Texas Rangers 2025 Season Preview

The Rangers went from World Series champions to not making the playoffs in 2024. Injuries hammered the pitching staff, particularly the starters. Talk about a yo-yo. They went from 68 wins to 90 wins and dropped to 78. The AL West is tough sledding, and teams need to stay healthy in order to compete. Texas didn’t and has to hope it will in 2025 for people to jump on board and have them in MLB playoff predictions.

2025 Texas Rangers Win Total Projection & World Series Odds

In World Series odds, MLB predictions on the futures market have Texas at +2200. That’s middling and suggests people have hopes the Rangers will play more like 2023 than 2024. The Rangers’ win total projection sits at 86.5.

2025 Texas Rangers Projected Starting Lineup

• Marcus Semien, 2B
• Corey Seager, DH
• Wyatt Langford, LF
• Adolis García, RF
• Jake Burger, 1B
• Josh Jung, 3B
• Kevin Pillar, CF
• Kyle Higashioka, C
• Josh Smith, SS.

H3: Lineup Strengths and Weaknesses

In MLB news, Seager was limited to 123 games and still had 30 home runs and 21 doubles. The Rangers need him to stay healthy and play healthy. Garcia and Semien added 48 more dingers. Overall, Texas hit 197 homers and stole 97 bases. Rangers runners were caught stealing 25 times, which tells you all you need to know about how much Texas needs to learn about taking care on the basepaths.

Higashioka came over from San Diego after one year there. He hit 15 home runs but only .220. Defense has to be his forte. Langford is 23 and had 19 steals in 2024. His future is bright and he could help the Rangers’ speed issues.

Burger struck out 150 times but had 29 home runs with Miami. Would be helpful if he could get the bat on the ball more frequently.

Texas Rangers Projected Starting Rotation

Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Tyler Mahle, Jack Leiter, Kumar Rocker

Scherzer made only nine starts before going down, while deGrom returned late in the season for just two starts after missing most of the year. Jon Gray, a key rotation piece, was limited to 19 starts. All you need to know about Scherzer is that he went out early from his first start as a Blue Jay with lat soreness.

A book could be written on how deGrom would have been a Hall of Famer if he had stayed healthy. However, the righty has not thrown 100 innings since 2019. His pitching record since 2020 is 18-8. That is overall, not in one season. Talk about MLB injuries messing with what would have been legendary stuff.

Eovaldi was a solid 12-8 in 2024. He pitched 170.2 innings and made 29 starts. Bruce Bochy needs that kind of season out of him again. Leiter and Rocker are young with all sorts of promise. They need to stay healthy, which sounds like a broken record when it comes to the Rangers.

Projected Bullpen

Jacob Webb, Chris Martin, Luke Jackson, Shawn Armstrong, Hoby Milner, Robert Garcia, Marc Church, Gerson Garabito

Guess where Kirby Yates and his 33 saves from last year went? The Dodgers, of course. David Robertson was the only other Ranger with multiple saves, and he had two. This is an area of weakness for Texas until it proves itself. Church looked good in camp. Jackson should be a live arm. It isn’t anyone’s guess who MLB teams will face if the Rangers lead in the ninth inning.

Texas Rangers Schedule and Key Matchups

Bochy will find many challenging MLB matchups because of the shakiness of the Rangers’ pitching stable. It is more like the pitching is unstable, to be honest. Of course, that changes if deGrom finds the miracle of being able to stay sound.

The Rangers had red on their minds as the season opened with a series against the Red Sox and Reds. April 15-20 sees a home series with the Angels and Dodgers followed by a trip to the nomad Athletics, Giants, before the Athletics come into Texas.

The bad news in May is the first half a road trip is in New York against the Yankees. The good news is the following series is in Chicago against the White Sox.

A 10-game road swing with San Diego, the Angels and the Astros is a rugged way to earn the refreshing time known as the All-Star break.

The Yankees and Phillies visit for three games each in August, a stretch of home games that end with a series against Arizona.

If the Rangers are able to stay in the mix in September, their key stretch looks like a road trip with visits to the Mets and Astros. Both teams figure to be in the playoff race.

Six games at home against the Marlins and Twins lead to the final series of the regular season against the Guardians in Cleveland.