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Post by iakovos11 on May 13, 2018 6:50:21 GMT -5
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on May 13, 2018 15:52:15 GMT -5
Sox milb swept. In largely one-sided games
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Post by congusgambler33 on May 13, 2018 20:51:15 GMT -5
Swept 2 straight days..The future is not bright..They just plain stink. Losing is not a good habit to get into for the minor league system. Theo stopped that, but now we are back in that mode.
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Post by sibbysisti on May 14, 2018 8:29:39 GMT -5
Swept 2 straight days..The future is not bright..They just plain stink. Losing is not a good habit to get into for the minor league system. Theo stopped that, but now we are back in that mode. Many of the top prospects were traded to help the major league team. And Kimbrel, Sale and Pomeranz have more than justified those moves. Losing Groome to TJ didn't help the outlook. I'd hold off on the doom and gloom until after the draft and international signings. |
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Post by jimed14 on May 14, 2018 8:31:41 GMT -5
Winning is not the goal for the minor league system. Providing major league talent is.
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Post by James Dunne on May 14, 2018 8:35:19 GMT -5
Swept 2 straight days..The future is not bright..They just plain stink. Losing is not a good habit to get into for the minor league system. Theo stopped that, but now we are back in that mode. Many of the top prospects were traded to help the major league team. And Kimbrel, Sale and Pomeranz have more than justified those moves. Losing Groome to TJ didn't help the outlook. I'd hold off on the doom and gloom until after the draft and international signings. It's okay to be happy with the major league team and simultaneously frustrated that the minor league system is very much down right now. The Red Sox arguably don't have an active Top 200 prospect right now. It's going to be hard to supplement the major league roster with trades and when players like Pomeranz and Kimbrel get expensive this offseason, followed by Bogaerts and Sale the next offseason. No reason to sugarcoat it. |
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 14, 2018 9:31:43 GMT -5
^This
It's also ok to say it's been a brutal start to the season for the system without it being a bigger point about the state of the organization or any particular person or part of the front office (Dombrowski, player dev, amateur scouting) necessarily. I mean the two worst stories so far this year are ones they couldn't have predicted in Groome needing TJ and Chavis' suspension. (Understood there's an argument that those wouldn't have been the biggest stories if the system were stronger - I'm just saying you don't necessarily HAVE to get to the latter when you say the former.)
A bit of optimism: the worst prior to this that I remember the system being was probably mid-2011, when the top five was Kalish-Ranaudo-Doubront-Iglesias-Navarro (and there was a lot of argument behind the scenes about whether Ranaudo should have been that high, so I'll add that Middlebrooks was 6th). We now remember 2011 as when Xander Bogaerts became the first prospect in a long time to jump straight to Greenville from the DSL and when the Red Sox had what may have been one of the best drafts ever, full-stop. These things are often cyclical in good organizations. Yes, there's probably a reckoning coming of some sort in 2 years or so, but that's what MLB will probably be in the hard luxury tax cap era.
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