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Post by okin15 on Aug 11, 2015 22:29:58 GMT -5
the pitching isn't that good. it means few wins, whether at the minor or mlb levels.
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Post by quintanariffic on Aug 12, 2015 0:12:21 GMT -5
Our farm system started the year with a ton of arms at Pawtucket, a black hole in Portland, a couple of prospects in Salem and a bunch of prospects in Greenville. Over the course of the summer, Pawtucket got raided, Portland took the best from Salem, but still remains a substandard team. Salem took some of the best from Greenville, but it was not enough to replace what went to Portland. And Greenville morphed into prospect city for position players with no arms to speak of once kopech got suspended. it isn't that the farm system is poor, because it is really loaded. It is more a product of the current distribution of some quality position players in greenville and Portland, but no pitching there and some quality arms in Salem and Pawtucket, but no quality position players. Not the point. Prospects don't win games/leagues in the minors b/c there are usually only 1-2 of them per team and they don't often have the gaudiest numbers. That distinction usually belongs to the much larger group of over-aged non-prospects that most teams stock their minor league clubs with in order to provide organizational depth. So the implication that the current lack of success in the W/L department is a function of over-rated prospects is, to be charitable, off-base.
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Post by ericmvan on Aug 12, 2015 0:47:17 GMT -5
No, you're missing the point, he's actually saying that because the teams are "bad" our prospects might be overrated. Never mind the fact that 95% of the players in the system, all of whom contribute to the win-loss records, aren't even considered when people do these farm system rankings. It's like saying Detroit isn't a poor city because it's in America which is the richest country in the world. Or better yet, if for some reason Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, Sam Walton, and Bill Gates all lived in Detroit, it would be like saying "I don't think those guys are as rich as they're made out to be, Detroit is one of the poorest cities in the country."
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Post by mgoetze on Aug 12, 2015 7:21:43 GMT -5
It's like saying Detroit isn't a poor city because it's in America which is the richest country in the world. Disagree - saying that Detroit isn't a poor city seems quite reasonable to me.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Aug 12, 2015 7:50:03 GMT -5
Sean Coyle has 19k's in 9 rehab games in the GCL. What gives?
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Post by cologneredsox on Aug 12, 2015 9:04:26 GMT -5
Nice to see Christopher Acosta doing better lately. Who knows, he with a high pedigree might be another pitcher who will let us dream about the coming years.
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Post by Smittyw on Aug 12, 2015 12:12:13 GMT -5
If Benintendi qualified in the NYPL, and it needs to be stressed that he doesn't, he would be 2nd in the league in OPS. You guys have it all wrong...the NYPL does not qualify for Benintendi's OPS.
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