The Texas Rangers went 95-67 in 2016, a .586 winning percentage — the third best record in baseball. They scored 765 runs and allowed 757, a run differential of +8. The offence ranked 7th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.26 staff ERA was 20th of 30. Their 96 team wRC+ was 4% below league average — 22nd of 30 in MLB. Adrian Beltré led the position players at 4.7 WAR, and Cole Hamels the rotation at a 3.32 ERA.
The 2016 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the AL West, 9 games clear. They spent 148 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 10.5 games on September 3 and were as far as 2.5 games back on May 5. Their best month was June at 20-8, their worst July at 11-15. The longest runs were a 7-game winning streak from June 14 to June 20 and a 4-game losing streak from April 22 to April 25. They were 53-28 at home and 42-39 on the road, 36-11 in one-run games and 60-31 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-1 against the Mariners on August 31; the heaviest defeat, 17-5 at the Twins on July 2.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
14
10
.583
106
90
+16
May
17
11
.607
140
131
+9
June
20
8
.714
149
119
+30
July
11
15
.423
110
156
-46
August
18
10
.643
130
117
+13
Sept/Oct
15
13
.536
130
144
-14
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
53-28
.654
Road
42-39
.519
One-run games
36-11
.766
Extra innings
6-6
.500
Within the division
47-29
.618
Against .500+ clubs
60-31
.659
Decided by 5+ runs
18-24
.429
Last 10
5-5
.500
American League West standings, 2016
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2016. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
33,462
32,480
20,720
49,289
Night
61
32,999
32,189
21,877
47,559
Day
20
34,872
35,342
20,720
49,289
Weekend
38
38,375
37,677
29,589
47,559
Weekday
43
29,120
27,292
20,720
49,289
On the road
81
27,561
28,522
10,068
44,897
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
31,407
May
13
35,314
Jun
13
35,779
Jul
11
35,645
Aug
15
28,901
Sep
13
33,983
Oct
2
39,554
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 162 completed games, 2016.
Regulation
2:57
150 games
All games
3:00
Extra innings
3:34
12 of them
Longest
4:03
2016-08-11, 9 inn
Shortest
2:19
2016-04-26
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
162
3:00
3:00
2:14
4:03
Regulation
150
2:57
2:56
2:14
4:03
Extra innings
12
3:34
3:35
3:01
4:00
Home
81
3:02
3:00
2:19
4:03
Road
81
2:58
2:58
2:14
3:57
Day
47
3:04
3:04
2:17
4:03
Night
115
2:59
2:56
2:14
3:58
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
2:51
May
13
3:11
Jun
13
2:58
Jul
11
2:57
Aug
15
3:05
Sep
13
3:06
Oct
2
3:20
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 177 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Texas Rangers are 95-67, a .586 win rate, while their +8 run differential implies .505. That is about 13 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
