The Texas Rangers didn’t score a run but the Houston Astros scored eleven runs.

We’re all getting a great opportunity to learn the Ship of Theseus thought experiment in real time thanks to our favorite baseball team! If you remove the woefully underproducing players from the 2025 Texas Rangers lineup and replace them with different players, are they still the same 2025 Texas Rangers?

The answer appears to be yes.

It does not seem to matter who they send up there. Despite losing the entire heart of their order to injury in recent weeks, it doesn’t much feel like anyone is actually gone as the replacements have inherited the original group’s uncanny ability to get as many runners on base as possible without scoring any runs.

The issue that has plagued the entire season came about again t

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