4 Rangers players that deserve 2025 All-Star consideration if they stay on track

The 2025 All-Star Game is still months away and voting usually doesn't even start until a month prior to the game itself. Therefore we might be a bit too early with this but it never hurts to acknowledge player success.

The Rangers have been iffy, although still a couple of games over .500, closing in on 30 games. The offense is the worst in the league in terms of run production and the starting pitching is one of the best in the league at limiting run production. Which is a complete 180 from the 2023 World Series year but makes complete sense of why Texas is still only one game back of first in the AL West right now.

Despite all that, the Rangers have several options to be considered All-Stars this year, some even for the first time. Let's run through four of those options.

These 4 Texas Rangers players deserve All-Star Game consideration

Wyatt Langford

This is obvious. It would take a colossal struggle to justify not including Langford on the AL All-Star team this summer in Atlanta.

In 19 games this year, Langford is slashing .299/.375/.597 with a .972 OPS and since September 1, 2024, he's been one of the best hitters in the entire league. The former first round pick two years ago is one of the best young athletes in baseball and is showing it on the field, despite the offensive struggles as a team.

The way he's been performing in the first full month of the year, he 100% deserves the All-Star nod for the first time in his young career.

Jack Leiter

Leiter is one of the bigger "if he stays on track" options among the four candidates here due to the uncertainty of whether he can keep performing at a high-level with little experience.

In his first two starts of the year he was virtually untouchable, but Sunday's game agains the Giants he showed some weakness. However, it's important to note that it was Leiter's first big league start since April 2 before going on the injured list, so the struggles Sunday make sense.

But in 13 1/3 innings this year, Leiter has a 2.03 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 13 strikeouts, 5 walks and hitters are only hitting .170 against the 25-year-old right-hander. He won't maintain a sub-3.00 ERA by July but if he remains around that mark, it would all come down to the spots left to fill on the roster.

Tyler Mahle

Who could have guessed that Tyler Mahle would be the ace of the 2025 Texas Rangers?

Mahle has been off to one of the best starts in Major League Baseball with the second best ERA in the league (1.14) and a WHIP below 1.00 (0.98). It's not really that small of sample size either compared to other pitchers, with 31 2/3 innings of work in 5 starts.

What is most surprising about his dominance is the low fastball velocity, averaging only 92 mph and it has held batters to a .143 average against. There's zero chance he could be left off the AL All-Star team if he found himself keeping those numbers come mid-July.

Josh Smith

Smith should have been an All-Star last season after a breakout season where he set career highs in virtually every offensive cateogry and won the American League Utility Silver Slugger.

And just like Langford, Smith seems to be one of the few hitters that can actually hit to start the season. He's already played seven different defensive positions and Gold Glove caliber levels, but he's also hitting .303 and scored 13 runs with a .825 OPS.

I was skeptical that Smith would be able to come out this year and keep on the level of production he showed last season but his first 25 games and been proof that I think he's for real now. If he continues down this path and doesn't make the team, it would be an even bigger snub then his last season.