Rangers early season offense is bringing back vibes missing the previous two seasons

Since the Texas Rangers’ disappointing end to the 2025 season, questions surrounded their offense. While there were early Opening Day doubts, their performance in the four games since has begun to shift that perception.

Carrying a 4-2 record into their first homer series against the Reds, the Rangers have scored 32 runs on eight home runs, 56 hits, eight doubles and 31 RBIs. All of which sit among the best league-wide in the early stage of the year.

Offensive vibes on lock for first time since 2023

Fans have fond memories of the 2023 season since it brought the franchise its first World Series title and a huge contributor to that success was an offensive superpower they built. That year, Texas finished top three in MLB in runs, hits, doubles, HRs, RBIs, walks, average, on-base, slug and OPS.

It was truly an electric season where they won 37 games by five or more runs, spent 160 days in first place and never spent a season under .500. During the offseason, they also hit a home run in 16 of 17 postseason games.

Led by the offensive weapon that is Jake Burger, the Rangers are off to their best start since the 2012 season and looking to keep it rolling to finish off the road trip and opening up their home slate this weekend.

Including Burger, Texas has four batters hitting .300 or above with Andrew McCutchen leading the way .455 in a small sample size of 11 at-bats. It's hard to maintain that level of success but these were numbers fans were seeing during the 31-game spring schedule.

Rangers actually showing fight to start year

Part of the team's struggles in the back-to-back down years was the inability to at least get something going that might get the Rangers back in a game.

We saw the switch on display in the ninth inning of the Opening Day game in Philadelphia. Despite eventually losing 5-2, Texas entered the inning down 5-0 and even got the tying run to the plate. Then during Tuesday's win over Baltimore, after the Orioles scored, the Rangers promptly answered back until they put the game out of reach.

That didn't happen a lot over the last two seasons. Even in Wednesday's loss, Texas did something they only did four times in 2025: record four straight hits with two outs in an inning.