Rangers' lone All-Star indicative of team's 2025 issues, painful reminder of the past

If the past season and a half of baseball weren't eye-opening enough, only one Texas Ranger making the All-Star team will do the job quick.

In the midst of a career resurgence, the 37-year-old Jacob deGrom was selected as one of the 12 American League pitchers in the Midsummer Classic on July 15 in Atlanta.

However, for a Rangers team only two years removed from a World Series title and a franchise-record six All-Star players in Seattle, only one in 2025 is a sad dose of reality.

Lack of Texas Rangers in Atlanta further echo team's struggles

You will have to go back to 2018 to find a time when the Rangers only had one All-Star representative thanks to outfielder Shin Soo Choo. From that moment on, Texas always had at least two Rangers on the AL's Midsummer Classic roster.

Even last year in a disappointing World Series title defense, the Rangers had four All-Stars at their home site in Arlington. However, 2025 is a new low. Not only because of just one representative but what it means to an organization that was supposed to be one of the best team's in Major League Baseball.

The offense is one of the worst in the league and from the get-go that has been the case. A bottom team in almost every offensive category, they have scored the sixth-least runs (340), fourth-worst batting average (.228) and OPS (.662), among many more.

Now if we were to put together an All-MLB June team, Marcus Semien has a case to take the starting second baseman job. But before the month of June, he was hitting a paltry and ended the month of May hitting .193 and a .536 OPS.

Outside of that, the rest of the offense has been either dreadful or spent way too much time on the injured list and it tanked the first half of their season.

Now not all the 2025 season has been a disaster. First off, we have the deGrom comeback season. Beyond that we can point to the season of Josh Smith (who might have been snubbed), and a handful of arms (Hoby Milner, Robert Garcia or nathan Eovaldi).

Still, with those guys have good years, it still doesn't shock me to see just deGrom wearing the Texas "T" in Atlanta next week.

Ranger fans yearning for memories of old

Flashback to happier days two years ago on July 11, 2023, the Rangers sent six players to Seattle, four of whom started the game. That was the most of any single team to have All-Star starters since 2012.

That was easily the highest of highs for Rangers' fans, especially after having a record offensive first half and entering the post-All-Star break at 52-39 and a first place hold in the American League West. While that lead didn't hold we all know how the season ended, with a World Series title.

It may not be a big deal to miss out on the All-Star Game but it still stings a bit and shows just how bad this team is.