5 most memorable moments of the Texas Rangers 2025 season

An 81-81 season for the Texas Rangers might constitute an unsuccessful year but that doesn't mean the 2025 Rangers were without any excitement over the eight months of the regular season.

From Opening Day to Game 162, the Rangers had plenty of storylines that fans can look back as a positive and smile from the memories.

While a lot of conversation surrounds who will be the next Rangers' manager, which underperforming veteran will get traded, or does the Corey Seager-Marcus Semien duo still work. Let's take a moment and look at the positives.

5 most memorable moments of the Texas Rangers 2025 season

Fully healthy season from Jacob deGrom

A lot of talk surrounded whether or not deGrom will ever get a chance to see a full season on the mound ever again after years of sidelining injuries. The Rangers had a lot of faith and so did the 35-year-old former Cy Young winner.

He did exactly that by finishing the season with 30 starts, capping the amazing comeback year with a 12-8 record, 2.97 ERA 185 strikeouts, 37 walks, .196 opponent batting average and the league's second best WHIP (0.92) in 172.2 innings. He is just the fourth qualified Rangers' pitcher to record a sub-3.00 ERA since 2000 and the first-ever in club history to record a sub-1.00 WHIP.

16-5 stretch from mid-August to early September

For 21 games late in the year, the Rangers were among the best teams in Major League Baseball and their dominate 16-5 run once narrowed their 8 game division gap to just two games with two weeks left to play.

As a team, Texas went from 63-66 entering August 22 series against the eventual AL Central champion Cleveland Guardians and ended that stretch by taking two of three over the New York Mets on September 14, finishing with a 79-71 record.

It was really one of the only times where they felt together as a full unit. What surprised everyone was that it was mostly all done without their big contract guys in Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Adolis Garcia and generational youngster Evan Carter.

The Jack Leiter Experience

This is what Rangers' fans had hoped for from the moment Rob Manfred read his name aloud at the 2021 MLB Draft but never thought they would ever see after Leiter's struggles.

After getting his first taste of big league ball in 2024, Leiter had a lot to work on. Most notably his control/command. Not only did he succeed at that, he might have made himself a sneaky AL Rookie of the Year candidate.

Among qualified rookies in the AL, Leiter threw the third-most innings (151.2), fifth-best ERA (3.86), second-most strikeouts (148) and fifth-best opponent batting average (.222). He still did struggle with command, leading AL rookies with 67 free passes.

Wyatt Langford's 20/20 sophomore season

After a promising end to his rookie campaign in 2024, Langford was probabaly primed for a true breakout second year but the Rangers will still take what they got in return.

A down season offensively throughout the whole lineup, Langford slashed .241/.344/.431 with a team-leading 22 home runs, 74 walks and 22 stolen bases. The 23-year-old also became the youngest Ranger to record a 20/20 season.

Langford set a career-high mark in home runs, walks, on-base percentrage, slugging percentage, on base + slugging and stolen bases.

Rangers' youngsters make their mark

The Rangers "Little Rascals" shocked the baseball world late in the season as they orchestrated a 16-5 stretch from Aug. 22 to Sept. 14, which included three sweeps against the Guardians, Angels and Brewers.

Led by Cody Freeman, Alejandro Osuna and Michael Helman, the group scored double-digits twice and 12 games of five runs or more. In addition, the pitching staff authored three shutouts and Leiter was among his best going 2-1 in four starts, only allowed seven earned runs and striking out 29 batters in 23.2 innings.

Helman also had a miracle run which propelled Texas to that sweep over the MLB-best Brewers which really made that dominate stretch feel like more than just a fluke.