Rangers top ten talents 25 and under

As most of you know, Kevin Goldstein in the process of rolling out his top 11 lists on Baseball Prospectus.  While it will be interesting to see who Goldstein comes up with as the Rangers top 11 prospects, we've already put in our two cents worth out to number 17 so there isn't much to discuss about that until the list actually comes out.  However, accompanying the top 11 lists, Goldstein also does a "top ten talents 25 or under list for each team, listing the 10 best talents in the organization, at the major or minor league level, born before 4/1/84.  

The top four on the Rangers prospect list (Feliz, Smoak, Perez and Scheppers seem like shoo-ins to be among the top 10, as do Holland, Andrus and Borbon. 

That leaves three spots, and a whole bunch of candidates.  Main, Ross and Font are the next on the community list--or you could take the "talent label" as literally as possible and reach down a bit to make a case for Profar or Beltre.  But, on the 40 man roster, you've still got Chris Davis, Salty, Tommy Hunter, Matt Harrison, Max Ramirez and Eric Hurley who meet that age qualification.  That's a lot of deserving guys.  My picks for the last 3 spots are Davis, Hunter and Main.  Interested to hear other takes on this, but any way you finish off the Rangers list, I expect that it compares well with any major league franchise. 

Two that come to mind as possible comparisons are Baltimore topped by Wieters, Tillman, Matusz and Jones and the Oakland A's with Anderson, Cahill, Bailey, Ryan Sweeney, Daric Barton, Chris Carter and Michael Taylor.  While it is hard to argue with Baltimore's top 4 and Oakland's group is very deep, with three guys who are going to be top 25 on most lists in Feliz, Perez, and Smoak, another who will be high on lists in Scheppers, and a few guys who were high on lists last year and did nothing to prove that was a bad idea (Holland, Andrus, Borbon) its easy to feel good about how the Rangers rank by this measure in comparison to anyone.

Now if we could only come up with a moderately talented 30-something year old dh.