2012 Texas Rangers season

The 2012 Texas Rangers season was the 52nd season in the overall history of the franchise and the 41st since the team relocated to Arlington, Texas. The Rangers entered the season as the two-time defending champions of the American League and the American League West. They led the division for most of the season and had a 13-game lead on June 30, but faltered down the stretch. They finished 93–69, but were swept in the last series of the season by the Oakland Athletics and wound up second to the Athletics in the division. They then lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the ALWC Game and were eliminated from the playoffs.

Offseason

Transactions

October 31, 2011: The team exercised its club options on Colby Lewis and Yoshinori Tateyama, while also announcing that the entire coaching staff would return for 2012.
November 2, 2011: RHP Darren O'Day was claimed on waivers by the Baltimore Orioles
November 21, 2011: The club signed RHP Joe Nathan to a two-year $14.5 million deal with an option for a third year. He will be the team's closer and subsequently bump RHP Neftalí Feliz into the starting rotation. Nathan leaves the Minnesota Twins after becoming the all-time saves leader for the franchise over nine seasons with the club.
December 1, 2011: Taylor Teagarden was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league RHP Randy Henry and a player to be named later. On December 8, 2011, the player was identified as minor league 2B Greg Miclat.
December 19, 2011: The team won the negotiating rights to Japanese RHP Yu Darvish for $51.7 million through the Posting system. The Rangers will have 30 days to negotiate a contract with Darvish, if no agreement is reached, then the posting fee is returned to the club and Darvish will return to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters for the 2012 season.
December 21, 2011: C Luis Martinez acquired from the San Diego Padres for minor league RHP Ryan Kelly. Martinez will be put on the 40-man roster.
January 5, 2012: The Rangers traded infielder Chad Tracy to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for RHP Greg Reynolds. Reynolds was assigned to Triple A Round Rock.
January 18, 2012: The Rangers and Japanese RHP Yu Darvish agreed on a six-year, $60 million contract. The contract was signed 15 minutes before a 4:00pm CST deadline. Yu was formally introduced to the organization with a press conference on January 20.

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; BB = Walks; AVG = Batting average; SLG = Slugging average

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	AVG	SLG
Ian Kinsler	157	655	105	168	42	5	19	72	21	60	.256	.423
Elvis Andrus	158	629	85	180	31	9	3	62	21	57	.286	.378
Michael Young	156	611	79	169	27	3	8	67	2	33	.277	.370
Adrián Beltré	156	604	95	194	33	2	36	102	1	36	.321	.561
Nelson Cruz	159	585	86	152	45	0	24	90	8	48	.260	.460
Josh Hamilton	148	562	103	160	31	2	43	128	7	60	.285	.577
David Murphy	147	457	65	139	29	3	15	61	10	54	.304	.479
Mike Napoli	108	352	53	80	9	2	24	56	1	56	.227	.469
Mitch Moreland	114	327	41	90	18	0	15	50	1	23	.275	.468
Craig Gentry	121	240	31	73	12	3	1	26	13	14	.304	.392
Yorvit Torrealba	49	161	16	38	8	0	3	12	1	14	.236	.342
Geovany Soto	47	148	19	29	6	0	5	25	1	11	.196	.338
Brandon Snyder	40	65	11	18	2	0	3	9	0	3	.277	.446
Alberto González	24	54	7	13	2	1	0	4	0	0	.241	.315
Leonys Martín	24	46	6	8	5	2	0	6	3	4	.174	.370
Mike Olt	16	33	2	5	1	0	0	5	1	5	.152	.182
Luis Martinez	10	18	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.111
Jurickson Profar	9	17	2	3	2	0	1	2	0	0	.176	.471
Luis Hernández	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Pitcher totals	162	24	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	.208	.208
Team totals	162	5590	808	1526	303	32	200	780	91	478	.273	.446

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Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Matt Harrison	18	11	3.29	32	32	0	213.1	210	82	78	59	133
Yu Darvish	16	9	3.90	29	29	0	191.1	156	89	83	89	221
Derek Holland	12	7	4.67	29	27	0	175.1	162	100	91	52	145
Scott Feldman	6	11	5.09	29	21	0	123.2	139	79	70	32	96
Colby Lewis	6	6	3.43	16	16	0	105.0	99	48	40	14	93
Ryan Dempster	7	3	5.09	12	12	0	69.0	74	43	39	25	70
Alexi Ogando	2	0	3.27	58	1	3	66.0	49	26	24	17	66
Robbie Ross Jr.	6	0	2.22	58	0	0	65.0	55	21	16	23	47
Joe Nathan	3	5	2.80	66	0	37	64.1	55	23	20	13	78
Roy Oswalt	4	3	5.80	17	9	0	59.0	79	41	38	11	59
Mike Adams	5	3	3.27	61	0	1	52.1	56	21	19	17	45
Neftalí Feliz	3	1	3.16	8	7	0	42.2	28	15	15	13	28
Mark Lowe	0	2	3.43	36	0	0	39.1	35	15	15	13	28
Martín Pérez	1	4	5.45	12	6	0	38.0	47	26	23	15	25
Koji Uehara	0	0	1.75	37	0	1	36.0	20	7	7	3	43
Michael Kirkman	1	2	3.82	28	0	0	35.1	24	16	15	17	38
Tanner Scheppers	1	1	4.45	39	0	1	32.1	47	18	16	9	30
Yoshinori Tateyama	1	0	9.00	14	0	0	17.0	18	19	17	6	18
Justin Grimm	1	1	9.00	5	2	0	14.0	22	14	14	3	13
Wilmer Font	0	0	9.00	3	0	0	2.0	0	2	2	4	1
Craig Gentry	0	0	18.00	1	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	1	0
Team totals	93	69	3.99	162	162	43	1442.0	1378	707	639	446	1286

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Farm system

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