Top 72 Rangers prospects, 2025: Group 1 (1-12).
With a budding franchise talent at the top.
These deep dives on the farm system are supposed to offer unadulterated sports-hope, a dose of long-term optimism, an available and vitalizing distraction in the event of a skid at the big-league level.
As we reach the finish line, revealing the players occupying the top 12 spots in my ranking of the Rangers’ 72 best prospects, there’s a lot to dream on with this group, especially with the youngest player on this list — in fact, the fourth youngest of the 139 who have played on the Rangers farm this year — holding down the top perch in the system. For some, he might be zeroing in on a similar ranking among prospects in all 30 systems.
That said, there’s also a sobering note as we finalize this project by identifying the organization’s top dozen prospects. When I set my Top 72 in stone at the end of spring training, I knew one of the 12 would start the season on the Injured List. Today? Five of the 12 are down. For some, the shutdowns should be brief. And none of the injuries, as far as we know, do much to change the long-term picture for any of them. So that part is good.
But any lost development is a bummer.
Before we dive into the top 12 — six of whom arrived in the draft, five as international free agents, one via trade — if you’d like to look back at the other 60 I’ve ranked to get us to this point, have at it:
Group 6 (No. 61 through No. 72)
Group 5 (No. 49 through No. 60)
Group 4 (No. 37 through No. 48)
Group 3 (No. 25 through No. 36)
Group 2 (No. 13 through No. 24)
Time to put a bow on things. Here are my top 12 Texas Rangers prospects.