Baseball resumes Friday for the Texas Rangers, who played 97 games in the “first half” of the season and won only 41 of them.
The Rangers won’t be going to the postseason for the second straight season, and the motivating factor for them over the final 65 games might end up being to avoid a 100-loss season.
To do that, they can lose no more than 43 games, and that doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Of course, the trade deadline is approaching, and the team could have a vastly different look July 31. Or maybe not.