The team farm system rankings from ESPN and the Athletic both have the Rangers farm as middle of the pack
This week, both Kiley McDaniel of ESPN and Keith Law of the Athletic released their rankings of the farm systems of the 30 MLB teams. McDaniel provided a dollar value for each team’s farm, while Law broke the list into tiers. Each of them, though, had the Rangers’ farm as middle-of-the-pack.
McDaniel has the Rangers with the 16th best farm in MLB, putting a $192 million value on it, putting them in a cluster of teams from Miami at #15 to Pittsburgh at #20 that were valued at $179M to $197M, with at least $10M separating Miami from #14 Baltimore and Pittsburgh from #21 New York of the A.L. As a point of reference, the Dodgers are lapping everyone using McDaniel’s methodology, at $420M. The ChiSox were over $100M behind, at $313M, and no one else was even at $300M.
Law, meanwhile, has the Rangers in Tier 3 at #13. Tier 3 goes from the Rays at #9 to the Mets at #15. Law praises the big steps forward Sebastian Walcott, Kumar Rocker and Alejandro Rosario made last year, as well as the 2024 draft class.
The Rangers were the only middle-of-the-pack A.L. West team in Law’s rankings — Seattle is #1, while the A’s, Astros and Angels are #27, #29 and #30, respectively. McDaniel has Seattle at #7, while the A’s, Angels and Astros are #23, #28 and #30, respectively.