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 […]
Cold Stove: why the Rangers’ off-season has been so quiet (or has it?)
You might not have noticed the relative lack of content here in the Rangers section of the site. After all, we just careened headlong through the road-trips-and-flight-delays portion of the holiday season, and now you’re unpacking your gifts and begging the kids to get their Lego Foot Destruction blocks off the floor. But the last […]
9 Stories to Look Forward to in 2018
We’re getting ahead of ourselves, of course. It’s not yet Christmas, and I’m already pulling on the bit a little, nudging my head towards green grass and white lines and cracking bats and popping mitts. The free agent market hasn’t even fully shaken out, and there’s every chance that the next week renders this list […]
What Happens When Delino DeShields Swings More?
As we sat at the table and took questions—first from the crowd, and then from Ben Rogers, who was moderating the Newberg Report Book Release night—Delino DeShields leaned into the microphone and spoke in his usual soft tone: “Center field, left field, second base, first base, I don’t care (…) I just want to play.” […]
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 […]