- March 30, 2010
- Texas Rangers
2010 Season Preview and Predictions
The Texas Rangers are coming off of their second consecutive season of finishing second in the AL West and were active in the off-season to get the personnel to move up a spot in the division standings. Fourth-year Ranger pitcher Kevin Millwood was traded away for Vladimir Guerrero and spare parts and they brought in Rich Harden to replace Millwood. Harden lacks the experience of Millwood, but he has tremendous potential.
The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in Texas, representing the Dallas-Ft.Worth metropolitan area. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1994 to the present, the Rangers have played in Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, located in Arlington, Texas. The "Rangers" name originates from the famous law enforcement agency by the same name.
An expansion franchise, the club was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1961 and was called the Washington Senators (not to be confused with the Washington Senators team that exited D.C. after 1960 to become the Minnesota Twins). The team then moved to Arlington in 1972 and became the Rangers.
The Rangers are one of three Major League franchises to have never played in a World Series, along with the Seattle Mariners (established in 1977) and the Washington Nationals (established in 1969 as the Montreal Expos). The Senators/Rangers franchise is the oldest team in any of the major North American professional leagues that has never won a league championship, although the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants won their most recent respective World Series prior to the Senators/Rangers franchise joining the league.