Minor league results aren't always indicative of quality of system, though. For years the Pirates' farm teams generally won a lot, but it was because they were heavily stalked with experienced non-veterans...

Weren't the Fort Wayne Wizards a CBA team?

Minor league results aren't always indicative of quality of system, though.

They're certainly not a perfect indicator, but a system with a lot of talent is generally going to have a good record.

Yeah, but sometimes that's developed talent that has little chance of improving.

Of course, Baltimore's system will finish the year in the bottom third, with the slide starting Friday...

The Fort Wayne Wizards aren't even a baseball team anymore - they're the TinCaps now. Anyway, their CBA team was the Fury.

Put me strongly on the side of W/L record <> talent, in this context.

An organization that is aggressive in terms of promoting young players may have teams, particularly at the lower levels, that put up bad records despite having quite a bit of talent.

For example, the 1987 Gastonia Rangers, which went 58-82 (.414 winning percentage):

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=18788

That team had Sammy Sosa and Dean Palmer (both 18), Wilson Alvarez and Juan Gonzalez (both 17), Rey Sanchez and Roger Pavlik (both 19), plus future major leaguers Terry Matthews, Bill Haselman, Bob Malloy, and Wayne Rosenthal.

That's a pretty impressive collection of talent for a low-A squad.