'Jaxon has been as good as we've got, and that's saying something, I think, on this pitching staff,' Hobbs said. Hobbs said Wiggins' strike percentage has improved this fall. Hobbs said the Razorbacks will start junior right-handed pitcher Jaxon Wiggins today and sophomore left-hander Hagen Smith on Thursday. 'I think that it's going to be a really good experience for our team from a competition perspective,' Hobbs said, 'but also just to kind of measure ourselves a little bit where we're at and what we need to work on.'

That is the case with the top-30 prospects who are on the roster, all of whom were drafted by the Rangers earlier this year - Pollard as a fifth-round draft pick out of Woodward Academy in College Park, Ga., Ramirez as a seventh-round draft pick out of Long Beach State and Gutierrez as an international draft pick from Venezuela. Hobbs said many of the Rangers who will travel to Arkansas are fresh out of high school or college, or are international players. 'It is also a good measuring stick for some of our guys to say, 'Hey, you know, maybe professional baseball is not as far away as I think it is.'' 'When you get a talented group of players like we're going to get with the Rangers, it's going to be a really good challenge,' Arkansas pitching coach Matt Hobbs said. Outfielder Anthony Gutierrez (16), shortstop Chandler Pollard (19) and right-handed pitcher Luis Ramirez (22) are ranked by Baseball America among the organization's 30 top prospects. The Rangers' 50-man roster includes players ranging from 17 to 24 years old and some highly rated prospects. The Rangers were scheduled to play at Oklahoma on Tuesday and are scheduled to host TCU at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on Friday. The scrimmages are part of a week-long college tour for the Rangers, who lost 8-1 at Oklahoma State on Monday. The teams are scheduled to play seven innings Thursday beginning at 4 p.m. The Razorbacks will host the Texas Rangers' instructional league team at Baum-Walker Stadium for a pair of scrimmages beginning with a nine-inning contest at 6 p.m. FAYETTEVILLE - The University of Arkansas' baseball team will challenge itself this week against similarly aged players in a different stage of their careers.

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