Spitballing the Rangers' 2025, 2026, & 2027 rosters: Part 3 of a four-part series.
We're on to 2026.
Let’s just get this out of the way: The Rangers will win the 2025 World Series.
It’s what Bruce Bochy teams do, more often that not. He’s won four championships. Two years after the first one (which was the Giants’ first in its 53 years in San Francisco), he won it again. Two years after the second one, he won it again. Two years after the third one, his Giants got by the Mets in the NL Wild Card Game but were stopped by the Cubs in the Division Series. That’s the one time he didn’t repeat the feat two seasons after the last win.
Now, having won a championship here in 2023 (the Rangers’ first in its 52 years in Texas), since I’ve got the reins on this hypothetical exercise, I’m calling it now — another parade in 2025.
Crazy? Certainly no crazier than it would have been two years ago today, when the Rangers were two games under .500 and six games out of any playoff spot, if you’d predicted they would win it all in 2023.
Plus, after the roster adjustments we made in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, the 2025 roster will open with Jacob deGrom, Roki Sasaki, and Jesus Luzardo atop the rotation, Ryan Helsley and Kirby Yates anchoring a much deeper pen, and Tommy Edman plus either Justin Turner or Randal Grichuk added to the core of the offense. It’s a roster built to win.
The question becomes, with the team in a 2025 pennant race, how much the 2026 and 2027 picture will be compromised at the trade deadline. Let’s start there, in July of 2025, before completing the 2026 build with the offseason following the Rangers’ second title in three years — and a major hire off the field.