1986 Texas Rangers season explained

Texas Rangers
Season:	1986
League:	American League
Division:	West
Ballpark:	Arlington Stadium
City:	Arlington, Texas
Owners:	Eddie Chiles
General Managers:	Tom Grieve
Managers:	Bobby Valentine
Television:	KTVT (Bob Carpenter, Steve Busby) HSE (Bob Carpenter, Norm Hitzges, Merle Harmon)
Radio:	WBAP (Eric Nadel, Mark Holtz)

The Texas Rangers 1986 season involved the Rangers finishing second in the American League West with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses.

Michael Stone was President of the Rangers and promoted Tom Grieve to General Manager.

Offseason

November 9, 1985: Chris Welsh was released by the Rangers.^[1]
November 25, 1985: Wayne Tolleson and Dave Schmidt were traded by the Rangers to the Chicago White Sox for Ed Correa, Scott Fletcher and a player to be named later. The White Sox completed the trade by sending José Mota to the Rangers on December 11.^[2]
December 20, 1985: Ellis Valentine was released by the Rangers.^[3]
December 20, 1985: Dickie Noles was released by the Rangers.^[4]

September 13, 1986: Rubén Sierra became the youngest player in history to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in one game. This was accomplished against the Minnesota Twins.
Ed Correa set a club record for most wins by a rookie pitcher.
In his rookie year, Pete Incaviglia tied the club record for most home runs in a season.

June 2, 1986: John Barfield was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 11th round of the 1986 amateur draft. Player signed June 5, 1986.^[5]
June 2, 1986: Wayne Rosenthal was drafted by the Rangers in the 24th round of the 1986 Major League Baseball draft.^[6]
September 30, 1986: Randy Kramer was traded by the Rangers to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jeff Zaske.^[7]

= Indicates team leader

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

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	95	314	83	.264	13	46
1B	156	551	160	.290	23	90
2B	95	289	63	.218	7	41
SS	147	530	159	.300	3	50
3B	153	461	112	.243	18	54
LF	105	380	120	.316	5	51
CF	154	572	152	.266	18	49
RF	153	540	135	.250	30	88
DH	129	464	128	.276	28	94

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

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
113	382	101	.264	16	55
110	236	56	.237	0	15
88	213	61	.286	4	22
68	155	41	.265	12	29
69	137	35	.255	2	18
49	106	23	.217	2	7
46	102	24	.235	1	7
15	30	10	.333	1	1
12	24	10	.417	0	3
13	21	2	.095	0	3
8	13	3	.231	1	2
21	9	1	.111	0	0

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
33	230.1	17	10	3.79	146
32	202.0	12	14	4.23	189
29	172.0	9	15	4.54	87
31	158.0	11	9	5.48	174
27	135.0	7	3	4.33	85
1	5.0	1	0	3.60	4

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	29	63.0	0	2	4.14	28
	9	42.0	2	2	5.36	33

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

G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
73	111.0	10	8	20	2.83	95
80	98.0	8	6	8	3.58	90
58	79.0	2	4	7	2.51	29
37	82.0	5	2	2	3.40	54
21	39.1	1	0	0	5.03	23
19	19.1	1	0	0	4.66	17
6	10.2	0	0	0	5.91	3
5	3.0	1	0	0	3.00	2

1986 Texas Rangers at Baseball Reference
1986 Texas Rangers at Baseball Almanac
Book: Johnson. Lloyd. Wolff. Miles. The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. 3rd. Durham, North Carolina. Baseball America. 2007. 978-1-932391-17-6.