1. Ya, i think we do, but at the same time, its hard not to get excited with some of these guys that we got in there.
2. I highly doubt that; honestly, I think its more of us overvaluing our prospects than under valuing other players.
3. In my opinion, yes it does. I guess the main example would be the Yankees last year with Hughes and Kennedy and not being able to get a trade.

i think its natural for a team’s fans to overvalue organazational prospect’s especially if the team’s success is highly dependent on them (i.e. when youre in rebuilding mode). i dont think we necessarily undervalue other team’s players, except in the sense that we value them less favorably comapred to our own.
if anything, id say the rangers have had a recent history of undervaluing our own prospects in trades, moslty for players who were either busts or ended up being rather mediocre, temporary solutions.

There is a tendency to critique players on either their best or worst performances, when their “component” value to a team is something in between. Heh, it doesn’t make one a better analyst to tend on either the upper or lower boundary of “value”. Value is the result of agreement between buyer and seller, thus fuel for fan disagreement with their own GM at times (or joyful shock as in the case of the Teixeira return).

I’d just hope it’s kept in mind that the objective in team building is overall competence, and consequent winning, not individual and separate fantasizing over trades or signing deals.

i dont think its just us valuing our prospects, every team values our prospects, for once we actually have some of the best in baseball. the Drays overvalued their prospects for years, and it looks like it could build them a dynasty. when you arent that close to competing for a WS or even a pennant and you have a top system in baseball, why on earth would you move young hgihly prized talent for other players who are known quantities when you are so far away from winning it all.

just about the stupidest thing the rangers could do at this moment is to trade a lump of prospects for any1 player at all. there are simply too many holes on the 25 man to compete for any sort of title this year or next year. maybe the following year it will all start to come together. till then you dont fill holes on a team that isnt competitive.

I don’t think most fans know how to evaluate talent one way or the other. Look at Mr. Edinson Volquez, for example. It wasn’t long ago that a lot of people here thought he wouldn’t amount to much, and they actually saw him pitch. For all these guys we haven’t seen play we really have no idea. It’s very hard to say what a player’s worth by looking at the raw numbers.

All we see are names bandied about. Line scores flying through the internets. Now and then a scouting report. What’s important is a player’s talent: his swing or the movement, velocity, and control of his pitches. And you can’t tell a lot about that when you’re reading box scores because we’re thinking about what they might be able to do against MLB players and these numbers are being put up against vastly inferior competition. To get a good idea about what a player’s capabilities are, you have to watch him over a period of time. In person.