He still shows a lot of promise. I can also see a breakout type year in Frisco.

He gets my vote.

As in Neil Ramirez walked 4 batters more per nine innings more than Wilfredo Boscan last year.

I love NeRa’s big old honking stuff, but wildness in pitching prospects scares the shit out of me.

Best case, it seems like he could be a Wang or Webb type. I like that.

 But Ramirez really, really intrigues me. His numbers were better and overall his stuff definitely seems electric. He’s always gonna be a guy who Ks alot of batters, An arm like, even when it falters, has value in the pen at least.

I cant wait to see what he does at clinton

I think all of them are at or above expectations a year into it. Its hard for the 2008 guys to jump any of them, due to both name recognition and performance to date. I think Ross and Murphy would have us all giddy if the Rangers didn’t have all those kids from the year before.

I don’t even know who maddog is supposed to be.

I’ve been saying this since I first voted for him six places ago. He has no apparent weaknesses.

Linky.

You have to be careful when a kid with polish beyond his year but questionable top end stuff dominates in the low levels. Scouting reports can be just as/more important in projecting kids this young.

but isn’t it possible that your method is biased towards Boscon? Every other player on that list is in a full season league, playing against guys who’ve all passed one or two filters in professional baseball. Boscan did well, but he did well against a bunch of players that will likely never see a major league stadium unless they buy a ticket like you and me.

In addition, you’re emphasizing other guys’ flaws while failing to highlight the areas where they are far better than Boscan. This is a selective appraoch that helps prove a point (that he is the Scotty Pippen of Low-A), but is somewhat manipulative of the numbers. For example, he doesn’t walk anyone, so his WHIP tells you about one guy an inning is getting a hit. If one Low-A hitter an inning can get a hit, what happens when he faces tougher competition? Cahill is walking 3 guys a game yet has a 0.95 WHIP in an offensive league – that means he’s freakin’ hard to hit.

I’m not going far out onto a limb by saying that I’d far rather have most any of those guys on that list than Boscan. Those other guys, while they aren’t perfect, have aspects of their games that excel and have the potential to be great. Some of those aspects show up in numbers, others only in scouting reports. But only great minor leaguers get to be major leaguers. Boscan has shown that he doesn’t have many major flaws, but he has to show that he can be great before he should be considered among the best prospects in baseball.

He could be our Pippen to our Holland/Feliz/Main/Perez’s Jordan….oh, i like that

a complete pitcher to me.

Fills out my top 10. I’ve been voting for him for awhile now.

Yah, I just needed some more position players to throw on there cause it was getting a little pathetic. It was like 4 position players and then 17 pitchers. Telis and Whittleman came on just for the hell of it. Clark Murphy probably next unless someone wants to make a case for another position player who needs to be on first. .

Although I will say this about Whittleman: The guy has got great big thick veiny juicy plate discipline skills. The contact and the power aren’t there, and neither is the defense… but I’m a sucker for plate discipline. A 15+% BB rate means you get at least one more year of watching by Mr. Thedir K. Atron. I have very little hope but I haven’t completely given up yet. He’s prolly in the 40’s for me.

There are probably 10-15 of us here (including Jamey, et al) who go to Frisco games fairly regularly. If you didn’t read the fan posts much during the 08 season, you’ll see next year that there are a lot of personal observations posted.

That Adam will post a Game Day Thread for the Rangers, and then someone else will post a minor league thread which someone will give updates or analysis from the games in the minors. Lots of Frisco updates usually come in these

i love the fact that we took all these pitchers early on in the draft, we got 7 first round or compensatory pick pitchers in our system… at least i think thats the right number…