2020 Texas Rangers season

2020  Texas Rangers
League	American League
Division	West
Ballpark	Globe Life Field
City	Arlington
Record	22–38 (.367)
Divisional place	5th
Owners	Ray Davis & Bob R. Simpson
Managers	Chris Woodward
Television	Fox Sports Southwest (Dave Raymond, C.J. Nitkowski, Tom Grieve)
Radio	KRLD 105.3 FM (English) (Eric Nadel, Matt Hicks, Dave Raymond) KZMP 1540 AM (Spanish) (Eleno Orlenas, Jerry Romo)
Stats	ESPN.com Baseball Reference
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The 2020 Texas Rangers season was the 60th of the Texas Rangers franchise overall, their 49th in Arlington as the Rangers, and the inaugural season at the newly constructed Globe Life Field.

On March 12, 2020, MLB announced that because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the regular season would be delayed by at least two weeks in addition to the remainder of spring training being cancelled. ^[1] Four days later, it was announced that the start of the season would be pushed back indefinitely due to the recommendation made by the CDC to restrict events of more than 50 people for eight weeks. ^[2] On June 23, commissioner Rob Manfred unilaterally implemented a 60-game season. Players reported to training camps on July 1 in order to resume spring training and prepare for a July 24 Opening Day. ^[3]

Spring training

Texas Ranger pitchers and catchers reported on February 11, 2020, to spring training in Surprise, Arizona, United States.

Regular season

Season standings

American League West

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AL West

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Oakland Athletics	36	24	.600	—	22‍–‍10	14‍–‍14
Houston Astros	29	31	.483	7	20‍–‍9	9‍–‍22
Seattle Mariners	27	33	.450	9	14‍–‍10	13‍–‍23
Los Angeles Angels	26	34	.433	10	16‍–‍15	10‍–‍19
Texas Rangers	22	38	.367	14	16‍–‍14	6‍–‍24

American League Wild Card

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Division Leaders

Team	W	L	Pct.
Tampa Bay Rays	40	20	.667
Oakland Athletics	36	24	.600
Minnesota Twins	36	24	.600

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Division 2nd Place

Team	W	L	Pct.
Cleveland Indians	35	25	.583
New York Yankees	33	27	.550
Houston Astros	29	31	.483

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Wild Card teams
(Top 2 teams qualify for postseason)

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Chicago White Sox	35	25	.583	+3
Toronto Blue Jays	32	28	.533	—
Seattle Mariners	27	33	.450	5
Los Angeles Angels	26	34	.433	6
Kansas City Royals	26	34	.433	6
Baltimore Orioles	25	35	.417	7
Boston Red Sox	24	36	.400	8
Detroit Tigers	23	35	.397	8
Texas Rangers	22	38	.367	10

Record against opponents

2020 American League record v t e Source: MLB Standings Grid – 2020
Team	HOU	LAA	OAK	SEA	TEX	NL
Houston	—	4–6	3–7	7–3	5–5	10–10
Los Angeles	6–4	—	4–6	5–5	4–6	7–13
Oakland	7–3	6–4	—	6–4	7–3	10–10
Seattle	3–7	5–5	4–6	—	8–2	7–13
Texas	5–5	6–4	3–7	2–8	—	6–14

Roster

2020 Texas Rangers
Roster
Pitchers 39 Kolby Allard 75 Wes Benjamin 30 Jesse Chavez 73 Kyle Cody 67 Demarcus Evans 60 Luke Farrell 45 Luis García 63 Ian Gibaut 44 Kyle Gibson 41 Nick Goody 52 Taylor Hearn 64 Jimmy Herget 72 Jonathan Hernández 79 John King 28 Corey Kluber 25 José Leclerc 35 Lance Lynn 24 Jordan Lyles 59 Brett Martin 23 Mike Minor 48 Rafael Montero 40 Juan Nicasio 62 Joe Palumbo 57 Joely Rodríguez 36 Edinson Vólquez		Catchers 61 Robinson Chirinos 74 Sam Huff  2 Jeff Mathis 56 Jose Trevino Infielders  1 Elvis Andrus 82 Sherten Apostel 32 Derek Dietrich 21 Todd Frazier 11 Ronald Guzmán  9 Isiah Kiner-Falefa 12 Rougned Odor 14 Rob Refsnyder 33 Yadiel Rivera  6 Andrew Romine 38 Danny Santana 71 Anderson Tejeda		Outfielders  5 Willie Calhoun 17 Shin-Soo Choo 13 Joey Gallo 53 Adolis García 16 Scott Heineman 15 Nick Solak 65 Leody Taveras 76 Eli White		Manager  8 Chris Woodward Coaches 27 Tony Beasley (third base) 99 Callix Crabbe (assistant hitting) 66 Josh Frasier (bullpen catcher) 64 Doug Mathis (bullpen)  4 Héctor Ortiz (catching coordinator) 18 Luis Ortiz (hitting) 43 Corey Ragsdale (first base) 47 Julio Rangel (pitching) 22 Don Wakamatsu (bench)

