The Texas Rangers made some terrible decisions, but wound up winning by spending, spending some more and embracing change
The first thing everyone does after some other guy’s team wins the big silver trophy is ask themselves, ‘What can the people who run my favourite team learn from them?’Texas did this the old-fashioned way – desperately, a bit stupidly and with a lot of blind luck.
As a working visitor, you’d sit in their sealed, air-conditioned press box watching the few fans in attendance lose half their bodyweight over the course of nine innings. This year, the Rangers spent like blackout-drunken sailors on pitching. When the pitching broke down , they spent even more at the deadline.
This was no seamless process. The Rangers went on a nine-game losing streak in August. They lost the division on the last day of the season. At that point, the Rangers should have been playing Atlanta, or maybe Los Angeles. More complete teams put together more carefully and built with far more purpose. But they weren’t. They were facing the Arizona Diamondbacks – a team of nobodies who’d got that far because no one bothered to tell them they weren’t invited.
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