I agree, but if they had a decent 4, 5, 6, 7 prospect, pushing everyone else down 4 spots, the system wouldn’t look nearly as awful. Granted, that isn’t going to happen next week, but one nice draft and a couple upside players with impressive 2010 seasons, and the system will look decent.

That probably isn’t true. Both would probably rank ahead of him, but I like Jio a lot.

I guess I did overlook him. He was 24th in the Rangers system last year, and did get a C+ based on a jump in his power in 2008 - 11 HR in 627 PA, to go along with 42 SB. He returned to his previous power numbers, 2 HR in 412 PA, and only had 10 SB in 2009. He did spend most of his time at a new level in AAA (at 22 - he turned 23 in Sept), but also only batted .233 there with a .281 OBP and .307 SLG, with a fairly weak BB/K ratio. He is considered a very good defender, so maybe he has a future as a utility guy. He belongs on the list (I hated putting Clark there anyway), but I don’t think he can be too much higher than 30th. I’ll add him.

He’s the only other international signee I’ve heard anything about really. It seems like he has a good bat, and I think the other candidates to fill out the bottom of the top 40 are mainly guys that just have a prayer to make it as a bench player or middle reliever. I’d rather take my chances with an upside young player. After #36, I’m not too married to anyone making someone else’s top 40 list. It is a thin system.

Bushue really doesn’t have much further to go up in my mind. I think he is behind Seaton and Austin and in the same rough category as the two RP prospects. Whether he is ahead of them or behind them is not really that important.

I like Steele, but I could only see him switched with Gaston. They are roughly the same age, and Gaston had more impressive numbers in the same park this year.

DeLome doesn’t have tremendous upside either. After Steele, I could see a lot of guys shifted around. Probably the 11-16 prospects could be sorted out in the opposite order and it wouldn’t mean that much.

Meyer could have been higher I suppose. I think he has way too many questions around him right now. He could crack the top 20, but it seems to me like he is going to have develop as a good defensive catcher to have a real major league impact. I’m not sold at all.

Ferreira was kind of a guess. I’d love to go ahead and rank him in the top 15, but he is too much of an unknown. He is sort of in the camp of Meyer and Nash, but I’ll give credit to the high draft picks over the decent international guy.

Cespedes I think is a pure relief prospect at this point. I think the same is true for Nevarez. I think they are behind Meszaros, so you could put them as high as 30/31, but I wouldn’t like seeing them ranked in the top 25 or anything.

Lots of things say he can be an impact player. He’s sharp and polished defensively. He’s a good hitter for average with good strike zone judgment. His power exploded in college after he got some experience and while he’s not a slugger, I think his true power output will sit considerably higher than what he showed in AA.

A guy who can be both above-average defensively and above-average offensively for his position (regardless of what that position is) is clearly a potential impact player.

I love Mier but waiting on him to make a good impression with the bat in the Sally League (more scouting-wise than numbers-wise) to rank him really aggressively, doing so right now is just trying to be fashionable IMO. Lyles is a nice prospect but I like him more for his relatively high floor than his upside.

Gervacio can’t be too much lower. I guess you could drop him as low as 10 if you had total faith in the upside guys. I still prefer him to Lo, so 9th would be as low as I could go. Obviously you are very high on Bushue and Steele, so you’d bump him down a couple spots because of that. I want to wait and see on those guys.

Clemens could be lower. I had a hard time placing Clemens, Bogusevic, Manzella, and Trinidad. I think that is the right order, but the whole group could be lowered I suppose. I fully expect several of the prospects ranked lower than those 4 to overtake them this year, but I don’t really know which ones will do so. I guess I’m not as prepared to bullishly support certain particular unknowns over others.

I think JD Martinez is underrated. All he does is hit. I hope they move him along steadily. I wouldn’t have a major problem with a ranking that had the upside unknown guys like Meyer or Ferreira or Nash ahead of him. But I like him enough, and think those “upside” guys are very unproven and full of concerns.

Greenwalt isn’t great but he is young and pitched decently well. You seem to think that I have 22-29 ordered poorly I guess. I think it is more that I am not nearly as high on the real unproven guys as you are, except for Nash. I can’t understand why you’d give up on a power project but have such faith in a project like Meyer. They have equally low chances to make a ML impact in my opinion, and I can’t see a good reason to place them far apart from each other.

Altuve could be lower I suppose. He is only 5-5 or 5-6, but he was very impressive for his age. I think you either leave him off the list entirely because you don’t believe someone that small can play major league second base, or you put him around where I have him.

What do you like about Cespedes and Nevarez that you don’t like about Meszaros? He was very good in the AFL after a shaky start (15:3 K:BB in 11.2IP - 0.94 WHIP). He had a little bit of an adjustment problem moving from A to AA, but overall he pitched pretty well. I suppose he is somewhat interchangeable with Cespedes or Nevarez, but I like him more.

Pellegrini is underrated. He is hits for power. He steals bases. He might not hit for a high enough average to be an effective major leaguer, but he walks a lot and doesn’t have an overly excessive K rate.

That is very different from my list. Reineke was traded. Bazardo is no longer a prospect.

Bono was also traded.

and paulino is no longer a prospect either.