Final thoughts from Texas Rangers’ loss to Seattle: Early hole leads to lost series (2024)

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Does Nolan Ryan own the Rangers? ›

In 2008 he became team president for the Texas Rangers. Ryan was a member of the ownership group that purchased the Rangers in 2010. In 2011 he became the CEO of the Rangers, and two years later he gave up his title of president of the team.

Mr. Davis is Managing Partner and Majority Owner of the Texas Rangers and is the Chairman of the team's Board of Directors. Since he became a Principal Owner in August 2010, the Rangers have advanced to postseason play six times, won four A.L. West Division titles and three A.L.

The Rangers finished the 2023 season with a 90-72 record, losing the AL West title to the Houston Astros on a tiebreaker. On November 1, 2023, the Rangers won the World Series after defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games, achieving their first World Series championship in franchise history.

The first Texas Rangers were minutemen hired by settlers as protection against Native American attacks. During the Texas Revolution and Texas's years as an independent republic, the Rangers, headquartered in Austin, also served as a border patrol.

“It closes a chapter of my life in baseball,” Ryan told the Associated Press. “I feel like it's time for me to move on to other things. It's been a decision that weighed on me heavily, but I feel like it's the right decision. . . . At this point and time, it's the correct thing for me to do.”

Texas Rangers president and CEO (2008–2013)

At midnight on August 5, 2010, the Ryan/Greenberg group, Rangers Baseball Express, was announced the winners of the final auction to purchase the Rangers, after final approval from Major League Baseball. The final cash bid to purchase the franchise was $385 million.

In 2023, the Texas Rangers had an estimated value of around 2.23 billion U.S. dollars. The value of the Major League Baseball franchise grew by 8.5 percent between 2022 and 2023. The Texas Rangers are owned by Ray Davis and Bob Simpson, who bought the franchise for 593 million U.S. dollars in 2010.

The value of the Texas Rangers has grown 8% in the past year, after the team won Major League Baseball's World Series for the first time, according to Forbes. The magazine recently released its 2024 MLB Valuations and the Rangers clocked in at roughly $2.4 billion as of March.

The Rangers played their first 51 seasons in Texas without winning the World Series, following the franchise's 11 fruitless seasons as the Washington Senators. But now, that long quest for a title is over.

What are the odds of the Texas Rangers winning the World Series? ›

Texas Rangers Odds to Win the World Series

The current Rangers odds to win the World Series have them sixth out of 30 teams at +1400 at DraftKings Sportsbook.

They moved to Texas for the 1972 season and came agonizingly close to a World Series championship in 2011, needing just one strike on two occasions before eventually falling to the St Louis Cardinals. Now, after five stadiums, roughly two dozen managers and 10,033 games, the Rangers are champions.

Frank Hamer was the bridge between Texas Rangers with horses and six-shooters and peacekeepers with pistols and Model Ts. Frank Hamer was bigger than life, the last of a now-dead breed of lawman, and what many would consider the archetype of a Texas Ranger.

It was during this time that John “Jack” Coffee Hays became the most famous Texas Ranger of the era. Fighting in some of the period's most significant battles between Texans and American Indians, Hays quickly proved himself to be a strong leader, smart decision-maker, and fearless and brutal fighter.

Texas Rangers

The Power Rangers – Reference to their slugging years from the late 1990s to early 2010s. The Lone Stars – Reference to Texas's nickname, the "Lone Star State". This team nickname has been rarely used in recent years.

Ryan served as Astros president from 2013 to 2019, and then stayed with the franchise for another year as an executive adviser while Astros owner Jim Crane's son, Jared Crane, moved into an executive role. Nolan Ryan also stepped down from an executive adviser role following Reid's reassignment in 2019.

The team is named for Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who was nicknamed "The Ryan Express." Ryan, along with son Reid Ryan and Don Sanders make up the team's ownership group, Ryan Sanders Baseball.

Nolan Ryan pitched two no-hitters with the Rangers.