What’s the question of durability with Feliz? He’s said to have an effortless delivery. Holland he incorrectly drew a conclusion based on a ranking that was from single A and I believe Manuel said that he’d been much higher on the AA list of prospects. Also, the comment on Perez was simply praise rather then diminishing Holland’s value.

but its seeing Borbon ranked so far ahead of him, and especially Ramirez being so far down on the list and beneath Borbon I think is ridiculous.

or he was recently kicked in the head by a horse.

And I like Vallejo a lot.

and I felt that way about Duran a year ago…but I find a guy with top-end speed and good defense at 2B to be pretty valuable, and I think if Duran had 2B open in the majors he’d be on his way to proving himself worthy of a prior fringe top 100 ranking

but I’m no expert

I think Bowden has somehow become underrated.

There was a lot more buzz about him at this point last season than there was about Holland. Holland came out of nowhere.

how he didn’t have Holland in his original top 50 at all. He pretty much put Holland there because he didn’t want to get that much crap for not having Holland as a top 50 prospect. And his reasoning for not having Holland higher is because Manuel said he is a really big Perez fan and because BA ranked him as the number 9 prospect in the Midwest league, effectively ignoring his Cal and Texas League performance.

I mean if you’re ranking Rangers prospects and somebody puts, let’s say Davis Stoneburner ahead of Justin Smoak, that’s bizarre. But there’s a lot of criteria that goes into evaluating prospects (age, size, scouting reports, current and historical stats, level of competition, durability, etc.) and those points of comparison can’t necessarily be viewed separately from one another. It seems some people have a hard time understanding how other people judgments don’t conform to their own.

That being said, I think RedSoxFaithful made a pretty good list. If people on this board are spending hours weekly looking over the Rangers’ Minor League System, imagine trying to do a comprehensive list regarding all 30 teams, especially when baseball is going on almost all the time, and at certain points not all players are playing. In fact, some players this guy is having to evaluate might not have played their first game professionally.

As for my opinion, of the 101 guys this list has, I’d have kicked somebody off and put Michael Main in his place. While I don’t know enough about other teams’ minor league systems, I know that at the very least I’d have Main ahead of fellow Texas Delegation Representatives Julio Borbon (#79) and Max Ramirez (#82). But I keep in mind that there’s a distinct possibility that both Borbon and Ramirez might turn out to be very good players and Michael Main doesn’t become the top-tier starting pitcher that many of us are expecting him to be.

As far as the Neftali Feliz ranked at 18 and Derek Holland at 33, there’s some question about the discrepancy there. But when you think about it, there’s 14 guys between the two on this list; that’s about 0.47 prospects per team. If you think they are neck-and-neck, I would think it possible that there are 14 other prospects of similar caliber in all of baseball. It could be that the talent level between the prospects ranked 18-33 is simply hard to differentiate. Then again, maybe using using certain criteria, it’s not quite neck-and-neck between Feliz and Holland, and there’s room for several prospects between the two.

That’s like saying, save being able to hit, Drew Meyer is a lot like Chase Utley.