Last season was washed out by injuries and funky underperformance, but the vibes are looking recalibrated for the 2025 Texas Rangers. Bruce Bochy’s squad opened with solid odds to top the AL West (+170 on BetMGM). Things move faster than ever in this sport, but the Rangers’ November triumph really wasn’t too long ago:
THE TEXAS RANGERS ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS pic.twitter.com/KTIL0khsi1
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) November 2, 2023
The clubhouse has a cool mix of established stars in their 30s (Corey Seager, Jacob deGrom, Marcus Semien, Adolis García) and budding prospects with national intrigue (Wyatt Langford, Kumar Rocker, Jack Leiter). Watching this team should be a good time, but finding the games and navigating streaming rules has never been more needlessly complicated. Here’s our guide to everything RSNs, RASN, MLB.TV and national TV.
How to stream regional Texas Rangers broadcasts in-market
Fubo (try for free)
Fubo is a cable-cutter streaming platform that provides local and national channels with add-on sports packages. Any game on Rangers Sports Network, ESPN, Fox, or MLB Network can be streamed on Fubo (more on those below). TBS games cannot.
What you need to watch these games: The “pro” plan starts at $84.99 monthly, with an extra charge for 4K ultra-HD. For more, there is the MLB.TV add-on, which streams every out-of-market game for $29.99 a month, and the Sports Lite package (with MLB Network) for $9.99 a month.
Rangers Sports Network (RASN)
This is the regional sports network (RSN) that has exclusive rights to all Rangers baseball that isn’t nationally televised. I would like to acknowledge the confusion caused by this particular RSN being called RASN.
Rangers Sports Network is a new thing as of this season. Until the end of 2024, local games were on FanDuel Sports Network Southwest (previously Fox Sports Southwest and Bally Sports Southwest). RASN is an in-house broadcast endeavor owned by the Rangers. Dave Raymond does play-by-play. He certainly gets up for a home run call:
Here’s The Athletic’s Levi Weaver on his wild ascent:
“If you don’t know Dave Raymond, a lot of this story is going to sound made-up. A small-town Nebraska kid joins the Stanford track team as a long-jumper, does stand-up comedy in his spare time, then lives in his car as a squatter on campus for six months? He finally gets a broadcasting job but quits before the first game, then is later traded for a blind radio announcer, gets a break because he shares a name with the original Phillie Phanatic? What does he do in the offseason? Write financial articles that are credited with popping the internet bubble? Next, you’re going to tell me he and his wife own a nanny and tutoring business. And now he’s the TV voice of the Texas Rangers?”
What you need to watch these games: Fubo, DirecTV Stream (starting $80-90 monthly), Victory+ ($140 purchase includes two game tickets)
Victory+
This is the new subscription service/app hosting Rangers games now. Unlike the aforementioned services, Victory+ doesn’t have other live channels: just Rangers baseball and Dallas Stars hockey. The “early access” season pass is $100 but listed as sold out on Victory’s website. Now, for $140, you get the regional Rangers games and two tickets to the ballpark. Are we talking Tuesday night versus the Athletics, or a Friday-Saturday-Sunday Astros situation? Let us know if you find out.
How to watch the regional broadcasts on cable or satellite
What you need to watch these games: A carrier that has Rangers Sports Network.
All RASN broadcasts can be found on the following providers:
- Astound
- AT&T U-Verse
- DirecTV
- GEUS
- Spectrum
- Vyve Broadband
GEUS and Vyve are brand-new additions to that list of distributors.
Over-The-Air on Fridays
For the first time since 2014, select Rangers matchups will be available over-the-air. Bring out the rabbit ears! You’ll get a minimum of 15 terrestrial TV games with an antenna or other free-to-air equipment. The channel will depend on your market, of course. Here’s a full list for the region, which includes not only Texas but parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
How to watch the regional broadcasts out-of-market
MLB Network airs almost 300 local broadcasts for national audiences, so out-of-towners will find some Rangers games there. Additionally, MLB Network offers 26 unique, produced-in-house “showcase” games that are not subject to local blackouts.
The MLB.TV package gives you access to all regular-season games (excluding national games and in-market games for your region). For a one-time cost of $150, you’ll have access to all games and teams on MLB.TV. Fubo has an MLB.TV add-on for $29.99 a month.
What you need to watch these games: MLB Network for select games or MLB.TV for all of them
How to watch the national TV games
ESPN
The league has partnered with ESPN since 1990; that ends this fall. Yup, the purveyors of the iconic music are indeed opting out of their remaining baseball broadcasts. For this season, you’ll still find select primetime Rangers matchups here. Karl Ravech and Jon Sciambi (regional voice of the Chicago Cubs) are usually on the mic, alongside five-time World Series winner David Cone and former utility hitter Eduardo Pérez. Generational baseball narrator Joe Buck returned to the booth for a special Opening Day affair, but he’s sticking with football now. For ESPN, think Sundays, especially “Sunday Night Baseball.”
Texas’s first-half schedule includes one ESPN spot: Sunday, July 6, at the ever-interesting San Diego Padres, which will feature Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill at the plate. The second-half slate will be announced later.
Fox/FS1
Fox is where you’ll hear Joe Davis (voice of the Dodgers), Jason Benetti (Tigers) or Adam Amin (NBA’s Chicago Bulls) on the call. Retired Silver Slugger catcher A.J. Pierzynski, Cardinals bellwether Adam Wainwright, 1992 Rookie of the Year Eric Karros, and Dontrelle Willis (aka the D-Train!) rotate in the booth. Three Hall-of-Famers are on this network: Derek Jeter and David Ortiz during the pregame and John Smoltz for color commentary. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal can be seen reporting from the field, too. Fox usually has a Saturday spot.
Our protagonists here have a few upcoming games, and Fox has already rolled out its full TV schedule. Texas hosts the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, April 19, a cool matchup between the last two World Series champs. The Rangers get another look one week later (April 26), visiting the San Francisco Giants in The Bay. Texas will be on FS1 Saturday, June 21, tangling with the Pirates in Pittsburgh and will host the division-rival Seattle Mariners on FS1 the following Saturday (June 28). The “Lone Star Showdown” versus the intrastate Houston Astros gets full Fox treatment on Saturday, July 12, and they’ll welcome Fox and the Philadelphia Phillies again on Saturday, Aug. 9.
TBS
This is the Tuesday action, with Brian Anderson (Brewers) and Ron Darling (Mets) as the mainstays. It’s a stacked pre-postgame show: all-time great Pedro Martínez, 2007 NL MVP Jimmy Rollins and three-time All-Star Curtis Granderson. TBS games can also be streamed on Max. The playoff broadcasts add decorated former player and manager Dusty Baker in the studio. Bob Costas was on the mic here before his retirement last fall. No Rangers games have been announced on TBS yet.
Roku
The purple metropolis now has “MLB Sunday Leadoff” games free from blackout restrictions. Roku will have Rangers-Astros on Sunday, May 18, and Rangers-Cardinals on Sunday, June 1, both live from Globe Life Field.
Apple TV+
Like the Roku situation, you’ll be able to stream more baseball games from your smart TV’s home base. Unlike Roku, though, the Apple TV+ games are regionally blacked out. Alex Faust (also of NHL and Jeopardy fame) is on these calls, as is Wayne Randazzo (Angels). The Rangers will be on Apple two separate Fridays: April 25 (at San Francisco) and May 16 (hosting Houston).
For national MLB games in general, think:
- TBS on Tuesdays
- Apple TV+ on Fridays
- Fox and FS1 on Saturdays
- Roku on Sunday mornings
- ESPN with “Sunday Night Baseball”
- MLB Network most days
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