The rangers have been playing around .600 ball since there 6-17 start, impressive by any measure. However, they will have to play a .660 ball in the second half to catch the Angels. Now I like this team offensively but I don’t think our pitching allows us to make up 7.5 games. I say trade some pieces for prospects (Guardado, Wright, Catt, Byrd) let the core of the team and our “now” prospects continue to make noise. I think our post-deadline take will be the return of all of our injured pitchers ( McCarthy, Rheinecker, Mathis, Murray, Gabbard, Benoit, Hurley, Padilla). If they can’t return to good health 8/1 to help us make a run, then you just chalk it up to misfortune that cannot be overcome until next year. I’m cool with that as I really like watching this team play despite its flaws. I think that they can win next year with the right trades that address the top of the rotation.

Our fielding just makes your head spin but doesn’t seem to have as much effect on W-L as you think it would.
Its seems that the pitching consists of more good (decent?) performances and then big blowups on other occasions than in other years. Sort of a consistency thing. The two W’s in this series were well pitched, tightly played games while losing the bombardment games. That is very much unlike the past.