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; BB = Walks; AVG = Batting average; SLG = Slugging average

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	AVG	SLG
Isiah Kiner-Falefa	58	211	28	59	4	3	3	10	8	14	.280	.370
Nick Solak	58	209	27	56	10	0	2	23	7	18	.268	.344
Joey Gallo	57	193	23	35	8	0	10	26	2	29	.181	.378
Rougned Odor	38	138	15	23	4	0	10	30	0	7	.167	.413
Leody Taveras	33	119	20	27	6	1	4	6	8	14	.227	.395
Shin-Soo Choo	33	110	13	26	3	0	5	15	6	13	.236	.400
Todd Frazier	31	108	11	26	7	1	2	7	1	10	.241	.380
Elvis Andrus	29	103	11	20	5	0	3	7	3	8	.194	.330
Willie Calhoun	29	100	3	19	2	1	1	13	0	5	.190	.260
Ronald Guzmán	26	78	10	19	1	1	4	9	1	7	.244	.436
Jose Trevino	24	76	10	19	8	0	2	9	0	3	.250	.434
Anderson Tejeda	23	75	7	19	4	1	3	8	4	2	.253	.453
Jeff Mathis	24	62	6	10	1	1	3	9	1	5	.161	.355
Derek Dietrich	25	61	9	12	1	0	5	8	1	9	.197	.459
Danny Santana	15	55	6	8	4	0	1	7	2	7	.145	.273
Scott Heineman	24	52	6	8	3	0	1	7	3	2	.154	.269
Robinson Chirinos	14	42	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	5	.119	.143
Sam Huff	10	31	5	11	3	0	3	4	0	2	.355	.742
Rob Refsnyder	15	30	4	6	1	0	0	1	0	2	.200	.233
Sherten Apostel	7	20	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.100	.150
Adolis García	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000
Yadiel Rivera	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Andrew Romine	2	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.500
Team Totals	60	1936	224	420	80	9	62	204	49	167	.217	.364

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Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Lance Lynn	6	3	3.32	13	13	0	84.0	64	34	31	25	89
Kyle Gibson	2	6	5.35	12	12	0	67.1	73	44	40	30	58
Jordan Lyles	1	6	7.02	12	9	0	57.2	67	49	45	23	36
Mike Minor	0	5	5.60	7	7	0	35.1	35	23	22	13	35
Kolby Allard	0	6	7.75	11	8	0	33.2	31	29	29	20	32
Jonathan Hernández	5	1	2.90	27	0	0	31.0	24	10	10	8	31
Kyle Cody	1	1	1.59	8	5	0	22.2	15	5	4	13	18
Wes Benjamin	2	1	4.84	8	1	0	22.1	24	12	12	7	21
Jimmy Herget	1	0	3.20	20	1	0	19.2	13	7	7	14	17
Rafael Montero	0	1	4.08	17	0	8	17.2	12	11	8	6	19
Taylor Hearn	0	0	3.63	14	0	0	17.1	13	8	7	11	23
Jesse Chavez	0	0	6.88	18	0	0	17.0	20	13	13	7	13
Brett Martin	1	1	1.84	15	0	0	14.2	8	5	3	9	8
Joely Rodríguez	0	0	2.13	12	0	0	12.2	8	3	3	5	17
Ian Gibaut	0	1	6.57	14	0	0	12.1	11	10	9	9	14
Nick Goody	0	2	9.00	17	1	1	11.0	14	12	11	8	13
John King	1	0	6.10	6	0	0	10.1	13	8	7	4	9
Luis García	0	2	7.56	11	2	0	8.1	10	9	7	9	11
Edinson Vólquez	2	1	6.35	7	0	0	5.2	6	4	4	2	3
Luke Farrell	0	0	8.44	4	0	0	5.1	5	5	5	5	8
Demarcus Evans	0	0	2.25	4	0	0	4.0	3	1	1	0	4
Joe Palumbo	0	1	11.57	2	0	0	2.1	3	3	3	3	5
José Leclerc	0	0	4.50	2	0	1	2.0	2	1	1	2	3
Juan Nicasio	0	0	40.50	2	0	0	1.1	5	6	6	2	1
Corey Kluber	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	1
Team Totals	22	38	5.02	60	60	10	516.2	479	312	288	236	489

