r/TexasRangers • u/monknabers • 15d ago

[Spiering] Skip Schumaker on the Rangers missing the playoffs: "The reality is we didn't play well enough against under .500 teams. The frustrating part is like not figuring out different ways to help beat the teams that we should have beat."

https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/texas-rangers/rangers-news-skip-schumaker-says-frustrating-part-about-missing-playoffs
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u/ephenssta29 A. Beltre 15d ago

I mean he's not wrong.

But looking at the last 10 years, we're a .462 team with no division wins and one lucky playoff run off our only winning season. This team just isn't competitive. We somehow pulled it all together for one magical season, but outside of that it's been a decade of mediocrity. I know they probably won't make any significant moves in an offseason ahead of what looks like it could be a nasty lockout, but I really wish we'd just fucking blow it up and look to the future instead of clinging to almost-.500 baseball.

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u/bummer28 A. Beltre 15d ago

Help me figure this out because I’m struggling to understand the logic with this.

Everyone complains we don’t draft well and we don’t develop well, yet every thinks blowing it up and starting over drafting and developing guys will somehow be a better option?

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u/ephenssta29 A. Beltre 14d ago

I'm not really sure I have a solution, and I'm not sure I'd say the only way to try resetting the roster is to hope we magically get good at drafting and development. But it's clear this iteration of the roster isn't working, neither is what we've tried for the last decade outside of 2023, which looks increasingly flukey as time goes by. Right now we just seem entirely directionless, and it's massively disappointing.

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u/bummer28 A. Beltre 14d ago

I completely agree it’s not working and I don’t have the solution either. I just see everyone keep saying to blow it up and start over but I don’t see that working. Different doesn’t always mean better.