About Keith Law: 

 
I've been a baseball analyst and writer for ESPN since 2006, covering the game from the majors down to the best high school prospects, including an annual ranking of the top 100 prospects in the minor leagues for ESPN.com. I'm also an avid home cook and, of course, a huge Top Chef fan, blogging about the show, food, literature, boardgames, and other subjects at my personal site, the dish. My favorite season of Top Chef was, of course, Season 6, and like many of you I'd choose Richard Blais as my favorite cheftestant from any season (and not just because he made French toast lollipops on PBS Sprout, although that doesn't hurt!) Follow me on Twitter at @keithlaw for baseball and food commentary with a quarter-cup of sarcasm.

The penultimate episode of Top Chef: Texas takes place in Vancouver, which I suppose is now in Texas even though it's actually in British Columbia, which works out since 53% of Americans believe Canada is our 51st state. (The other 47% believe it's just a matter of time.) Although some of my readers have commented on the season as a whole seeming weak, I think the final four here are just as strong as the typical Voltaggio-free Top Chef season's top four would be, and the top tier is what really makes a great season of Top Chef for me. Here's my ranking of the four remaining chefs in order of their odds of winning, low to high, with scouting reports on each of them and grades using the same 20 (low) to 80 (high) scale baseball scouts employ when grading players.


First Up: Sarah