If you haven’t by now, you should start with yesterday’s article about the sixth- through tenth-best prospects in the Rangers system. Now let’s get into the cream of the crop. These guys all project to be MLB regulars or better, including a few with relatively high probabilities at providing impact on an MLB roster. Without […]
Top Ten Rangers Prospect Rankings: #s 6-10
Prospect lists aren’t inherently the most useful of tools due to their subjective nature at heart. A mentor once described the process as, “forming our subjective thoughts about a player into an objective scale”, which stuck with me. As scouting grades were designed as an objective scale where each grade had an objective meaning, it’s […]
Scouting Report: Leody Taveras
It’s quite possible that the industry is underrating Leody Taveras. At first that sounds a bit silly; how can you underrate the consensus number one prospect in the Rangers’ system? Due to Leody not “breaking out” yet, I hypothesize that the large scouting orgs are being cautious when it comes to Leody’s tools and skill […]
Scouting Report: Ronald Guzman
It seems like Ronald Guzman has been around forever. He was acquired by the Rangers during the same international signing period as Nomar Mazara, but didn’t break out offensively the same way that Mazara did. The 6’5” 245-pound first baseman was expected to develop game power that would catch up to a more advanced hit […]
Winter Meetings Day Five: Rule Five.
“I have forgotten the sun,” one team official texted yesterday from a secluded suite high above the sprawling central Florida complex “where dreams come true”. So have the rest of us—Florida has spent the Winter Meetings trying to freeze us into skepticism about its nickname. Now it is Thursday morning. Team officials and media and […]
Nice to Meet You: Isiah Kiner-Falefa
There are utility players who can fill multiple positions in times where a starter can’t make a start, there are super utility guys who can provide impact while moving around the diamond a bit, and then there’s what the Rangers have: Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Kiner-Falefa doesn’t have many loud tools, but he does something that no […]