2001 Texas Rangers season

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2001  Texas Rangers
League American League
Division West
Ballpark The Ballpark in Arlington
City Arlington, Texas
Record73–89 (.451)
Divisional place4th
Owners Tom Hicks
General managers Doug Melvin
Managers Johnny Oates, Jerry Narron
Television KDFW
KDFI
(Tom Grieve, Bill Jones)
Radio KRLD
(Eric Nadel, Vince Cotroneo)
KESS-FM
(Eleno Ornelas, Edgar Lopez)
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The Texas Rangers 2001 season involved the Rangers finishing fourth in the American League West with a record of 73 wins and 89 losses. Despite the team's batting leading the league in home runs and finishing second in on-base percentage and OPS, the team's pitching was historically poor; the team combined for an ERA of 5.71 (a franchise-worst mark), and led the league in hits allowed, earned runs surrendered, and total runs surrendered. Their 913 earned runs allowed would also be a franchise-worst, and out of all pitchers that recorded at least 75 innings, none had an ERA below 4.45.

Contents

Offseason

Regular season

Opening Day Starters

Season Summary

Season standings

AL West 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Seattle Mariners 116460.716—57–2459–22
Oakland Athletics 102600.6301453–2849–32
Anaheim Angels 75870.4634139–4236–45
Texas Rangers 73890.4514341–4132–48

Record vs. opponents

2001 American League record

Sources:
TeamANABALBOSCWSCLEDETKCMINNYYOAKSEATBTEXTORNL 
Anaheim —4–54–36–35–45–45–43–64–36–144–157–27–125–410–8
Baltimore 5–4—9–103–41–54–25–23–35–132–71–810–92–77–126–12
Boston 3–410–9—3–33–64–53–33–35–134–53–614–55–212–710–8
Chicago 3–64–33–3—10–913–614–55–141–51–82–75–27–23–312–6
Cleveland 4–55–16–39–10—13–611–814–54–54–32–55–15–42–47–11
Detroit 4–52–45–46–136–13—8–114–154–51–62–54–28–12–410–8
Kansas City 4–52–53–35–148–1111–8—6–130–63–63–64–24–54–38–10
Minnesota 6–33–33–314–55–1415–413–6—4–25–41–81–64–52–59–9
New York 3–413–513–55–15–45–46–02–4—3–63–613–63–411–810–8
Oakland 14–67–25–48–13–46–16–34–56–3—9–107–29–106–312–6
Seattle 15–48–16–37–25–25–26–38–16–310–9—7–215–56–312–6
Tampa Bay 2–79–105–142–51–52–42–46–16–132–72–7—4–59–1010–8
Texas 12–77–22–52–74–51–85–45–44–310–95–155–4—3–68–10
Toronto 4–512–77–123–34–24–23–45–28–113–63–610–96–3—8–10

Transactions

Roster

2001 Texas Rangers
Roster
PitchersCatchers

Infielders

OutfieldersManager

Coaches

Alex Rodriguez

Alex Rodriguez's power hitting numbers improved with his move to Texas. In his first season with the Rangers, Alex produced one of the top offensive seasons ever for a shortstop, leading the American League with 52 HR, 133 runs scored, and 393 total bases. He became the first player since 1932 with 50 homers and 200 hits in a season, just the third shortstop to ever lead his league in homers, and was just the second AL player in the last 34 seasons (beginning 1968) to lead the league in runs, homers, and total bases; his total base figure is the most ever for a major league shortstop. His 52 homers made him the sixth youngest to ever reach 50 homers and were the highest total ever by a shortstop, surpassing Ernie Banks' mark of 47 in 1958, and also the most ever for an infielder other than a first baseman, breaking Phillies 3B Mike Schmidt's record of 48 in 1980. [8]

It was his 5th 30-homer campaign, tying Banks for most ever by a shortstop. He also tied for the league lead in extra base hits (87) and ranked 3rd in RBI (135) and slugging (.622). He was also among the AL leaders in hits (4th, 201), average (7th, .318), and on-base percentage (8th, .399). He established Rangers club records for homers, runs, total bases, and hit by pitches, had the 2nd most extra base hits, and the 4th highest RBI total. He led the club in runs, hits, doubles (34), homers, RBI, slugging, and on-base percentage and was 2nd in walks (75), stolen bases (18), and game-winning RBI (14) while posting career highs for homers, RBI, and total bases. Rodriguez started 161 games at shortstop and one as the DH, the only major league player to start all of his team's games in 2001.

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
C Iván Rodríguez 111442136.3082565
1B Rafael Palmeiro 160600164.27347123
2B Michael Young 10138696.2491149
SS Alex Rodriguez 162632201.31852135
3B Mike Lamb 7628487.306435
LF Frank Catalanotto 133463153.3301154
CF Gabe Kapler 134483129.2671772
RF Ricky Ledée 7824256.231236
DH Rubén Sierra 94344100.2912367

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
Randy Velarde 7829688.297931
Rusty Greer 6224567.273729
Andrés Galarraga 7224357.2351034
Ken Caminiti 5418543.232925
Bill Haselman 4713037.285325
Rubén Mateo 4012932.248113
Scott Sheldon 6112024.200311
Chad Curtis 3811529.252310
Bo Porter 488720.23016
Carlos Peña 226216.258312
Craig Monroe 275211.21225
Doug Mirabelli 23495.10223
Chris Magruder 17295.17201
Marcus Jensen 11254.16002
Mike Hubbard 5113.27311
Cliff Brumbaugh 7100.00000
Kelly Dransfeldt 430.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Rick Helling 34215.212115.17154
Doug Davis 30186.011104.45115
Darren Oliver 28154.011116.02104
Kenny Rogers 20120.2576.1974
Rob Bell 18105.1557.1864
Aaron Myette 1980.2457.1467
Joaquin Benoit 15.00010.804

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Ryan Glynn 1246.0157.0415
Justin Duchscherer 514.21112.2711
Mike Judd 49.0018.005

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

PlayerGWLSVERASO
Jeff Zimmerman 6644282.4072
Mike Venafro 705544.8029
Pat Mahomes 567605.7061
Mark Petkovsek 551206.6942
Juan Moreno 453303.9236
Tim Crabtree 210546.5616
Jeff Brantley 180105.1411
Danny Kolb 170004.7015
J.D. Smart 151206.4610
Chris Michalak 112213.3210
Kevin Foster 90106.6216
Brandon Villafuerte 600014.294
Jonathan Johnson 50009.5811
R.A. Dickey 40106.754
Francisco Cordero 30103.861

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

LevelTeamLeagueManager
AAA Oklahoma RedHawks Pacific Coast League DeMarlo Hale
AA Tulsa Drillers Texas League Paul Carey
A Charlotte Rangers Florida State League Darryl Kennedy
A Savannah Sand Gnats South Atlantic League Bill Slack and Pedro López
Rookie Pulaski Rangers Appalachian League Bruce Crabbe
Rookie GCL Rangers Gulf Coast League Carlos Subero

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References

  1. ↑ "Aaron Harang Stats".
  2. 1 2 "Ken Caminiti Stats".
  3. ↑ "Box Score of Game played on Friday, June 8, 2001 at the Ballpark in Arlington".
  4. ↑ "Mark Teixeira Stats".
  5. ↑ "Justin Duchscherer Stats".
  6. ↑ "Andres Galarraga Stats".
  7. ↑ "Randy Velarde Stats".
  8. ↑ "Single-Season Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball Reference. Archived from the original on June 20, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
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