The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays are two of the very best groups in Main League Baseball, each thought of to be strong contenders for 2023’s world championship.
But the 2 franchises aren’t any strangers to disappointment. Neither has ever received a World Collection. That’s a 62-year dry spell for the Rangers, who date again to 1961 (once they had been born because the Washington Senators), and a 25-year shutout for the Rays, who had been based in 1998 (once they had been often known as the Satan Rays).
The Rangers and Rays are the themes of this eleventh installment in my 15-part sequence concerning the excessive seasons — the very best and worst performances — posted by all 30 MLB franchises through the Fashionable Period, the span from 1961 to the current. Every Friday brings a narrative a couple of new pair of golf equipment, which seem in alphabetical order.
These rankings are primarily based on group scores (TS), that are plotted on an equalized 100-point scale, thereby permitting direct comparisons of golf equipment from completely different seasons. (Click here to learn more about the TS formula.)
Listed here are the years at each extremes for right now’s franchises:
Greatest 12 months for the Rangers: Texas posted 96 wins in 2011, the best whole within the membership’s historical past. The Rangers ousted the Rays and Detroit Tigers to achieve that 12 months’s World Collection, the place they seized a 3-2 lead over St. Louis. The title appeared to be within the bag, however the Cardinals accomplished an epic comeback by profitable the ultimate two video games. Third baseman Adrian Beltre and second baseman Ian Kinsler tied for the Texas lead with 32 dwelling runs. Designated hitter Michael Young batted .338 with 106 runs batted in. C.J. Wilson and Derek Holland paced the pitching employees with 16 wins every.
Worst 12 months for the Rangers: The franchise’s very first 12 months within the Dallas-Fort Value space proved to be its worst. The Rangers went 54-100 in 1972, ending 38.5 video games behind first-place Oakland within the American League West. Proper fielder Ted Ford, with 14, was the one batter to achieve double digits in dwelling runs. Pitcher Rich Hand led the membership with 10 wins.
Greatest 12 months for the Rays: The Covid-truncated 2020 schedule labored out properly for Tampa Bay, which received two-thirds of its regular-season video games and superior all the best way to the World Collection. The unlucky upshot was a six-game loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Second baseman Brandon Lowe led the Rays in homers (14) and RBIs (37). Third baseman Yandy Diaz batted .307. Beginning pitchers Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell respectively went 5-1 and 4-2.
Worst 12 months for the Rays: The Tampa Bay franchise was often known as the Satan Rays throughout its first decade (1998-2007), and the membership coincidentally suffered greater than 90 defeats in every of these seasons. It touched backside (based on the TS system) in 2006, when the Satan Rays struggled to a 61-101 document. Left fielder Carl Crawford topped that group with a .305 batting common, whereas pitcher Scott Kazmir went 10-8 with a 3.24 ERA.
Scroll all the way down to see the highest 10 and backside 10 seasons between 1961 and 2022 for Washington/Texas or between 1998 and 2022 for Tampa Bay. Comparable rankings for all different MLB golf equipment might be discovered within the print version of Baseball’s Best (and Worst) 2023 Yearbook.
Every group is listed beneath with the 12 months in brackets, adopted by its regular-season win-loss document, postseason outcomes (if any) in parentheses, margin between runs scored and allowed per recreation, and Fashionable Period percentile.
These are the postseason abbreviations: P signifies {that a} membership made the playoffs, L implies that it received a league championship, and W signifies that it received the World Collection.
The Fashionable Period percentile is the share of all 1,656 major-league golf equipment from 1961 by 2022 {that a} given group outperformed, primarily based on TS comparisons.
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1. Rangers [2011], 96-66 (LP), plus-1.10 margin, 96.4% in period
2. Rangers [2010], 90-72 (LP), plus-0.62 margin, 89.2% in period
3. Rangers [1999], 95-67 (P), plus-0.53 margin, 83.0% in period
4. Rangers [2012], 93-69 (P), plus-0.62 margin, 82.5% in period
5. Rangers [1977], 94-68, plus-0.68 margin, 79.7% in period
6. Rangers [1996], 90-72 (P), plus-0.79 margin, 79.0% in period
7. Rangers [2013], 91-72, plus-0.58 margin, 73.9% in period
8. Rangers [1981], 57-48, plus-0.60 margin, 73.1% in period
9. Rangers [1993], 86-76, plus-0.52 margin, 71.9% in period
10. Rangers [1978], 87-75, plus-0.37 margin, 70.5% in period
1. Rangers [1972], 54-100, minus-1.08 margin, 1.1% in period
2. Rangers [1973], 57-105, minus-1.39 margin, 1.2% in period
3. Senators [1963], 56-106, minus-1.44 margin, 1.8% in period
4. Rangers [2014], 67-95, minus-0.84 margin, 4.2% in period
5. Senators [1962], 60-101, minus-0.72 margin, 5.1% in period
6. Rangers [2020], 22-38, minus-1.47 margin, 5.4% in period
7. Rangers [1982], 64-98, minus-0.98 margin, 5.4% in period
8. Senators [1968], 65-96, minus-0.88 margin, 5.5% in period
9. Rangers [2021], 60-102, minus-1.17 margin, 6.2% in period
10. Rangers [1985], 62-99, minus-1.04 margin, 7.3% in period
1. Rays [2020], 40-20 (LP), plus-1.00 margin, 96.3% in period
2. Rays [2008], 97-65 (LP), plus-0.64 margin, 93.5% in period
3. Rays [2021], 100-62 (P), plus-1.27 margin, 89.7% in period
4. Rays [2010], 96-66 (P), plus-0.94 margin, 87.1% in period
5. Rays [2012], 90-72, plus-0.74 margin, 83.4% in period
6. Rays [2019], 96-66 (P), plus-0.70 margin, 78.4% in period
7. Rays [2011], 91-71 (P), plus-0.57 margin, 76.0% in period
8. Rays [2013], 92-71 (P), plus-0.33 margin, 72.1% in period
9. Rays [2018], 90-72, plus-0.43 margin, 71.8% in period
10. Rays [2009], 84-78, plus-0.30 margin, 68.4% in period
1. Satan Rays [2006], 61-101, minus-1.03 margin, 3.9% in period
2. Satan Rays [2002], 55-106, minus-1.52 margin, 4.4% in period
3. Satan Rays [2001], 62-100, minus-1.33 margin, 7.4% in period
4. Satan Rays [2005], 67-95, minus-1.15 margin, 8.9% in period
5. Satan Rays [2007], 66-96, minus-1.00 margin, 9.4% in period
6. Satan Rays [2000], 69-92, minus-0.68 margin, 10.5% in period
7. Satan Rays [1998], 63-99, minus-0.81 margin, 11.1% in period
8. Satan Rays [1999], 69-93, minus-0.87 margin, 14.0% in period
9. Satan Rays [2003], 63-99, minus-0.85 margin, 14.6% in period
10. Satan Rays [2004], 70-91, minus-0.80 margin, 17.5% in period
