Rangers End April Looking For The Offense

Was Tuesday the start of a positive offensive regression or will the famine continue?

Back in March, we did a piece on the 2024 season being all about the OPS of the Rangers' lineup dive-bombing from comparisons to the 1927 Yankees in 2023 to something in the lowest depths of the major leagues in just one year.

It was hard to imagine you could not really lose any significant pieces from an offense and suddenly drop from .790 to .686 in just one year. It required every bat to slump for an entire year, all at the same time.

This offered hope and belief that with a long winter of rest and recovery, as well as some hand-picked veteran sluggers to bolster the offense, added to the growth of some very talented youth, perhaps they would meet somewhere in the middle, right?

Surely, the idea would be that the OPS of the Rangers in 2025 would find its bounce back to somewhere in the .740 range and split the difference between 2023 and 2024, right?

Well, actually, no. Not so far. We are pleased to report that there has been significant progress, based on scoring 15 runs last night against Oakland.