The Texas Rangers have played 55 games, which means that they are just past the one-third mark of the season. We also had Memorial Day yesterday, and Memorial Day is kind of the unofficial “its not early in the season anymore” mark. Memorial Day is kind of the general benchmark for “a ways into the season” — when it feels like you can start really paying attention to how players have performed to date.
This makes it a good time, I think, to take a look at how the Rangers have done thusfar this season. I’ve gone to Statcast and pulled wOBA, xwOBA, average exit velocity and average launch angle for the Rangers hitters, along with the data for the team as a whole and MLB as a whole in 2021.