Rangers Farm Report

Rookie: 3-9 since last check-in, 18-28 overall, 8 GB
LHP Thomas Ireland (21): 8.0 IP, 8 H, 4 R, BB, 11 SO, 1.42 ERA
RHP Dianye Florentino (23): 5.2 IP, 2 H (HR), 3 R, BB, HBP, 6 SO, 5.87 ERA
RHP Ivan Oviedo (20): 6.2 IP, 4 H (HR), 4 R, 4 BB, 6 SO, 5.82 ERA
RHP Skylar Hales (21): 2.1 IP, 4 H (2 HR), 3 R, 4 SO, 11.57 ERA

Five of Texas’s 11 pitchers signed from the 2023 draft have debuted professionally. Last year’s total was zero. 2022’s low-key version of the de-load program was apparently a one-year phenomenon. The five:

Skylar Hales (4th round): listed above
Izack Tiger (7th): one scoreless inning, two hits, one strikeout
Paul Bonzagni (12th): one scoreless inning at the complex, now at Down East
William Privette (13th): 1.2 IP, one hit, five walks, three runs
Josh Trentadue (14th): one scoreless inning, two strikeouts.

Tiger is 22, the others are 21.

Ireland was drafted in 2021’s 13th round but was inactive until this summer. He’s fanned 29 versus only five walks in 25.1 innings.

OF Wyatt Langford (21): 5-13, 3 2B, HR (1), BB, SB (1), .385/.429/.846
OF Sebastian Walcott (17): 6-35, 2 2B, HR (7), 6 BB, .293/.354/.569
IF Echedry Vargas (18): 13-44, 4 2B, HR (7), BB, 9 SB (14), .309/.375/.521
OF Wady Mendez (18): 11-30, 4 2B, HR (1), 3 BB, 3 SB (4), .267/.360/.392
OF Jose De Jesus (18): 11-38, 3 2B, 3B, 9 BB, 2 HBP, 0 SB (11), .229/.337/.350

Langford is in Hickory now.

Walcott endured a ten-game stretch in which he struck out 24 times in 43 trips to the plate (56%). Nevertheless, he still ranks fifth in the league in slugging.

Vargas leads the team with 21 extra-base hits. His 14 doubles rank second in the league.

The only 2023 pick active in Arizona is 11th-rounder Max Martin, who was 2-4 with a homer in last night’s pro debut. Catcher Julian Brock (8th) is the only drafted position player awaiting his turn.