Rising of Rangers' youth silver lining to yet another disappointing season in 2025

While the Texas Rangers have seen their playoff hopes dash over the last week, the 2025 season is about to come to an end for a second straight year without playing in October.

Two years ago, it seemed like this was going to be the start of getting the Rangers back on track and we were going to see a generational run but that wasn't the case.

However, let's look at a silver lining of the Rangers 2025 season. A late-season surge, championed by the efforts of the Rangers' youth, gives a lot of youthful talent to lean on moving forward.

Veteran injuries showcased how impactful Rangers' youth can be

Dating back to nearly one month ago, the core that brought the Rangers their first World Series title two years, slowly started to get sidelined. Beginning with Evan Carter, Marcus Semien and Nathan Eovaldi and extending to Corey Seager.

At that point, they were 7.5 games back in the American League West division and five games back in for a final AL Wild Card spot. The season seemed almost impossible to overcome but in came the the rise of youthful exuberance.

Led by Wyatt Langford, Michael Helman, Cody Freeman and Ezequiel Duran, they went on a 16-5 run in their next 21 games and closed the playoff gap to just a handful of games, heading into a crucial week on Monday.

In that time, the 23-year-old Langford won the Rangers' August Player of the Month Award and hit .287 with five long balls and 14 runs driven in during the 27 games of the month. Helman also had a streak of unmatched wonder, going on a dominant run down the stretch.

Although it seems their hot streak has cooled down and the playoff hopes are declining with it, it was a stretch of fun baseball for Rangers' fans to watch and offered some optimism for the future.

Rangers' direction moving forward has options thanks to late season heroics

It's hard to tell what direction the Rangers will go during the offseason. We can take a guess of what President of Baseball Operations Chris Young will want to do but their is some lack of faith among the fanbase because the last two offseason moves have fallen flat for Texas.

There are areas of needs to address, players to let go of and maybe even some positions to revamp during the winter. Fortunantelty it seems the Rangers might have a plethora of options on the free agent market and even could make guys like Freeman, Osuna and Helman make a more steady impact in 2026.

Therefore, while 2025 will be the 9th year of no playoffs in the last 10 seasons, Texas can look at the late-season run powered by some of the Rangers' recent draft picks as a positive sign moving forw