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Game log

2020 Game Log 22–38 (Home: 16–14; Away: 6–24)
July: 2–4 (Home: 2–3; Away: 0–1) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Record Streak 1 July 24 Rockies 1–0 Lynn (1–0) Márquez (0–1) Leclerc (1) 1–0 W1 2 July 25 Rockies 2–3 Bard (1–0) Minor (0–1) Davis (1) 1–1 L1 3 July 26 Rockies 2–5 Freeland (1–0) Palumbo (0–1) Davis (2) 1–2 L2 4 July 28 Diamondbacks 1–4 Kelly (1–0) Gibson (0–1) Bradley (1) 1–3 L3 5 July 29 Diamondbacks 7–4 Hernández (1–0) Chafin (0–1) Goody (1) 2–3 W1 6 July 31 @ Giants 2–9 Menez (1–0) Minor (0–2) — 2–4 L1
August: 10–17 (Home: 7–7; Away: 3–10) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Record Streak 7 August 1 @ Giants 3–7 Baragar (2–0) Lyles (0–1) — 2–5 L2 8 August 2 @ Giants 9–5 Hernández (2–0) Triggs (0–1) — 3–5 W1 9 August 4 @ Athletics 1–5 Hendriks (1–0) Vólquez (0–1) — 3–6 L1 10 August 5 @ Athletics 4–6 McFarland (1–0) Gibaut (0–1) Soria (2) 3–7 L2 11 August 6 @ Athletics 4–6 Fiers (1–0) Minor (0–3) Hendriks (4) 3–8 L3 12 August 7 Angels 4–3 Lyles (1–1) Canning (0–2) Montero (1) 4–8 W1 13 August 8 Angels 2–0 Vólquez (1–1) Sandoval (0–1) Montero (2) 5–8 W2 14 August 9 Angels 7–3 Lynn (2–0) Heaney (1–1) — 6–8 W3 15 August 10 Mariners 2–10 Dunn (1–1) Gibson (0–2) — 6–9 L1 16 August 11 Mariners 4–2 Vólquez (2–1) Gonzales (2–2) Montero (3) 7–9 W1 17 August 12 Mariners 7–4 Hernández (3–0) Swanson (0–1) Montero (4) 8–9 W2 18 August 14 @ Rockies 3–2 Lynn (3–0) Bard (1–1) — 9–9 W3 19 August 15 @ Rockies 6–4 Gibson (1–2) Márquez (2–3) Montero (5) 10–9 W4 20 August 16 @ Rockies 6–10 Gray (1–2) Allard (0–1) Estévez (1) 10–10 L1 21 August 17 Padres 4–14 Davies (3–2) Lyles (1–2) — 10–11 L2 22 August 18 Padres 4–6 Stammen (2–1) Minor (0–4) Quantrill (1) 10–12 L3 23 August 19 @ Padres 3–6 (10) Hill (1–0) Montero (0–1) — 10–13 L4 24 August 20 @ Padres 7–8 (10) Johnson (2–1) García (0–1) — 10–14 L5 25 August 21 @ Mariners 4–7 Margevicius (1–1) Allard (0–2) Williams (5) 10–15 L6 26 August 22 @ Mariners 1–10 Sheffield (2–2) Lyles (1–3) — 10–16 L7 27 August 23 @ Mariners 1–4 Dunn (2–1) Minor (0–5) Williams (6) 10–17 L8 28 August 24 Athletics 3–2 Lynn (4–0) Luzardo (2–1) Montero (6) 11–17 W1 29 August 25 Athletics 3–10 Manaea (2–2) Gibson (1–3) — 11–18 L1 30 August 26 Athletics 1–3 Fiers (4–1) Allard (0–3) Hendriks (10) 11–19 L2 — August 27 Athletics Postponed (Strikes due to shooting of Jacob Blake); Makeup: September 12 31 August 28 Dodgers 6–2 Hernández (4–0) McGee (2–1) — 12–19 W1 32 August 29 Dodgers 4–7 Treinen (3–1) Lynn (4–1) Jansen (9) 12–20 L1 33 August 30 Dodgers 2–7 Alexander (2–0) Gibson (1–4) — 12–21 L2
