to face a little adversity in the season to have success," said Eovaldi, a key member of the 2018 champion Red Sox."I feel that was one of our main things this year, we had a lot of key players, not just even pitchers, but a lot of guys step up when one of the guys went down and filled in the role nicely."
When Eovaldi went down, Texas was 19 games over .500 and led the division by 4 1/2 games with the trade deadline looming two weeks away. And then it all started to turn. Nothing was clicking. Bochy's pitching staff was on fumes. It all came to a head during what Young refers to as"the disaster series."
"I think we had to deal with more this year than any year I've ever had to manage," Bochy said."And that's what makes me proud of these guys, too, how they were focused on that as much as, hey, let's focus forward. And they kept doing that." There were still more setbacks at the very end of the Rangers' run. Adolis Garcia, who, along with Seager, powered the Texas offense in October was lost to an oblique injury suffered in Game 3 of the World Series. Scherzer, who shockingly returned during the ALCS, had his back lock up in the same game.
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