Entering the 2024 season, the Texas Rangers had the highest expectations coming into a season in franchise history.

As we all know by now, that team did not live up to those expectations, finishing just 78-84 and missing the postseason.

Following the year’s end, Rangers President of Baseball Operations Chris Young didn’t go out and completely revamp the lineup.

Instead, he highlighted the importance of the players already on his roster bouncing back. “That’s a bigger upgrade right there that we can get anywhere else in the industry,” Young said.

Knowing the need to bounce back, Adolis Garcia, Jonah Heim, and Leody Taveras all stayed in the Metroplex this offseason to put themselves in a position to improve in 2025.

It’s not always that the results of your offseason work start to come through on Opening Weekend, but they certainly did for the Rangers’ bounce-back trio.

After sitting out on Opening Day, Heim made his season debut on Friday night and ripped two home runs in his first two at-bats of the season.

“He’s been swinging better; he’s taken that into the game,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said after the game.

Taveras didn’t have the power stroke that Heim showcased on Opening Weekend; in fact, it was sort of the opposite.

After laying down a bunt hit in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 4-3 win, Taveras swiped second base and eventually scored on a Marcus Semien single.

Small ball was the name of Taveras’ game over the weekend as he would steal two bases over the weekend.

Garcia put forth an effort that is quite the opposite of small ball, breaking out during the last two games of the series.

In the first inning on Saturday, Garcia drove a ball into the ball just out of the reach of Sox left fielder Kristian Campbell to score the game’s first two runs.

During his very next at bat, Garcia launched his first home run of the season deep out to left field.

However, that shot didn’t compare to the one that he hit on Sunday afternoon as with the game tied in the sixth inning, Garcia blasted what would be the game-winning hit into the second deck in left field.

Obviously, it’s early and four games is certainly no sample size but if the Rangers can get bounce back production from these three, this lineup will be scary good.