Raise your hand if you thought Joey Gallo would be hitting .280 through 21 games. Raise your hand if you thought 36-year-old Shin-Soo Choo would keep pace with his stellar age 35 season. Raise your hand if you thought the Texas Rangers would be three games over .500 and a game and a half out of first place at this point.
The most narrow-minded Gallo fans likely raised their hands. Maybe some folks have learned to look beyond Choo’s contract and see him for the uber-productive hitter he can be. Surely a number of people expected the Rangers to teeter around .