Another Ranger top 20 prospect list
Camden Report is doing top 20 prospect lists for each organization, and has the Ranger list up now...
Some things folks will agree with, some things folks won't (like Kasey Kiker not making the top 20), but I figured it is at least worth checking out...
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Strange
They used 2008 as pluses for some and then ignored 2008 for others. Cristian Santana and Fabio Castillo in the top 20? Wow.
by Andy Seiler on
Nov 20, 2008 2:48 PM CST
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My thoughts, too
Odd to have Mayberry and those two ahead of Kiker and some others.
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by t ball on
Nov 20, 2008 2:57 PM CST
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See, I told you Hurley would be top 10
but yeah, those rankings suck.
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by Gdawg on
Nov 20, 2008 2:50 PM CST
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why do they suck?
top 10 looks pretty good…only obvious omission is Main, but, looks good to me…
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by Longhorn on
Nov 20, 2008 2:53 PM CST
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The top 10 isn't too good
and the rest is worse. Its not the omissions in the top 10 that bug me as much as just the ranking of each player.
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by Gdawg on
Nov 20, 2008 4:07 PM CST
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definitely
enjoyed the read, but yea, i think id have to say some of it was off from what alot of us think. Then again, its always nice to hear anothers opinion
by blalock84 on
Nov 20, 2008 3:04 PM CST
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Future RP - Blake Beaven
Wow…never seen that coming
Just a very weird list. Andrus at 2? Smoak 5? Main not in top 10?
Guess that just shows how stacked our minor league talent is
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by Smoak Some on
Nov 20, 2008 3:04 PM CST
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He does raise any interesting
question. Which minor league SP is likely to be switched to a reliever in order to reach (and help) the Ranger’s bullpen?
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by RangerMad on
Nov 20, 2008 3:07 PM CST
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This is a question I would love to be answered on this board
Who do we move from starter to bullpen?
First glance Diamond, Hunter, Feldman, Kiker, Font, Castillo, Phillips, and some others. Its a tough decision
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by Smoak Some on
Nov 20, 2008 3:36 PM CST
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Feldman
You’d move him back to the bullpen already?
by Andy Seiler on
Nov 20, 2008 3:37 PM CST
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I just think hes better suited for it
I mean, we overworked his arm last year, so there are concerned about how it could hold out. But then again, I’m only talking about the long run. I don’t put him in the bullpen now. Maybe here in like 2-3 years he’ll be better suited in there
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by Smoak Some on
Nov 20, 2008 3:41 PM CST
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And also...
I’m one of those guys that when you bring a pitcher up from the minors, it would be best to stick them in the bullpen (like what TB did with Price this year) and just get use to the majors. If it seems like that pitcher is better suited for the pen then as a starter, than leave him in there.
But then again, this is a good problem that we have
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by Smoak Some on
Nov 20, 2008 3:45 PM CST
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Main not in the top ten buggs the shit out of me.
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by NYTXFAN on
Nov 20, 2008 4:38 PM CST
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Prospect Knowledge
This goes to show you that people know mostly only about their own prospects. We all know who the major ones are outside of the Ranger organization, but we don’t have the expertise. That is why Mariner fans have Michael Saunders as a possible #1 organizational prospect, and I think he’s barely a top 5 for them.
by Andy Seiler on
Nov 20, 2008 3:08 PM CST
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Wow. . .
. . . I was JUST responding to LSJ commenting that having Teagarden 4th or 5th and/or ahead of Max Ramirez is outrageous and how he thinks no one argues that he could be special.
Though my reasoning was largely that the people I’ve come to respect think such, and I actually don’t know anything about Camden Depot.
by philkid3 on
Nov 20, 2008 3:12 PM CST
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"Number 3 Starter"...
I’ve never been a big fan of classifying starting pitchers using the 1-through-5 system. There’s really not much substance to it. I mean are there 30 pitchers in baseball who are “Number One” Pitchers? If not, should the bar be lowered? How much better is a “Number 3” over a “Number4?” What ERA correlates to a “Number 2?” How about WHIP? FIP?
And now that I’m reading so many prospect reports where some player is projected to be, or has the potential to be, a “Number 3” Starter, I’m left believing that a “Number 3” is just code for “I don’t want to look foolish if he turns out to be really good or really bad.” On this list, there was one player who projected as a “Number 1” (Neftali Feliz), one who projected as a “Number 2” (Derek Holland), six were projected “Number 3’s” (Martin Perez, Eric Hurley, Wilfredo Boscan, Neil Ramirez, Michael Main and Robbie Ross), and two whose future were likely as a “Number 4” (Joe Wieland and Fabio Castillo).
It seems that there should be just as many guys who project as “Number 2’s” as there are who project as “Number 3’s” in the league. Otherwise, a reassessment of the criteria used in the valuing what calibera pitcher is or can become. That is, if there were criteria in the first place.
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by YourNameHere on
Nov 21, 2008 3:52 AM CST
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Nice read, overall.
Good to see other’s POV on the Rangers prospects. I may not agree with the rankings, but perhaps we are too close to the sitchu to make totally rational judgments.
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by Rodney on
Nov 21, 2008 10:05 AM CST
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