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Monday, March 12, 2012
1. San Diego Padres
Top 11 Prospects List
System At a Glance: They might lack that one marquee name, but no system in baseball can boast of having as many players at the upper levels who project as average or better big leaguers.
2. Toronto Blue Jays
Top 11 Prospects List
System At a Glance: A ridiculous number of high-ceiling teenage arms to go with some elite up-the-middle talent.
3. St. Louis Cardinals
Top 11 Prospects List
System At a Glance: They’ve suddenly become a drafting and development beast, with plenty of help coming beginning in 2013.
4. Oakland Athletics
Top 11 Prospects List
System At a Glance: The rebuilding has begun with a greatly enriched farm system set up for a window that doesn’t exist until MLB gets off their hands in terms of a potential move.
5. Kansas City Royals
Top 11 Prospects List
System At a Glance: Down a bit due mostly to big league promotions, but some rebounds from the lefties that disappointed in 2011 would be nice.
Thanks to Googie.
Repoz
Posted: March 12, 2012 at 04:58 PM | 27 comment(s)
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1. Willie Mayspedes Posted: March 12, 2012 at 05:13 PM (#4079215)Oh good lord, the missed opportunity for an epic thread: They're 7th! Booooooooooo!
DAMMIT BOBM
They added about 80% of the prospects this offseason.
The Mike Adams trade actually helped more.
I'm very excited about the outlook of San Diego. Even as early as this year they might be competitive.
This pleases me.
(Though looking at the descriptions, I don't see that anybody except Toronto has a clearly better system. On the other hand, the teams that are not Toronto have good major league players on the field now.)
What's worse than this mediocre rating is that the Orioles had a pretty highly rated system not long ago. And those players are now in the major leagues, and just about every one is underperforming expectations. Under the circumstances, it's hard to get too excited about Bundy and Machado.
But I do, becuase despite everything, the Orioles are an exciting team to watch and I love rooting for them, and while they always end up being bad, it's never in exactly the way you expect.
Unfortunately it was Luhnow's work, and he's now with the Astros. Here's hoping Mozliak knows what to look for in a farm director and didn't just get lucky.
Under the new CBA, scouting is going to be at the highest premium of anything in baseball.
Yes, depending on whether the Dodgers new owners hire a saber GM, the Padres could dominate the NL West for most of the decade. I'd think the Dodgers new owners would be hiring a saber GM, though
What makes us think they won't trade their good players as soon as they become arb-eligible like the A's do? They traded A-Gone with what two years left on his deal, and that's when they were reasonably competitive. Latos was gone with several years left before free agency. Now their ownership seems up in the air. Save for a brief period in the late 90s, the Pads have been running things on the cheap ever since Ray Kroc died.
Because the city built them a new stadium so they wouldn't have to!
In the meantime, 4 of the AL Central teams are in the bottom 9. Go Royals!
The AL West has 4,6 and 7.
And 23 and 26.
That Astros thing is this year already? I have been watching way too much soccer.
And four of the five between 12 and 16. Talk about clustering.
Is a saber GM so armed to protect fans in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium or fight off hostile sports columnists?
If the reference is to a GM who uses statistics to help make decisions, is there an organization who does not have such a person, or, more likely, a room full of such people?
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