September: 10–17 (Home: 7–4; Away: 3–13) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Record Streak 34 September 1 @ Astros 6–5 (10) Hernández (5–0) Taylor (1–1) Montero (7) 13–21 W1 35 September 2 @ Astros 1–2 Javier (4–1) Allard (0–4) Pressly (7) 13–22 L1 36 September 3 @ Astros 4–8 Greinke (3–0) Lynn (4–2) — 13–23 L2 37 September 4 @ Mariners 3–6 Kikuchi (2–2) Cody (0–1) — 13–24 L3 38 September 5 @ Mariners 3–5 Gerber (1–0) Hernández (5–1) Ramírez (2) 13–25 L4 39 September 6 @ Mariners 3–4 Dunn (3–1) Lyles (1–4) Hirano (1) 13–26 L5 40 September 7 @ Mariners 4–8 Gonzales (5–2) Allard (0–5) Ramírez (3) 13–27 L6 41 September 8 Angels 7–1 Lynn (5–2) Heaney (3–3) — 14–27 W1 42 September 9 Angels 7–3 King (1–0) Teherán (0–3) — 15–27 W2 43 September 10 Angels 2–6 Bundy (5–2) Gibson (1–5) — 15–28 L1 44 September 11 Athletics 6–10 Fiers (5–2) García (0–2) — 15–29 L2 45 September 12 (1) Athletics 5–2 (7) Benjamin (1–0) Jefferies (0–1) Montero (8) 16–29 W1 46 September 12 (2) Athletics 1–10 (7) Bassitt (4–2) Allard (0–6) — 16–30 L1 47 September 13 Athletics 6–3 Lynn (6–2) Montas (3–4) — 17–30 W1 48 September 15 @ Astros 1–4 Urquidy (1–1) Goody (0–1) Pressly (10) 17–31 L1 49 September 16 @ Astros 1–0 Gibson (2–5) Pressly (1–3) — 18–31 W1 50 September 17 @ Astros 1–2 Valdez (4–3) Lyles (1–5) Raley (1) 18–32 L1 51 September 18 @ Angels 2–6 Barría (1–0) Benjamin (1–1) — 18–33 L2 52 September 19 @ Angels 3–4 Mayers (2–0) Martin (0–1) — 18–34 L3 53 September 20 @ Angels 7–2 Cody (1–1) Teherán (0–4) — 19–34 W1 54 September 21 @ Angels 5–8 Bundy (6–3) Gibson (2–6) Mayers (1) 19–35 L1 55 September 22 @ Diamondbacks 0–7 Smith (2–0) Lyles (1–6) — 19–36 L2 56 September 23 @ Diamondbacks 3–7 Mella (2–0) Goody (0–2) — 19–37 L3 57 September 24 Astros 4–12 Javier (5–2) Lynn (6–3) — 19–38 L4 58 September 25 Astros 5–4 (10) Martin (1–1) Paredes (3–3) — 20–38 W1 59 September 26 Astros 6–1 Herget (1–0) Bielak (3–3) — 21–38 W2 60 September 27 Astros 8–4 Benjamin (2–1) De Jong (0–1) — 22–38 W3
Legend:       = Win       = Loss       = Postponement Bold = Rangers team member

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Nashville Sounds	Pacific Coast League
AA	Frisco RoughRiders	Texas League
A-Advanced	Down East Wood Ducks	Carolina League
A	Hickory Crawdads	South Atlantic League
A-Short Season	Spokane Indians	Northwest League
Rookie	AZL Rangers	Arizona League
Rookie	DSL Rangers	Dominican Summer League

References

1. Mark Feinsand (March 12, 2020). "Opening Day delayed at least 2 weeks; Spring Training games cancelled". MLB.com. Major League Baseball. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
2. "Opening of regular season to be pushed back". MLB.com. Major League Baseball. March 16, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
3. Feinsand, Mark (June 24, 2020). "Play Ball: MLB announces 2020 regular season". MLB.com. Retrieved June 24, 2020.

External links

• 2020 Texas Rangers season at Baseball-Reference.com
• 2020 Texas Rangers fullseason schedule and
• Statistics Archived August 26, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at MLB.com