2001 Texas Rangers season

The Texas Rangers 2001 season involved the Rangers finishing 4th in the American League West with a record of 73 wins and 89 losses. Despite the team's batting leading the league in home runs and finishing second in on-base percentage and OPS, the team's pitching was historically poor; the team combined for an ERA of 5.71 (a franchise-worst mark), and led the league in hits allowed, earned runs surrendered, and total runs surrendered. Their 913 earned runs allowed would also be a franchise-worst, and out of all pitchers that recorded at least 75 innings, none had an ERA below 4.45.

2001 Texas Rangers
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record73–89 (.451)
Divisional place4th
Other information
OwnersTom Hicks
General managersDoug Melvin
ManagersJohnny Oates, Jerry Narron
Local televisionKDFW
KDFI
(Tom Grieve, Bill Jones)
Local radioKRLD
(Eric Nadel, Vince Cotroneo)
KESS-FM
(Eleno Ornelas, Edgar Lopez)
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Offseason
  • November 17, 2000: Aaron Harang was traded by the Texas Rangers with Ryan Cullen (minors) to the Oakland Athletics for Randy Velarde.[1]
  • December 10, 2000: Ken Caminiti was signed as a free agent with the Texas Rangers.[2]
  • January 26, 2001 – Alex Rodriguez signed with the Texas Rangers, who had fallen to last in their division in 2000. The contract he signed is the most lucrative contract in sports history: a 10-year deal worth $252 million. The deal is worth $63 million more than the second-richest baseball deal.

Regular season

Opening Day Starters

Season Summary
  • June 8, 2001 – The first interleague game between the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers took place at The Ballpark at Arlington. The rivalry would be known as the Lone Star Series. The Astros won the game by a score of 5-4.[3] The team that would win the most games between the two in a season would be awarded the Silver Boot.

Season standings
AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
Seattle Mariners 11646 0.716 — 57–24 59–22
Oakland Athletics 10260 0.630 14 53–28 49–32
Anaheim Angels 7587 0.463 41 39–42 36–45
Texas Rangers 7389 0.451 43 41–41 32–48

Record vs. opponents
2001 American League record

Sources:
Team ANA BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL 
Anaheim —4–54–36–35–45–45–43–64–36–144–157–27–125–410–8
Baltimore 5–4—9–103–41–54–25–23–35–132–71–810–92–77–126–12
Boston 3–410–9—3–33–64–53–33–35–134–53–614–55–212–710–8
Chicago 3–64–33–3—10–913–614–55–141–51–82–75–27–23–312–6
Cleveland 4–55–16–39–10—13–611–814–54–54–32–55–15–42–47–11
Detroit 4–52–45–46–136–13—8–114–154–51–62–54–28–12–410–8
Kansas City 4–52–53–35–148–1111–8—6–130–63–63–64–24–54–38–10
Minnesota 6–33–33–314–55–1415–413–6—4–25–41–81–64–52–59–9
New York 3–413–513–55–15–45–46–02–4—3–63–613–63–411–810–8
Oakland 14–67–25–48–13–46–16–34–56–3—9–107–29–106–312–6
Seattle 15–48–16–37–25–25–26–38–16–310–9—7–215–56–312–6
Tampa Bay 2–79–105–142–51–52–42–46–16–132–72–7—4–59–1010–8
Texas 12–77–22–52–74–51–85–45–44–310–95–155–4—3–68–10
Toronto 4–512–77–123–34–24–23–45–28–113–63–610–96–3—8–10

Transactions

Roster
2001 Texas Rangers
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Alex Rodriguez

