Rangers milestones to keep an eye on throughout the 2025 regular season

It's always fun celebrating a milestone or two alongside professional athletes. For those in Major League Baseball, it's usually a representative of long-term success and productivity in the league.

This year some members of the Texas Rangers are closing in on some big statistical achievements to further cement their status as big leaguers.

Here are a handful of career milestones to keey an eye out for on the Rangers in 2025.

Nathan Eovaldi is 142 strikeouts from 1,500 and 9 wins from 100 in his career.

Eovaldi, 35, is entering his 14th season in Major League Baseball after being drafted out of high school by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2008 draft at just 18 years old.

Since making his debut in 2011, Eovaldi is a two-time World Series champion and two-time All-Star. Eovaldi is best known by Red Sox and Rangers fans for his heroic postseason performances that gave their franchise's a championship in 2018 and 2023.

Both milestones are achieveable for Eovaldi but will require some extra push late into the year. Being only nine wins away from 100 is closer for Nate, having recorded 12 wins in his last two seasons with Texas. The strikeouts on the other hand will be a tougher climb but if he evens his strikeout total from 2024 he'll pass that number in the last month of the regular season.

Joc Pederson is 113 hits from 1,000 career hits

From hit No. 1 to a big leaguer's final hit, each is celebrated with the same cheer. Hits in general are usually one of the biggest measure's of success throughout a career since the name of the game for a hitter is recording a hit.

For Pederson, the 1,000 hit marker is within reach but it'll take setting a career high to do so. Throughout his 11-year MLB career, he's never recorded a season with 113 hits, the closest he got to that mark was his 2019 campaign in L.A. with 112 hits.

What is likely to hurt him this year is his struggles against lefties, since it will be the difference maker in getting Joc an extra 10-15 games in 2025. He can reach that mark with a career year, which would likely include a handful of three to four hits games per month.

Marcus Semien is 12 home runs shy of 250 in his career

This is probably the most achievable lock on this list, outside of one I will talk about later down this article. In a 162 game average, Semien averages 26 home runs and throughout his three seasons with Texas he hasn't hit less than 23 home runs and Semien is a player who's value has only increased with age.

Another way to assure he will hit that 12 home run mark is looking at his year-by-year track record. And its been eight seasons since his last year without hitting less than 12 when he only recorded 10 long balls in 2019 with Oakland.

A consummate professional, no one is more deserving for a milestone like this other than the Rangers' captain himself.

Jacob deGrom is 16 wins shy from 100 career wins

I am putting deGrom on this list solely for the reasoning of manifesting a fully healthy and successful season.

But 16 wins is a tough mark to reach for a pitcher that hasn't even pitched in 16 games since his 2019 Cy Young campaign with the New York Mets. The games played aren't the only issue either, it's the number of wins. Since 2020, he's only combined for 18 total.

Among the many projections available, none of them have deGrom reaching that 16-win mark The closest is OOPSY, projecting deGrom will finish with a 12-7 record. It'll be a tough trek to get deGrom there, but he's reached that mark before.

Bruce Bochy is 24 wins from sixth all-time in managerial wins

I couldn't have milestone list without including the Rangers fearless leader, Bruce Bochy. Entering the 2025 season, Bochy is currently eighth on the all-time list with 2,171.

This season Bochy will move into 6th place as he'll pass Dusty Baker and Sparky Anderson on that list. The first will be Baker, who finished his managerial career with 2,183 wins, which means Bochy will likely surpass him in April.

Anderson will be next to be passed and will also do so early in the year. Bochy will only need 24 wins to do so, an extremely successful first month of the regular season could do the trick but he will definintley pass him up in May.

Bochy also has a larger milestone in the back of his mind, looking to become one of only four managers to win five World Series titles.