With 15 games left to play in the regular season, the Rangers are still very much alive for a postseason berth.
While they are a below-.500 team at 72-75, they sit three games back of the Houston Astros in the AL West and two games behind the Cleveland Guardians for the final AL Wild Card spot. In reality, Texas would need to finish one game ahead of the Astros in the final standings to win the division, as Houston owns the tiebreaker after winning the season series between the two teams.
See how our Rangers playoff and standings tracker looks down the stretch as Texas tries to make the playoffs for the first time since winning the World Series in 2023.
The best team in each of the three divisions in the American League and National League earn an automatic berth into the MLB playoffs, plus the three best remaining teams in the AL and NL get Wild Card spots. In total, 12 teams qualify for the postseason.
The playoffs begin with Wild Card series, where the Wild Card team with the worst record plays the division winner with the worst record and the two Wild Card teams with the best and second-best records face off. All series in the Wild Card round are best-of-three games.
The two division winners in the AL and NL receive byes into the divisional round, where they await the winners of the Wild Card round.