Of course, the Texas Rangers don’t want to stand pat entering the 2026 MLB season. That’s one reason why the ballclub moved Skip Schumaker out of the front office and into the dugout once again.

Texas hasn’t made the postseason in the past two seasons, results that don’t sit well with a Rangers fan base that wanted to see more out of the team. The Rangers won the World Series in 2023 with some players having magical seasons.

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Yet the past two seasons have been so-so, not really looking good in the overall scheme of things. That might have been because former Rangers manager Bruce Bochy lost the clubhouse. Another factor might be if Rangers players were simply paying more attention to themselves, as a former Rangers pitcher recently alluded to on a podcast.

Then, there’s the Corey Seager-Marcus Semien drama that’s been reported about recently.

With all that said, where do the Rangers rank right now among all 30 MLB clubs this offseason? Chad Jennings of The Athletic has come out with his “MLB offseason tiers.” These “tiers” include “Aggressively adding” to “Shake it up” and “Half-measures.”

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Jennings put the Rangers in the “Shaking it up” category.

“Hard to say the Rangers are definitely better, but they’re certainly different,” Jennings wrote. “They let Jonah Heim and Adolis García go, then swapped second baseman Marcus Semien for left fielder Brandon Nimmo.

“A new leadoff hitter (Nimmo), catcher (Danny Jansen) and a few middle-inning relievers (Alexis Díaz, Tyler Alexander, Chris Martin) don’t make for a massively exciting offseason, but the Rangers clearly are creating a different look after missing the playoffs two years in a row,” Jennings wrote.

Getting the Rangers over the hump of mediocrity is on the mind of Schumaker and, of course, Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young.

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There’s no way that they want to see Texas fall short of the postseason for a third straight season.

In some early press interactions, Schumaker has made it clear that getting the players in the right mindset this season is on the forefront of his thoughts.

Schumaker had a front-row seat last season, observing what worked and what didn’t out on the diamond at Globe Life Field.

Rangers fans are eager to see their team battle the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros for dominance in the American League West Division. But will “shaking it up” end up shaking things up in the win column? The Rangers sure hope so.

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But time will tell, and it’s just a few weeks away from Spring Training.