Grading bold 2025 season predictions – Wyatt Langford
November 17, 2025
Grading bold 2025 season predictions – Wyatt Langford
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>The prediction: Wyatt Langford has a 30/30 season and finishes in the top 10 of the MVP voting.
>This one is interesting. Langford had a 22/22 season in home runs and stolen bases — so didn’t come all that close to 30/30 — and didn’t crack the top 10 in MVP voting, but he did finish with 5.6 WAR, which ranked tied for eighth among American League position players. Part of the high WAR was his outstanding defense, but also that, for whatever reason, Globe Life Field played as an extreme pitcher’s park in 2025, so Langford finished with an excellent 127 OPS+.
>Grade: B-
>Looking ahead to 2026: Langford played 134 games, so if he can get up to 150 and if Globe Life returns to more of a neutral park, 30/30 will be on the radar. If he can cut down on his strikeouts — 16th percentile — then we’ll see even bigger offensive numbers across the board.
IMO, a 30-30 season for Langford is easily doable assuming he’s healthy. Like Schoenfield said, a major part of Wyatt’s struggles this year were the strikeouts. K’d in 26.4% of ABs–not great. Along with a 26.3% whiff rate–not great. He does, however, have a great chase rate of only 23.4% and an elite walk rate of 12.9%. I think we can all agree that his pitch recognition, especially with 2 strikes was nothing to be proud of and at times it quite certainly seemed like he was very passive.
In 2025, Langford swung at pitches inside the zone at a 64% clip.
For comparison, Seager swung at pitches in the zone at a 79.6% clip.
Langford swung at meatballs at a 73.9% clip.
Seager swung at meatballs at an 87.4% clip.
Langford swung at the first pitch 30.1% of the time.
Seager swung at the first pitch 47.4% of the time.
I don’t think this is the problem, though.
I know they’re two separate players with different styles and offensive profiles, but I think they’re kinda similar in that they’re both great all around hitters that aren’t necessariily power hitters yet still have power to all parts of the field.
With 2 strikes in 2024, Langford saw a fastball 342 times and had 32 hits. Good for a .224 BA. Not bad hitting with two strikes.
With 2 strikes in 2025, Langford saw a fastball 382 times and had 18 hits. Good for a .127 BA.
Granted you’re not gonna hit .300 with 2 strikes, a .127 BA versus fastballs is horrendous. 70 strikeouts and 73 batted balls.
Versus offspead and breaking balls he was relatively similar in 2024 and 2025, slightly better in 2024 though.
TLDR: Langford can’t hit for $%@! with two strikes. Especially fastballs.
I’m really hoping to see a long term extension for Wyatt this offseason. A ten year deal with a player opt out after six years would be my hope. Before anyone gets upset at me for saying include an opt out that is basically the norm nowadays. Getting him signed with a guarantee to buy out two free agent years is incredibly important. I’d argue he’s the best player this franchise has drafted at the very least since Kinsler in 2003.
Unless the Rangers revert the changes they’ve made to the stadium since 2023, then I don’t see it happening.
Like a lot of individual pieces of the Rangers offensive season, it felt like he was 1 or 2 missing pieces away from having a really great season.
Hopefully they figure out a few of them in the offseason.
5 comments
>The prediction: Wyatt Langford has a 30/30 season and finishes in the top 10 of the MVP voting.
>This one is interesting. Langford had a 22/22 season in home runs and stolen bases — so didn’t come all that close to 30/30 — and didn’t crack the top 10 in MVP voting, but he did finish with 5.6 WAR, which ranked tied for eighth among American League position players. Part of the high WAR was his outstanding defense, but also that, for whatever reason, Globe Life Field played as an extreme pitcher’s park in 2025, so Langford finished with an excellent 127 OPS+.
>Grade: B-
>Looking ahead to 2026: Langford played 134 games, so if he can get up to 150 and if Globe Life returns to more of a neutral park, 30/30 will be on the radar. If he can cut down on his strikeouts — 16th percentile — then we’ll see even bigger offensive numbers across the board.
IMO, a 30-30 season for Langford is easily doable assuming he’s healthy. Like Schoenfield said, a major part of Wyatt’s struggles this year were the strikeouts. K’d in 26.4% of ABs–not great. Along with a 26.3% whiff rate–not great. He does, however, have a great chase rate of only 23.4% and an elite walk rate of 12.9%. I think we can all agree that his pitch recognition, especially with 2 strikes was nothing to be proud of and at times it quite certainly seemed like he was very passive.
In 2025, Langford swung at pitches inside the zone at a 64% clip.
For comparison, Seager swung at pitches in the zone at a 79.6% clip.
Langford swung at meatballs at a 73.9% clip.
Seager swung at meatballs at an 87.4% clip.
Langford swung at the first pitch 30.1% of the time.
Seager swung at the first pitch 47.4% of the time.
I don’t think this is the problem, though.
I know they’re two separate players with different styles and offensive profiles, but I think they’re kinda similar in that they’re both great all around hitters that aren’t necessariily power hitters yet still have power to all parts of the field.
With 2 strikes in 2024, Langford saw a fastball 342 times and had 32 hits. Good for a .224 BA. Not bad hitting with two strikes.
With 2 strikes in 2025, Langford saw a fastball 382 times and had 18 hits. Good for a .127 BA.
Granted you’re not gonna hit .300 with 2 strikes, a .127 BA versus fastballs is horrendous. 70 strikeouts and 73 batted balls.
Versus offspead and breaking balls he was relatively similar in 2024 and 2025, slightly better in 2024 though.
TLDR: Langford can’t hit for $%@! with two strikes. Especially fastballs.
I’m really hoping to see a long term extension for Wyatt this offseason. A ten year deal with a player opt out after six years would be my hope. Before anyone gets upset at me for saying include an opt out that is basically the norm nowadays. Getting him signed with a guarantee to buy out two free agent years is incredibly important. I’d argue he’s the best player this franchise has drafted at the very least since Kinsler in 2003.
Unless the Rangers revert the changes they’ve made to the stadium since 2023, then I don’t see it happening.
Like a lot of individual pieces of the Rangers offensive season, it felt like he was 1 or 2 missing pieces away from having a really great season.
Hopefully they figure out a few of them in the offseason.