The Texas Rangers suffered a tough 7-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs, continuing their struggles at the plate. Despite hitting the ball hard, they couldn’t turn those hits into runs, with the team’s low batting average and on-base percentage ranking them near the bottom of MLB. In this breakdown, RJ & Bobby discussed the Rangers' offensive woes, highlighted some positive signs, and explored what they needed to improve moving forward. Could the offense turn things around, or were bigger issues at play?
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00:00let's uh let's go through the rankings across major league baseball chop would you like to do
00:20that sure go ahead uh all right batting average out of 30 teams where do the rangers rank
00:25uh at best 28th at worst 30th 30th oh that's good what do you think their batting average is
00:32174 184 they're better than you thought well uh on base percentage where do they rank
00:38uh 29th they rank 30th oh is that good nope uh what do you think they're on base percentages
00:45uh 215 257 slugging uh 29th 26th up a little bit 323 okay on that one their team ops is 570
01:00their team ops is uh yeah it's 570 uh in fact let me look here uh it's uh it's actually 580 so they are
01:08third worst in baseball in ops and just uh just behind them it's the houston astros at 29
01:15and it is the bottom of the barrel atlanta braves at 30th hey the braves won a game though
01:21they did but you look you look at that houston below 500 right now atlanta way below 500 right
01:27now that's generally what you're going to see with a team that hits like that wow yeah that's true
01:32that's true they had not hit the ball well they have not you know they've they've hit them hard
01:37at times but they have not hit the ball well at all look i mean there's there are a lot of things
01:45here that are are positive for the rangers offensively or positive indicators that say
01:52they're likely gonna be able to turn some things around so when you look at strikeout rate
01:57on offense the amount like they're making contact strikeout rate they're one of the lowest
02:01like their rate of striking out is one of the lowest in major league baseball
02:05so they're making contact they're showing decent plate patience and and at a lot of different
02:12points they have been able to run into some baseballs white langford's got a few home runs so
02:16far we've seen the power you know with the way adolis is swinging the bat heim has a couple home runs
02:21so there's some positive indicators
02:23so
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