The Texas Rangers want to be back in the postseason really bad this season. The franchise has made some additions to the roster, including Danny Jansen, ahead of the 2026 regular season.

While the magic of a 2023 World Series championship still surrounds the Rangers, the past couple of seasons haven’t been too hot.

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Yet Texas isn’t among the worst franchises in baseball. At least, that’s according to a recent story from The Athletic that ranked each MLB franchise.

Now, when preparing this list of all 30 MLB teams, The Athletic’s Stephen J. Nesbitt used a points design to make up the franchise’s placings. This points system, which will be listed below, is based off of a scoring system done for pro football by sportswriter Bob Sturm.

Here’s the points breakdown:

Winning the World Series (WS): 9 points

Losing in the World Series (WSL): 6 points

Losing in the Championship Series (CS): 3 points

Losing in Division Series (DS): 2 points

Losing in Wild Card Round (WC): 1 point

Based on this points breakdown, the Rangers come in the No. 11 spot. They are tied in points with the Los Angeles Angels, but Texas wins the tiebreaker.

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“The Rangers, winning a tiebreaker over the Angels here, improved this offseason by adding Brandon Nimmo, Danny Jansen and Andrew McCutchen to a position player group led by Corey Seager and Wyatt Langford,” Nesbitt wrote.

“They traded for MacKenzie Gore to bolster the rotation,” Nesbitt continued. “Still, returning to true contention will require significant steps forward from their internal options. It’s possible. But this version of the Rangers doesn’t project to be more than a couple games better than last year’s .500 team.”

In the past 25 years, the Rangers reached the World Series in 2010 and 2011, only to come up as losers there. In 2012, Texas reached the American League Wild Card Game. Then, in 2015 and 2016, the Rangers advanced to the AL Division Series. And, of course, Texas won the World Series in 2023.

Seeing Nesbitt predict that the Rangers wouldn’t really get far beyond the .500 mark than a couple of wins over it might discourage the team’s fans.

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With Skip Schumaker taking over as manager, this will be his first season leading Texas in the dugout. He’s going to go through some growing pains, which might make the fan base a little uncomfortable at times.

Yet, with players like Jansen, Nimmo, and McCutchen on board, the Rangers appear to have a veteran presence on the team. That includes all of the Rangers’ leftovers from last season as well.

Oh, who finished in the No. 1 spot on The Athletic’s list of the top MLB franchises? The Los Angeles Dodgers. That’s not really a surprise, is it? The Dodgers knocked off the New York Yankees from their No. 1 perch.

Now, the Rangers will look to improve their positioning in this list during the 2026 MLB season.

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