Skip Schumaker's small but dominate sample size against top Rangers' pitchers

The Texas Rangers new manager Skip Schumaker is only ten years removed from the end of his Major League Baseball career and that has afforded him an opportunity to face some familiar faces in the organization.

At 45 years old, Schumaker overlapped with four Rangers' during his big league career, three of which who played with Texas in 2025.

While those sample sizes weren't astronomically high, something is telling me that Skip has a few friendly bragging rights walking through the walls of Globe Life Field.

Schumaker's playing career includes getting best of some big Rangers' names

Originally drafted in fifth round of the 2001 MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals, Schumaker made his big league debut four years later on June 8, 2005, and went hitless in five at-bats before getting recalled to Triple-A. He was promote back to the Cardinals in August where he recorded his first MLB hit.

That was Schumacher's first of 905 career hits at the major league level and 10 of those came against a combination of Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Patrick Corbin and his boss President of Baseball Operations Chris Young.

It's that very boss he had the best percentage against, going 3-for-4 (.750) against Young. He also got the best of the former two-time Cy Young winner in deGrom recording two hits in three at-bats. Outside of that he went 2-for-4 (.500) against Corbin and 3-for-9 (.333) against Eovaldi.

See, all these are small sample sizes but to be hitting at MVP-caliber level against four veteran arms in Major League Baseball throughout his career does give him extra added respect in the clubhouse.

Schumaker's numbers against the four Rangers isn't even the most impressive fact in this conversation

Now the numbers are great. But the fact the stat even exists is a feat in its own. It shows that talent plays and it is situated within the walls of Globe Life Field.

As we mentioned, Schumaker was drafted in '01, Young was drafted a year prior in 2000, Eovaldi in 2008, Corbin in 2009 and deGrom in 2010. That is 26 years of Major League Baseball Experience inside the walls of one stadium among just 5 individuals.

Sure, Corbin is a free agent and Texas is unlikely to re-sign him but that still leaves four names with heavy experience. Two of which are on that pitching mound every fifth day and the other invested daily in the organziation and clubhouse.