Alex Rodriguez's power hitting numbers improved with his move to Texas. In his first season with the Rangers, Alex produced one of the top offensive seasons ever for a shortstop, leading the American League with 52 HR, 133 runs scored, and 393 total bases. He became the first player since 1932 with 50 homers and 200 hits in a season, just the third shortstop to ever lead his league in homers, and was just the second AL player in the last 34 seasons (beginning 1968) to lead the league in runs, homers, and total bases; his total base figure is the most ever for a major league shortstop. His 52 homers made him the sixth youngest to ever reach 50 homers and were the highest total ever by a shortstop, surpassing Ernie Banks' mark of 47 in 1958, and also the most ever for an infielder other than a first baseman, breaking Phillies 3B Mike Schmidt's record of 48 in 1980.[8]

It was his 5th 30-homer campaign, tying Banks for most ever by a shortstop. He also tied for the league lead in extra base hits (87) and ranked 3rd in RBI (135) and slugging (.622). He was also among the AL leaders in hits (4th, 201), average (7th, .318), and on-base percentage (8th, .399). He established Rangers club records for homers, runs, total bases, and hit by pitches, had the 2nd most extra base hits, and the 4th highest RBI total. He led the club in runs, hits, doubles (34), homers, RBI, slugging, and on-base percentage and was 2nd in walks (75), stolen bases (18), and game-winning RBI (14) while posting career highs for homers, RBI, and total bases. Rodriguez started 161 games at shortstop and one as the DH, the only major league player to start all of his team's games in 2001.

Player stats

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CIván Rodríguez111442136.3082565
1BRafael Palmeiro160600164.27347123
2BMichael Young10138696.2491149
SSAlex Rodriguez162632201.31852135
3BMike Lamb7628487.306435
LFFrank Catalanotto133463153.3301154
CFGabe Kapler134483129.2671772
RFRicky Ledée7824256.231236
DHRubén Sierra94344100.2912367

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Randy Velarde7829688.297931
Rusty Greer6224567.273729
Andrés Galarraga7224357.2351034
Ken Caminiti5418543.232925
Bill Haselman4713037.285325
Rubén Mateo4012932.248113
Scott Sheldon6112024.200311
Chad Curtis3811529.252310
Bo Porter488720.23016
Carlos Peña226216.258312
Craig Monroe275211.21225
Doug Mirabelli23495.10223
Chris Magruder17295.17201
Marcus Jensen11254.16002
Mike Hubbard5113.27311
Cliff Brumbaugh7100.00000
Kelly Dransfeldt430.00000

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Rick Helling34215.212115.17154
Doug Davis30186.011104.45115
Darren Oliver28154.011116.02104
Kenny Rogers20120.2576.1974
Rob Bell18105.1557.1864
Aaron Myette1980.2457.1467
Joaquin Benoit15.00010.804

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Ryan Glynn1246.0157.0415
Justin Duchscherer514.21112.2711
Mike Judd49.0018.005

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Jeff Zimmerman6644282.4072
Mike Venafro705544.8029
Pat Mahomes567605.7061
Mark Petkovsek551206.6942
Juan Moreno453303.9236
Tim Crabtree210546.5616
Jeff Brantley180105.1411
Danny Kolb170004.7015
J.D. Smart151206.4610
Chris Michalak112213.3210
Kevin Foster90106.6216
Brandon Villafuerte600014.294
Jonathan Johnson50009.5811
R.A. Dickey40106.754
Francisco Cordero30103.861

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Oklahoma RedHawks Pacific Coast League DeMarlo Hale
AA Tulsa Drillers Texas League Paul Carey
A Charlotte Rangers Florida State League Darryl Kennedy
A Savannah Sand Gnats South Atlantic League Bill Slack and Pedro López
Rookie Pulaski Rangers Appalachian League Bruce Crabbe
Rookie GCL Rangers Gulf Coast League Carlos Subero

References
  1. "Aaron Harang Stats".
  2. "Ken Caminiti Stats".
  3. "Box Score of Game played on Friday, June 8, 2001 at the Ballpark in Arlington".
  4. "Mark Teixeira Stats".
  5. "Justin Duchscherer Stats".
  6. "Andres Galarraga Stats".
  7. "Randy Velarde Stats".
  8. "Single-Season Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball Reference. Archived from the original on June 20, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
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