Rangers' Offense Continues to Struggle
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: The All Star break has come and gone and the Rangers will trail the A's by 3 or 4 games in the division (depending on whether the A's beat the Halos in a late game) going into the weekend.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: The Rangers are only 3 or 4 games back! Are you kidding me? Had you told me that the Rangers would...
1. be without Colby Lewis all season to this point
2. have Pierzynski, Berkman, Ogando and Yu spend time on the DL
3. have Murph and Elvis batting under .250
4. have an offense that just generally looks mediocre at best
5. and have Kins continue to look like he's trying to figure out what this base running thing is all about...
...I would have expected the Rangers to be behind in the division by double digits at this point.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: The Rangers play the A's plenty of times the rest of the way. And I really think Elvis and Murph will bat better down the stretch. And now they've added Matt Garza to the starting rotation (and he looked pretty good in first start in a Rangers' uniform), so yeah, I'm still pretty excited to watch this thing.