The Texas Rangers have not been playing their best ball the past four days. I think it is safe to say that statement is true. So is this the end of the road for the team as it is currently made up?
My answer is a resounding no. This team is talented, and while it has most assuredly not lived up to expectations, think about how far those expectations have come in the last decade or so. From 2000 to 2008, this team was actually bad. The Rangers won an average of 74 games a year during that stretch. They had no playoff appearences. Im fact, from 1973 until 2009, the Rangers had three playoff appearences. Three in 36 years.
Since 2010, the team has averaged aroumd 91 wins per season and have appeared in the post season five times in those seven seasons. They are still very much in the wildcard hunt this season. The Rangers will have an unprecedented six playoff appearences in the past eight seasons. As an outsider looking in, it seems like the franchise is doing okay overall.
There are some issues, especially pitching, but blowing up the entire team is no way to fix pitching woes. I have been thinking about this for a while and I think that sometimes fans (myself included) forget how good we have it at the moment.
Lets stop with all the doomsday talk and get out there and support ateam that has a fighting chance of making it to a sixth playoff appearence in this decade. Let’s remember that we have it much better than any other age of Rangers fans, and that we don’t stop supporting our team because of a slump. Slumps end, and this team is way to talented to be defined by a slump.
