Top 72 Rangers prospects: 2024 Midseason Update.

With a little twist on the format.

The Rangers farm system is not nearly as flush with high-end talent as it was a year and a week ago. Downturns are bound to happen when a team spends and wins like Texas has — big free agent splashes cost them four premium draft picks in 2022 and 2023, and big trades cost them more bankable prospects than that — but there’s more to it.

Graduating players like Wyatt Langford and Evan Carter from the very top of league-wide prospect lists is a good thing, of course. Trading Cole Ragans, Thomas Saggese, Tekoah Roby, and Luisangel Acuna helped produce a parade. But among the players the Rangers were hoping to see move onto national top-100 lists in their place, there have been far more underwhelming seasons in 2024 than breakouts. It’s led one national prospect analyst to drop the Rangers system to as low a spot in the league rankings as it’s been in years, and another publication to push it down nearly as precipitously.

But an interesting trend has developed.