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2001 Texas Rangers season

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2001 Texas Rangers
LeagueAmerican League
DivisionWest
BallparkThe Ballpark in Arlington
CityArlington, Texas
Record73–89 (.451)
Divisional place4th
OwnersTom Hicks
General managersDoug Melvin
ManagersJohnny Oates, Jerry Narron
TelevisionKDFW
KDFI
(Tom Grieve, Bill Jones)
RadioKRLD
(Eric Nadel, Vince Cotroneo)
KESS-FM
(Eleno Ornelas, Edgar Lopez)
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The 2001 Texas Rangers season was the 41st of the Texas Rangers franchise overall, their 30th in Arlington as the Rangers, and their 8th season at The Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers finished fourth 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.

Offseason

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  • 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

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Opening Day starters

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Season summary

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  • 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

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AL West
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Seattle Mariners 116 46 .716 — 57‍–‍24 59‍–‍22
Oakland Athletics 102 60 .630 14 53‍–‍28 49‍–‍32
Anaheim Angels 75 87 .463 41 39‍–‍42 36‍–‍45
Texas Rangers 73 89 .451 43 41‍–‍41 32‍–‍48


Record vs. opponents

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2001 American League record

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Team ANA BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL 
Anaheim — 4–5 4–3 6–3 5–4 5–4 5–4 3–6 4–3 6–14 4–15 7–2 7–12 5–4 10–8
Baltimore 5–4 — 9–10 3–4 1–5 4–2 5–2 3–3 5–13 2–7 1–8 10–9 2–7 7–12 6–12
Boston 3–4 10–9 — 3–3 3–6 4–5 3–3 3–3 5–13 4–5 3–6 14–5 5–2 12–7 10–8
Chicago 3–6 4–3 3–3 — 10–9 13–6 14–5 5–14 1–5 1–8 2–7 5–2 7–2 3–3 12–6
Cleveland 4–5 5–1 6–3 9–10 — 13–6 11–8 14–5 4–5 4–3 2–5 5–1 5–4 2–4 7–11
Detroit 4–5 2–4 5–4 6–13 6–13 — 8–11 4–15 4–5 1–6 2–5 4–2 8–1 2–4 10–8
Kansas City 4–5 2–5 3–3 5–14 8–11 11–8 — 6–13 0–6 3–6 3–6 4–2 4–5 4–3 8–10
Minnesota 6–3 3–3 3–3 14–5 5–14 15–4 13–6 — 4–2 5–4 1–8 1–6 4–5 2–5 9–9
New York 3–4 13–5 13–5 5–1 5–4 5–4 6–0 2–4 — 3–6 3–6 13–6 3–4 11–8 10–8
Oakland 14–6 7–2 5–4 8–1 3–4 6–1 6–3 4–5 6–3 — 9–10 7–2 9–10 6–3 12–6
Seattle 15–4 8–1 6–3 7–2 5–2 5–2 6–3 8–1 6–3 10–9 — 7–2 15–5 6–3 12–6
Tampa Bay 2–7 9–10 5–14 2–5 1–5 2–4 2–4 6–1 6–13 2–7 2–7 — 4–5 9–10 10–8
Texas 12–7 7–2 2–5 2–7 4–5 1–8 5–4 5–4 4–3 10–9 5–15 5–4 — 3–6 8–10
Toronto 4–5 12–7 7–12 3–3 4–2 4–2 3–4 5–2 8–11 3–6 3–6 10–9 6–3 — 8–10


Transactions

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Roster

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2001 Texas Rangers
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Alex Rodriguez

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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

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Batting

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Starters by position

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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
C Iván Rodríguez 111 442 136 .308 25 65
1B Rafael Palmeiro 160 600 164 .273 47 123
2B Michael Young 101 386 96 .249 11 49
SS Alex Rodriguez 162 632 201 .318 52 135
3B Mike Lamb 76 284 87 .306 4 35
LF Frank Catalanotto 133 463 153 .330 11 54
CF Gabe Kapler 134 483 129 .267 17 72
RF Ricky Ledée 78 242 56 .231 2 36
DH Rubén Sierra 94 344 100 .291 23 67

Other batters

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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 Velarde 78 296 88 .297 9 31
Rusty Greer 62 245 67 .273 7 29
Andrés Galarraga 72 243 57 .235 10 34
Ken Caminiti 54 185 43 .232 9 25
Bill Haselman 47 130 37 .285 3 25
Rubén Mateo 40 129 32 .248 1 13
Scott Sheldon 61 120 24 .200 3 11
Chad Curtis 38 115 29 .252 3 10
Bo Porter 48 87 20 .230 1 6
Carlos Peña 22 62 16 .258 3 12
Craig Monroe 27 52 11 .212 2 5
Doug Mirabelli 23 49 5 .102 2 3
Chris Magruder 17 29 5 .172 0 1
Marcus Jensen 11 25 4 .160 0 2
Mike Hubbard 5 11 3 .273 1 1
Cliff Brumbaugh 7 10 0 .000 0 0
Kelly Dransfeldt 4 3 0 .000 0 0

Pitching

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Starting pitchers

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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 Helling 34 215.2 12 11 5.17 154
Doug Davis 30 186.0 11 10 4.45 115
Darren Oliver 28 154.0 11 11 6.02 104
Kenny Rogers 20 120.2 5 7 6.19 74
Rob Bell 18 105.1 5 5 7.18 64
Aaron Myette 19 80.2 4 5 7.14 67
Joaquin Benoit 1 5.0 0 0 10.80 4

Other pitchers

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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 Glynn 12 46.0 1 5 7.04 15
Justin Duchscherer 5 14.2 1 1 12.27 11
Mike Judd 4 9.0 0 1 8.00 5

Relief pitchers

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

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Jeff Zimmerman 66 4 4 28 2.40 72
Mike Venafro 70 5 5 4 4.80 29
Pat Mahomes 56 7 6 0 5.70 61
Mark Petkovsek 55 1 2 0 6.69 42
Juan Moreno 45 3 3 0 3.92 36
Tim Crabtree 21 0 5 4 6.56 16
Jeff Brantley 18 0 1 0 5.14 11
Danny Kolb 17 0 0 0 4.70 15
J.D. Smart 15 1 2 0 6.46 10
Chris Michalak 11 2 2 1 3.32 10
Kevin Foster 9 0 1 0 6.62 16
Brandon Villafuerte 6 0 0 0 14.29 4
Jonathan Johnson 5 0 0 0 9.58 11
R.A. Dickey 4 0 1 0 6.75 4
Francisco Cordero 3 0 1 0 3.86 1

Awards and honors

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All-Star Game

Farm system

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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

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  1. ^ "Aaron Harang Stats".
  2. ^ a b "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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