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Top 31 Flavors of Ranger Draft Picks

Adam's recent tweets got me interested in the history of Rangers draft picks. I was a little curious to see all the top picks over the history of the franchise. Here are the 31 best Ranger Draft picks, sorted by Baseball-Reference WAR. The cutoff I used was 10 Career WAR.

Edit: The table is now after the jump, to conserve front page space

Rank Year Rnd Pos WAR ▾
1 1986 1 Kevin Brown RHP 64
2 1982 39 Kenny Rogers LHP 46.3
3 2001 1 Mark Teixeira 3B 36.7
4 1972 8 Jim Sundberg C 35.1
5 1972 25 Mike Hargrove 1B 30
6 1996 31 Travis Hafner 3B 21.5
7 1965 1 Joe Coleman RHP 20.3
8 1990 10 Rusty Greer OF 19.8
9 1985 16 Mike Stanley 1B 19.4
10 2003 17 Ian Kinsler SS 19.2
11 1996 10 Doug Davis LHP 18.9
12 1992 1 Rick Helling RHP 18.6
13 1992 24 Rich Aurilia SS 18.5
14 1974 4 Jim Clancy RHP 18.1
15 1981 1 Ron Darling RHP 17.8
16 1986 13 Rey Sanchez SS 17.8
17 1988 3 Darren Oliver LHP 17.4
18 1969 1 Jeff Burroughs OF 17.2
19 2003 1 John Danks LHP 16.9
20 1987 32 Robb Nen RHP 16.6
21 1979 15 Pete O'Brien 1B 16
22 1999 6 Aaron Harang RHP 14.4
23 1982 5 Steve Buechele 2B 13.5
24 1970 5 Rick Waits LHP 13.3
25 1985 1 Bobby Witt RHP 13.1
26 1998 1 Carlos Pena 1B 12.9
27 1994 3 Scott Podsednik OF 12.3
28 1973 3 Len Barker RHP 12.2
29 1986 2 Roger Pavlik RHP 10.3
30 1995 3 Ryan Dempster RHP 10.3
31 1986 3 Dean Palmer SS 10.1