OAKLAND, Calif. -- There are a number of ways to parse up Rougned Odor's performance this season and almost none of them shed a positive light on his year.

One, however, may: Odor remains in position to play every one of the Rangers' 162 games this season.

There is something to be said for durability and availability.

"It means you are committed to playing every day and that means a lot," said Adrian Beltre, who has played the 22nd most games in MLB history (2,810) and still never played 162 in a season. "It means you have shown up every day. It means you had to play through some injury. It's something, that if it happens, he should be proud of."

Since the Rangers moved to Texas in 1972, there have been only nine occasions in which a player appeared in all 162 games. The last to accomplish it: Michael Young in 2006. Last year, only three players in the majors accomplished it: Kansas City's Alcides Escobar, Houston's George Springer and Baltimore's Jonathan Schoop.

Odor, 23, would also be one of the youngest players to ever accomplish the feat. There have been only 14 previous seasons of a player 23 or younger played in all 162 games of a season before his 24th birthday. Baltimore's Manny Machado, in 2015, was the last to do it.

"It would mean a lot because it was my goal," said Odor, who has played the last week with a sprained ankle and also slightly jammed his shoulder diving for a ball Friday. "I wanted to play every single game, no matter how I felt or how I was doing. In my family, we were taught, you may not feel 100 percent every day, but you can give 100 percent of what you have. I've always felt this way."

Odor is on pace for a bunch of ugly offensive numbers that will cast a pall over his performance this year. On Friday, he stranded six runners to move into second in the AL in the category of most runners left on base (256), 10 behind Albert Pujols. He is going to have the lowest OPS (it was .654 entering Saturday) ever for a 30-homer season.

And, yes, with a .206 batting average entering play Saturday, he could end up with the lowest batting average ever by a player to appear in all 162. Bobby Knoop of the Los Angeles Angels hit .216 in 1964, currently the lowest number on record.

Playing in 162, though, would allow Odor to look back on the season and say something positive came from it, even if the performance was sub-par.

"He's working hard," said shorstsop Elvis Andrus. "And as long as you work hard, play the game hard and give it all, that's the kind of teammate you want around. It's been a tough year for him, but he is going to learn from it."