Click here to see five questions the Rangers answered during the 2022 season. The season was supposed to be about solving issues, but the Rangers raised at...
Texas Rangers general manager Chris Young and Rangers President of Baseball Operations Jon Daniels address reporters during a press conference after announcing the firing of manager Chris Woodward at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022.
Before the season, Rangers GM Chris Young and then-manager Chris Woodward talked about creating a championship culture. It might not equate to a playoff berth in 2022, but there would be a foundation set for championship standards and expectations. Traditionally, that means traits like accountability, teamwork and communication. Those things can be hard to quantify. But the Rangers seemed to function more like a mass of individual parts, rather than a team.
Actually, it’s a question continued. Going on a decade now. The Rangers haven’t had a left fielder start even half the team’s games in a season since David Murphy started 106 in 2013. In 2022, 13 different players each started at least one game in left, a club record. The Rangers ranked 29th in the majors in WAR from that group of 13; the third straight year they were 29th or last.
At the start of September, this was not a question. Taveras spent most of the summer demonstrating that, yes, in fact, he really was ready for the major leagues. But the swoon over the last five weeks of the season has raised some flags. Taveras was hitting .290 with .744 OPS on Sept. 1; the batting average had fallen 30 points and the OPS 70 entering the final day of the season. The Rangers sat him – the youngest player on the roster – three times in the final 10 days of the season.
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