Considering they lost the opener to the Phillies 14 – 10, the makeshift Pitching Staff has performed well in the last 15 games, authoring 4 Shutouts as a collective staff. Texas is one of 8 teams also not be blanked on the offensive side of the table. Not bad considering Prince Fielder just has 1 HR, J.P. Arencibia is hitting under .100 – and Adrian Beltre is still on the DL. The Rangers are 9 – 7 – and now 2nd in the AL West.

By Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): Follow @chuckbooth3024

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In this post, which we are also going to feature in a Subpage at the site called ‘Shutout Survivor’, we will document who wins this race for all 30 MLB Teams, meaning we will state the date a teams gets Shutout for the 1st time of the year.

After the games on Apr.17th, there are 12 teams taken out of this competition.  The AL still has 5 teams remaining in this and the NL has 3  The NL Central and AL East are completely eliminated as well.

Should be a great contest to see who can be the last team to score zero runs in a game,

The White Sox teams offense has been pretty good so far, with Jose Abreu, Alexei Ramirez and Adam Eaton leading the way. In a competitive AL Central, in which teams are within 1.5 Games of each other. Cleveland and Minnesota also have not been blanked – even though they are prime candidates to have the dubious honor done to them.

AL East

New York – Eliminated Apr.5

Toronto – Eliminated Apr.17

Boston – Eliminated Apr.6

Baltimore – Eliminated Apr.11

Tampa Bay – Eliminated Apr.2

AL Central

Detroit – Eliminated – Apr.11

Kansas City – Eliminated Apr 8th

Minnesota –

Chicago White Sox –

Cleveland Indians –

AL West

Oakland – Eliminated Mar.31st

Texas –

LA Angels –

Seattle – Eliminated Apr.09

Houston – Eliminated Apr.11

NL

NL East

Atlanta – Eliminated Mar.31st

Washington – Eliminated Apr.17

NY Mets –

Miami Marlins – Eliminated Apr.08

Philadelphia Phillies – Eliminated Apr.16

NL Central

St. Louis Cardinals – Eliminated Apr.02

Cincinnati Reds – Eliminated Mar.31

Milwaukee Brewers – Eliminated Apr.02

Chicago Cubs – Eliminated Mar.31

Pittsburgh Pirates – Eliminated Apr.16

NL West

LA Dodgers –

SF Giants – Eliminated Apr.12

Arizona Diamondbacks – Eliminated Apr.02

San Diego Padres – Eliminated Apr.05

Colorado Rockies –

The Mets have avoided being bageled by another team so far – despite having a less than stellar lineup from 1 – 9 on any given day. The results are a 8 – 7 start to the year. Only the Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado Rockies represent the only two other NL teams, not to have scored 0 runs in a game thus far in 2014.

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